Advanced techniques for customizing element screenshots in Playwright, including DOM manipulation and image preprocessing.
A technical tutorial on web scraping and text analysis using R and ggplot2 to analyze descriptions of US Wilderness Areas.
A programmer's guide to automating a badminton court booking system using Selenium and Python to secure time slots.
A technical tutorial on using R and the rvest package to scrape data from multiple web pages, including handling pagination.
Explores user-built alternatives like Nitter and Invidious that reclaim the web from corporate platforms by offering ad-free, privacy-focused interfaces.
A tutorial on building an automated stock checker for gaming consoles using Playwright, Azure Functions, and Twilio for notifications.
A tutorial on building and scheduling a Python web scraper to run automatically using GitHub Actions, including emailing results.
Learn how to monitor webpage changes using Home Assistant, checking ETag headers or content hashes to trigger automations.
Part 3 of a tutorial series on building a bot that checks for new YouTube videos and automatically tweets the links using Python and Twitter's API.
A PowerShell script to check the version and security status of WordPress sites by parsing HTML and RSS feeds.
A technical guide on building a YouTube-to-Twitter bot, focusing on moving channel data into a database and extracting recent video uploads.
A technical guide on building a bot that tweets new YouTube videos, starting with fetching subscription data via the YouTube API.
A guide on how to automate posting Instagram Stories using Python and an unofficial API library, including code examples.
Answers common questions about data science in business, covering requirements, model interpretability, web scraping, and team roles.
A JavaScript snippet to download multiple images from a web page with a timeout to manage browser limitations.
A developer details a tricky middleware bug in a Clojure web scraping framework that caused character encoding issues due to header casing.
A developer creates a bookmarklet to bypass Instagram's login prompt and re-enable scrolling on the web version.
A technical guide on how to programmatically extract detailed metadata for any iOS app from the Apple App Store using its public API.
A personal request for help finding a short-term sublet in NYC after a last-minute cancellation.
A guide to building a polite web crawler that respects robots.txt, manages crawl frequency, and avoids overloading servers, with an example in .NET.
