Selenium is a powerful tool for automation testing, allowing you to interact with web pages and perform various tasks, such as opening URLs, clicking buttons, and filling forms. As a popular open-source framework, Selenium supports various scripting languages, including Python. By using Python and Selenium WebDriver, you can simplify your web testing processes and gain … Read more
As a Python developer interested in building Telegram bots for pure fun and enjoyment, I bring you my curated list of top Python libraries that powerfully streamline bot creation. 1. python-telegram-bot The python-telegram-bot is one of the most straightforward libraries for building bots for the Telegram app. Easy installation: 👇 pip install python-telegram-bot –upgrade It … Read more
Method 1: Speedtest-cli To measure your Internet speed with Python, you can use the Speedtest-cli method. This Python library provides a command-line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net. It performs a comprehensive test, providing download speed, upload speed, and latency data. First, install the speedtest-cli library using: pip install speedtest-cli The following example can … Read more
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You can get the YouTube thumbnail if you don’t want to create and use an API key from Google with this simple trick: YouTube uses a consistent URL pattern for their video thumbnails, which is: https://img.youtube.com/vi/<video_id>/maxresdefault.jpg The <video_id> is the part after “watch?v=” in the YouTube video link. For example, consider the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5I55aOgX2o … Read more
Method 1: PyTube To download a YouTube video using PyTube, install the library with pip install pytube, import the YouTube object from pytube, instantiate the YouTube object with your video URL, get the highest resolution stream of the video with youtube.streams.get_highest_resolution(), and download the video to your desired location using video.download(‘/path/to/download’). Ensure to replace ‘/path/to/download’ … Read more
You can automate publishing a post on WordPress using Python by using the WordPress REST API. Here is a basic outline of how you could accomplish this: Replace ‘http://your-site-url’, ‘your-username’, and ‘your-application-password’ with your WordPress site URL, your WordPress username, and the application password you generated. ⚡ Warning: Basic Auth sends the username and password … Read more
When uploading a blog post on a WordPress blog in Python using /wp-json/wp/v2/posts, how do I set the category? You can set the category for a post using the WordPress REST API by specifying the ‘categories’ field in your request body. This field should be a list of category IDs. Here’s a simple Python example … Read more
You can use the re module in Python to use regular expressions. Here’s an example of how you can use it to find <h1>…</h1> in a string: The output is ‘My First Heading’: In this example, the re.findall() function returns all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string, as a list of strings. The string is … Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, known as EDGAR, serves as a rich source of information. This comprehensive database houses financial reports and statements that companies are legally required to disclose, such as a quarterly report filed by institutional investment managers. However, when attempting to extract data from … Read more
Setting up the Environment Before diving into web scraping with Python, set up your environment by installing the necessary libraries. First, install the following libraries: requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas. These packages play a crucial role in web scraping, each serving different purposes.✨ To install these libraries, click on the previously provided links for a full … Read more
From April 1st through August 14th, I tracked everything I ate on cronometer.com as part of a weight loss challenge. Overall I lost almost 25 pounds at a rate of 1.2 pounds per week. I always wondered what I could learn if I could scrape that data and get it into a Jupyter Notebook. In … Read more