Archive for September, 2009

Scrape Digg Search Results Python Script

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Digg is by far the most popular social news site on the internet. With it’s simple “thumbs up” system the users of the site promote the most interesting and high quality stores and the best of those make it to the front page. What you end up with is a filtered view of the most [...]

SEOCheck: Track Your Google Position Over Time

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Have you ever wanted to track and assess your SEO efforts by seeing how they change your position in Google’s organic SERP? With this script you can now track and chart your position for any number of search queries and find the position of the site/page you are trying to rank. This will allow you [...]

Python Twitter API Library Reviews and Samples

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

There are many Twitter API libraries available for Python. I wanted to find out which one was the best and what the strengths and weaknesses of each are. However there are too many out there to find and review all of them. Instead here’s a bunch of the most popular Python Twitter API wrappers with [...]

Source Code Available on Bitbucket

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Someone asked me to make the source code available in a repository somewhere. One place to grab all the scripts I’ve shared on this blog. Well I’m starting to make them available on bitbucket.org. So far thirteen scripts have been published to the repository and are available using Mercurial (hg) or through the web interface. [...]

List the Links in Your Twitter Timeline Python Script

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

This is a simple Twitter Python script that checks your friends time-line and prints out any links that have been posted. In addition it visits each of the URLs and finds the actual title of the destination page and prints that along side. This simple script demonstrates an easy way to gather some of the [...]

Python Web Crawler Script

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Here’s a simple web crawling script that will go from one url and find all the pages it links to up to a pre-defined depth. Web crawling is of course the lowest level tool used by Google to create its multi-billion dollar business. You may not be able to compete with Google’s search technology but [...]

Google Translate API Python Script

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Ok, so this isn’t my script but it’s a much nicer version of the one I wrote that scrapes the actual Google translate website to do the same thing. I’d like to thank Ashish Yadav for writing and sharing this. Translating text is an easy way to create variations of content that is recognized as [...]

Meetup202 Sponsored by Neverblue

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Last night I attended an event here in Vancouver sponsored by neverblue ads. It was a chance to meet my affiliate manager in person to get some of his tips for taking things to the next level. I was also able to meet a ton of other affiliates and find out what was working for [...]

Amazon BrowseNode Browser

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I’m working on a project that required a way to iteratively go through Amazon BrowseNodes. To do that I wanted to do a breadth first search through the tree and came up with a rather nice way to do that in Python. There are a few resources that can be useful for finding browsenodes. The [...]

Download Images From Flickr With Python

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Flickr has an amazing library of images and a stellar API for accessing and easily downloading them. I wanted to make use of their API to start downloading a collection of images to use on a future website project and so I started looking for a nice Python script to help me do it. I [...]