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by Jake232 13y ago
Thanks! I mentioned BeautifulSoup existed very briefly in the lxml section in prerequisites. I just added a short section on CSS Selectors, you can actually use lxml with them. I'll add a little more info with BeautifulSoup and PyQuery
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by Jake232 13y ago
I've used Scrapy previously, and agree it's a good tool in the right situation. It could just be me, but I prefer more control, and using the requests library gave me that. I ran into some obscure problems when wanting to use &#x2
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by Jake232 13y ago
Going to add a section on PyQuery, thanks!
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by Jake232 13y ago
Never used it, but looks useful. I'll add a note regarding it. Thanks.
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by Jake232 13y ago
Hey, article author here. I've done extensive scraping in both Python and Ruby, as I wrote most of the scraping / crawling code at http://serpiq.com , so I can chip in. Overall, I prefer Python. That is pretty much sole
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Python web scraping(jakeaustwick.me)
138 points by Jake232 13y ago|62 comments
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by Jake232 13y ago
Any further discussion on the Bloom FIlter anywhere? (an issue, etc).
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by Jake232 13y ago
Second year University of Hull compsci student here, would just like to thank you for this - it's so much more efficient to use than the official intranet version.
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by Jake232 13y ago
Also seeing this. Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57 OS X
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by Jake232 13y ago
I think you should be able to incr/decr by more than 1. Maybe allow http://arbitrarycounter.com/vb/fruit/apples+N where N can be any integer > 0
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by Jake232 13y ago
I feel people have become reliant on GitHub though. They use the web interface to do daily tasks. They like the one click fork to move a repo to their own account. The problem is, on a daily basis when you're looking for an open-source
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by Jake232 13y ago
Seems back up.
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GitHub is down(status.github.com)
13 points by Jake232 13y ago|8 comments
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Processing the UK's real-time traffic data with Python(rjw57.github.io)
5 points by Jake232 13y ago|0 comments
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by Jake232 13y ago
So the customer doesn't know the order came from amazon, or the true price of the product? I'm guessing this is aimed at resellers. They likely wouldn't want the end-user knowing this info.
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by Jake232 13y ago
Great, however I can't help but think that 10minutes spent making the response AJAX would make the app much more user-friendly/responsive and easier to iterate through changes quickly.
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by Jake232 14y ago
Perfect! Thanks!
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by Jake232 14y ago
Stripe support would be awesome
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by Jake232 14y ago
Although devise is by far the most popular, by looking at rubygems[1] it seems AuthLogic still is fairly widely used. [1] http://rubygems.org/gems/authlogic
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by Jake232 14y ago
https://status.github.com/#
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by Jake232 14y ago
This is a awesome post, thanks for sharing.
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“Growth Hacking” is BS(layeredthoughts.com)
105 points by Jake232 14y ago|53 comments
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by Jake232 14y ago
Sinatra really isn't working.
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by Jake232 14y ago
Have you considered integrating with the GitHub API, and adding customers details to the repo upon purchase? (if they want). That way, it makes it easier for customers to submit bugs to you, talk about suggestions, and even provide their ow
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by Jake232 14y ago
Also experiencing this.
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by Jake232 14y ago
It's already happened. Site is down ;)
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by Jake232 14y ago
Nice fist post. For anyone interested, he's another awesome guide to Rails Caching. Worth a read too. - http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rail...
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by Jake232 14y ago
Yea, Linode support both. Thanks.
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by Jake232 14y ago
Any possibility of supporting Linode? I haven't looked into it, but I'd imagine it's possible and Linode is a awesome provider.
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by Jake232 15y ago
Fine for me in Chrome 18 on OS X Lion.

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