Archive for August, 2009

My Python FTP Deploy Script

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

I schedule all my scripts to run on a WebFaction server. That gives me excellent up time, and the ability to install my own programs and python libraries. So far they have proved to be a kick-ass web hosting service. I needed a way to push code updates to my scripts up to the server [...]

Understanding the Amazon Product Advertising API

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The Amazon Product Advertising API allows you to to do a lot of stuff. Using their REST interface you can browse the entire catalogue of Amazon products, get the prices pictures, descriptions and reviews for just about everything. It’s also possible to use Amazon’s shopping cart. Using this API it is possible to create you’re [...]

Getting CPA statistics from Neverblue

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Neverblue is a CPA network that I have found to be one of the better ones out there. If you are not familiar with the CPA side of internet marketing it’s where you get paid for each person you refer that performs a certain action (CPA = Cost Per Action) The action could be anything [...]

Running Python Code in Windows Batch File Trick

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I found this really neat bit of .bat file magic that will let you save your python script code in a .bat file and run it in windows just like any other script. The nice thing about this is that you don’t have to create a separate “launch.bat” file with one “start python script.py” line [...]

Reliable Python Hosting

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I have been writing a lot of python code to do automated tasks for me. Several times a day I have scripts that are getting data from different sources and pushing out data to different sites that I maintain. Reliable Python hosting is important for my success in my online businesses. Up until now I [...]

Amazon Product Advertising API From Python

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Amazon has a very comprehensive associate program that allows you to promote just about anything imaginable for any niche and earn commission for anything you refer. The size of the catalog is what makes Amazon such a great program. People make some good money promoting Amazon products. There is a great Python library out there [...]

Finding inlink information from Yahoo! in Python

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Inlinks (aka backlinks) are an important aspect of your SEO strategy. They are the ways that people will find your website and they are an indicator to search engines that your website is important and should rank well. So it is important to keep an eye on this statistic for your website. There is a [...]

Get Your ClickBank Transactions Into Sqlite With Python

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Clickbank is an amazing service that allows anyone to easily to either as a publisher create and sell information products or as an advertiser sell other peoples products for a commission. Clickbank handles the credit card transactions, and refunds while affiliates can earn as much as 90% of the price of the products as commission. [...]

Python Feedburner Awareness API Script

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I spent some time trying to find a snippet of example code that used Feedburner’s Awareness API with Python but I Google wasn’t much help. So I put one together for you. One thing that I didn’t realize about feedburner stats is that if the feed publicly displays a chicklet on the site (like mine) [...]

Scrape Yahoo Search Results Page

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Ok, even though Yahoo search is on the way out and will be replace by the search engine behind Bing. That transition won’t happen until sometime in 2010. Until then Yahoo still has 20% of the search engine market share and it’s important to consider it as an important source of traffic for your websites. [...]