Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Articles on API
Code Challenge 27 – PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper – Review
By PyBites Team on 18 July 2017
In this article we review last week’s PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper code challenge.
Code Challenge 27 – PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper
By PyBites Team on 11 July 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! Love or hate Reddit, it has a lot of good data to work with. This week we have you write an app of your choice using the Reddit API. Have fun!
Building a Karma Bot with Python and the Slack API
By Bob Belderbos on 25 June 2017
We love Slack! But what if we can make it even cooler? Imagine: you are geeking out with your fellow developers on Slack and you want to give them credit. Or you can write “stupidsubject–” and it automagically shows “stupidsubject’s karma decreased to -2”. Enter Karma Bot. This is nothing new but building one myself was a great learning exercise and a fun tool we use on our Slack now.
Twitter digest 2017 week 24
By PyBites Team on 18 June 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Parsing Twitter Geo Data and Mocking API Calls by Example
By Bob Belderbos on 17 June 2017
“Is this Bob or Julian?!” … yeah tweeting from our shared @pybites Twitter account can be confusing! So I made a little script to parse the location of our tweets. Then I extended it to make it testable. I wrote a decorator to cache a couple of API outputs to be used with the unittest.mock patch decorator I learned about. A simple script turned into a good learning exercise.
Code Challenge 19 – Post to Your Favorite API – Review
By PyBites Team on 22 May 2017
This week was pretty busy due to PyCon, but what an amazing conference! A lot to absorb which we will digest in the upcoming articles. First our regular schedule though: review of last week’s challenge: post to your favorite API.
Code Challenge 19 – Post to Your Favorite API
By PyBites Team on 15 May 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! This week part 2 of APIs: post to your favorite API. Enjoy
Code Challenge 18 – Get Recommendations – Review
By PyBites Team on 15 May 2017
Before moving onto the new challenge let’s review last week’s challenge. It’s never late to sign up, just fork our challenges repo and start coding.
Learning Python by Building a Wisdom Quotes App
By Dante Septem on 9 May 2017
In this guest post Dante tells us about his Wisdom of the Ages app he built for PyBites code challenge 16 (reviewed here). The best way to learn Python is to build something and we are proud of our community achieving just that.