Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:12:21 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/65894/scrapy-pipeline-class-to-store-scraped-data-in-mongodb <p>In connection with my [poetry spider](http://snipplr.com/view/65893/a-simple-spider-using-scrapy/), this scrapy pipeline class facilitates storing the scraped data to a MongoDB database.</p> Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:06:34 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/65894/scrapy-pipeline-class-to-store-scraped-data-in-mongodb https://snipplr.com/view/65893/a-simple-spider-using-scrapy <p>A simple spider using the [scrapy module](http://scrapy.org/) to get the text, title, url, author, and date of some poems. Although this is written with poems in mind, with some minor customization, it can be applied to a wider variety of scraping projects where the data desired is not dynamically generated.</p> Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:54:57 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/65893/a-simple-spider-using-scrapy https://snipplr.com/view/57898/password-strength-checker <p>This is based on the JavaScript snippet at the snipplr URL listed. It in turn referenced a page that is no longer available. So I have decided to make my pythonification of the JavaScript available for others instead of hoarding it.</p> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:03:02 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/57898/password-strength-checker