In yet another of my series of web scrapers this time I’m posting some code that will scrape links from delicious.com. This is a pretty cool way of finding links that other people have found relevant. And this could be used to generate useful content for visitors.
You could easily add this to [...]
Today I posted a list of some of my collected links for developing Python programs. This body of links has been useful for me over the last year or two as a resource for keeping all my python development information stored and categorized in one place. It’s also been great for sharing with some [...]
Today’s script will perform a search on Technorati and then scrape out the search results. It is useful because Technorati is up to date about things that are happening in the blogosphere. And that gives you a way to tune into everything going on there.
The scope of the blogosphere matched with Technoratis ability [...]
Sometimes it’s useful to know where all the back-links to a website are coming from.
As a competitor it can give you information about how your competition is promoting their site. You can shortcut the process of finding the good places to get links from, and who might be a client or a [...]
I noticed that several accounts are spamming the twitter trends. Go to twitter.com and select one of the trends in the right column. You’ll undoubtedly see some tweets that are blatantly inserting words from the trending topics list into unrelated ads.
I was curious just how easy it would be to get the trending [...]
Wordpress is probably the best blogging software out there. This site runs on Wordpress. It’s easy to install, amazingly extensible with themes and plugins and very easy to use. In fact the vast majority of the websites I maintain run on Wordpress.
wordpresslib is a Python library that makes it possible to programatically [...]
If you’re not familiar with Ezine articles they are basically niche content about 200 to 2000 words long that some ‘expert’ writes and shares for re-publishing the content under the stipulation that it includes the signature (and usually a link) for the author. Articles are great from both the advertiser and publisher perspective since the [...]
Sometimes is can be quite useful to be able to translate content from one language to another from within a program. There are many compelling reasons why you might like the idea of auto translating text. The reason why I’m interested in writing this script is that it is useful to sometimes create [...]
This script will create an image on the fly of a users most recent twitter message. It could be used as an email or forum signature or any place that allows you to embed a custom image such as on a blog or website.
I saw a website that did this the other day and wanted [...]
There are a number of services out there such as Google Cash Detective that will go run some searches on Google and then save the advertisements so you can track who is advertising for what keywords over time. It’s actually a very accurate technique for finding out what ads are profitable.
After tracking a [...]
