Snipplr - mandric

(Python) Scrape twitterlocal and save to Django model

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:20:58 GMT

going to use twitterlocal to play around a bit with pygooglechart.

(PHP) Minimal PHP Controller URL dispatch

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:30:18 GMT

Very minimal. Some homegrown API seeds from a while ago. Just posting for use as some php examples.

(Bash) Scrape Gummy

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:23:02 GMT

It all starts with gummy-stuff.

(Bash) Scrape NYSE

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:21:28 GMT

More gibberish.

(Bash) Scrape Yahoo Finance

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:19:25 GMT

Not sure why I'm posting this madness. Bash can be good for some things though. I think part of the reason I used bash was because I was calling alot of external commands.

(Bash) Bootstrap a Django setup

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:07:41 GMT

This is meant to be run as root, so do it at your own risk. It's very raw and needs error checking, but works. I run this script to get new django sites off the ground in a few minutes.

(Bash) get screenshot with mplayer

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:28:03 GMT

Start mplayer with -vf screenshot, and press 's' when you want to capture a frame.

(Bash) Editing files from a find result

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:54:07 GMT

find command just returns a list of HTML files that have 'search_str' in it, vim takes a list of files.

(Bash) Monitor process id with dtruss on Leopard

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:51:36 GMT

(Bash) Split media with mplayer

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:50:10 GMT

(Bash) editing command output in vim

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:45:49 GMT

finds files with a specific string and loads em up in vim. Secret is backticks. vim happily deals with lists of files.

(Bash) sync a file or dir to remote location

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:39:47 GMT

The -P handles partial transfers, I'm using this for big audio/video files.

(Perl) Backup a flickr photoset

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:20:39 GMT

(Bash) edit svn ignore properties on a directory

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:14:31 GMT

this launches vi so you can add the files/dirs you want to ignore. i'm not happy.