Archive for September, 2010

Working on Autoblog Samurai Competitor

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

After seeing the successful launch of the Autoblog Samurai product launch come through my email box over the last week I thought it might be time to dig up my scripts that I wrote several years ago to attempt the same thing. Over the past few years I have run a couple of autoblogs but [...]

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Python Imap Gmail

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Connecting to a Google Gmail account is easy with Python using the built in imaplib library. It’s possible to download, read, mark and delete messages in your gmail account by scripting it. Here’s a very simple script that prints out the latest email received: #!/usr/bin/env python   import imaplib M=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(’imap.gmail.com’, 993) M.login(’myemailaddress@gmail.com’,'password’) status, count = [...]

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Looking a Scrapy

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

As much as I’ve found the basic webscraping to be really simple with urllib and BeautifulSoup. It leaves somethings to be desired. The BeautifulSoup project has languished and recent versions have switched the HTML parser for one that is less able to manage with the poorly encoded pages on real websites. Scrapy is a full [...]

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Scraping the ClickBank Marketplace

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

I got an email the other day from Frank Kern who was pimping another make money online product from his cousin Trey. The Number Effect is a DVD containing the results of an experiment where he created an affiliate link to every one of the 12,000 products for sale on ClickBank and sent paid (PPV) [...]

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Django Dash 2010

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Django Dash is a 48 hour competition where teams from all over the world build a django based web application. You can see the finished web applications at http://djangodash.com/. All the projects were required to be open sourced and committed to on either github.com or bitbucket.org. The cool thing about that is you can see [...]

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