You've heard of the "blue wave," but do you know what it means? Check out our latest interactive visualization which demonstrates how gerrymandering is a political strategy that increases the likelihood of winning seats in exchange for increased risk.
https://t.co/eRAgZCsXtJ
We recently launched a public Slack community for discussions about web scraping, and now we're releasing a how-to guide for setting up a public slack community with an open invite form. It uses Google Forms behind the scenes, so no backend is required!
https://t.co/hFWG1EYXEZ
We're releasing an exciting new open source project today called User-Agents! It allows you to generate random user agents and browser fingerprints based on real-world data that's updated daily using an automated @CircleCI build.
https://t.co/qpEnanCGyX
Python's while-else and for-else constructs are often unknown to even very experienced Python developers, and can be quite controversial. Find out why they actually make a lot of sense, but you shouldn't use them anyway! #Python
https://t.co/DkzGtAK41Y
Parsing a sitemap to see an overview of a site's is often the first step towards scraping a website. This guide demonstrates how to do so using nothing more than bash and common command-line utilities like curl, xargs, sed, grep, and gunzip.
https://t.co/vYE3ZwO6lc
The creator of F5Bot joins us to explain the technical details behind downloading and searching through millions of Reddit comments and posts in real-time each day. Be sure to check it out! @codeplea#F5Bot
https://t.co/rzmLHWMg4G
We have a very special new article today! It's an in-depth look at what makes Power Assert out favorite JavaScript assertion library, and a short interview with the project's author, Takuto Wada. #PowerAssert@t_wada
https://t.co/uOwJ1Uu3VT
A great introduction to ES6 Proxies, this guide explains in detail how they work while pushing the limits of JavaScript to recreate Python's negative indexing and extended slicing syntax. #javascript#python#slice
https://t.co/xRakqAMP2o
We're launching a new public Slack community for developers to discuss web scraping! You can click below to get an invite, we look forward to chatting with you!
https://t.co/EGUpZQeN8a
Take a look at how some malicious websites have started tricking browsers into making repeated notification requests. They use infinite redirects to prevent the browsers from blocking additional notification requests. @darkpatterns#darkpatterns
https://t.co/B36GRbw4R2
Part two of our series on audio transcoding with AWS Lambda is now ready! In this second post, we walk through the process of building a YouTube MP3 downloader bookmarklet with Exodus, FFmpeg, Express, and, of course, AWS Lambda.
https://t.co/S5ZwiGNOG9
In our latest article, we walk through the process of building and deploying an AWS Lambda function for transcoding audio. The cost savings over AWS Elastic Transcoder are huge!
https://t.co/VVDXjnJeEU
We've just released an exciting new browser automation framework based on the Web Extensions API called Remote Browser! Check out the interactive tour to learn more about how it works and what it can do.
https://t.co/54SC9dohQy