Earnings Calendar
A few days ago I wrote about a scraper for gathering economic calendar data. Well, I’m back again to write about another aspect of the same project: acquiring earnings calendar data.
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Avoiding Duplication
Avoiding data duplication is a persistent challenge with acquiring data from websites or APIs. You can try to brute force it: pull the data again and then compare it locally to establish whether it’s fresh or stale. But there are other approaches that, if supported, can make this a ... [...Read more...]
Downloading Files with Selenium
If you use Selenium for browser automation then at some stage you are likely to need to download a file by clicking a button or link on a website. Sometimes this just works. Other times it doesn’t. [...Read more...]
Economic Calendar
I needed an offline copy of an economic calendar with all of the major international economic events. After grubbing around the internet I found the Economic Calendar on Myfxbook which had everything that I needed.
Bypassing Cloudflare with Cloudscraper
Cloudflare is a service that aims improve the performance and security of websites. It operates as a content delivery network (CDN) to ensure faster load times and consequently better user experience. However, it also protects against online threats by filtering “malicious” traffic.
Web scraping requests are often deemed to be ...
Unpacking cURL Commands
cURL is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife for interacting with network protocols. But to be honest, I really only scratch the surface of what’s possible. Usually my workflow is something like this: Copy a cURL command from my browser’s Developer Tools.
Test out the cURL command in a ...
Release: openai-python 1.33.0
A new minor version of the openai-python package was released late on Friday 7 June 2024, only a couple of days after the last minor release. This release adds a chunking_strategy argument to the methods for adding files to vector stores. [...Read more...]
Locations from Google Map
This question on Stack Overflow was a fun challenge: extract the markers off an embedded Google Map.
Desert Island Docker: Python Edition
Over the years that I’ve been dabbling in public speaking I’ve generally developed a talk, presented it once and then moved on. However, I’ve noticed other speakers who give the same (or similar) talk at different events, where the talk evolves and improves over time. [...Read more...]
Logging like a Lumberjack
Sprinkling status messages across you code using print() statements can be a good temporary fix for tracking down issues in your code.
But it can get messy and there’s no way for you to selectively disable them. Sure you can redirect output to a file or /dev/null but ... [...Read more...]
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