Scraping the web with Scrapy

This month, Python Frederick learned about Scrapy, a tool used to read web pages and extract information from them. Our speaker was Micah Nordland, and he explained the core components of Scrapy and demoed how to use the tool to get data from website.

Micah’s presentation is available online at http://lucy.rehack.me/slides/scrapy/.

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Supercharging Vim: Using plugins

Vim is an extremely powerful text editor. With no setup, you can do amazing work, however, you can supercharge Vim by extending it with plugins. This blog series will show how to get the …

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Web frameworks shootout

The Python world is full of web frameworks. This post includes the Python Frederick video presentation comparing 5 popular Python web frameworks that I presented in October 2017.