Author Archives: Roy

Parsing Javascript and APIs with ChompJS and JMESPath

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Roy

I just published a new webscraping video – Parsing Javascript and APIs with ChompJS and JMESPath. Check it out below! Continue reading →

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Scraping Dynamic Websites WITHOUT Selenium

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Roy

I’ve published a YouTube video to cover troubleshooting tips when dealing with dynamic websites, a topic I covered here before. Check it out below! I’ve been really enjoying making video/streaming content like this, if you want to see more of … Continue reading →

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Getting Names Of Your Patreon Patrons From The Patreon API

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Roy

A common Patreon reward is to list patron names in the credits for your creations – on my patreon I have this on any tier more than €3. In order to implement this I used the patreon api python package … Continue reading →

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Patreon Announcement + Dicecord-CoD Prefix Update

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Roy

I’m excited to announce that I am on Patreon now! If you want to support any of my current or future projects please pop by! I’m hoping I can use this to offset my Dicecord/blog hosting costs, as well as … Continue reading →

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Scrapy-GUI updated to version 1.1

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Roy

Scrapy-GUI updated to version 1.1. Continue reading →

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Using Scrapy-GUI In Your Scrapy Shell

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Roy

I spent my Christmas break working on my first python package – Scrapy-GUI. This package is an addon for the scrapy shell that gives you a graphical user interface for writing and testing scrapy queries and processors. This blog is going to focus on how the tools tab works and how you can utilise it to help build your scrapy web spiders. Continue reading →

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Are your selectors not returning expected content when webscraping?

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Roy

I’ve taken a shine to posting on the /r/learnpython subreddit recently and I have a noticed a trend over the last few days – quite a lot of people seem to be using the Holiday break to learn how to … Continue reading →

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I got a QR Code Tattoo!

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Roy

I got my first ever tattoo this week. This is something I had been considering for a long while – about 5 years. I wanted something that reflected my obsession with technology, something that looked cool but also had a … Continue reading →

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ELI5 Tutorial: Unit Testing with unittest

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Roy

I lied in my last post. I have decided to do one more ELI5, this time for Unit Tests. I decided to do this to help my classmates – Google is running a code retreat tomorrow at my university and … Continue reading →

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ELI5 Tutorial: Subclassing Objects in Python

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Roy

So, this ELI5 has been sitting in my drafts folder for a while. Not sure how that happened there! Woops! After some delay, here is the final EL15 for now – how to subclass an object!

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