We did it! #100DaysOfCode is done: 5K lines of code, 100 scripts. Just on the day PyBites turns 200 days. In this article we will share our learning on this major project and announce our next 100 days effort …
Articles on automation
Code Challenge 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper – Review
By PyBites Team on 12 June 2017
In this article we review last week’s Packt free ebook code challenge. We really scratched our own itch building both a notification service and an ebook download manager.
Code Challenge 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper
By PyBites Team on 5 June 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! This week we will do some web scraping of Packt’s daily free ebook, sending out daily notifications. This week we even have a unique opportunity to sponsor the Python Community, read on … and happy coding!
How to Create Your Own Steam Game Release Notifier
By Julian Sequeira on 19 May 2017
In this post we demonstrate ways in which you can parse common data formats used in Python.
How to Write a Simple Slack Bot to Monitor Your Brand on Twitter
By Bob Belderbos on 25 April 2017
In this article I show you how to monitor Twitter and post alerts to a Slack channel. We built a nice tool to monitor whenever our domain gets mentioned on Twitter. The slacker and twython modules made this pretty easy. We also use configparser and logging.
Twitter digest 2017 week 16
By PyBites Team on 23 April 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Behind the Scenes of PyBites – a Blog for Passionate Pythonistas (Post #100 Special)
By PyBites Team on 18 April 2017
Python is hot according to Dice. It’s an easy language to learn, has an elegant design and is widely used. In this article we proudly present our now 4 months journey into building PyBites. It’s a reflection of what we achieved and lessons learned. We hope to inspire fellow developers to start their own venture. It is very rewarding!
How we Automated our 100DaysOfCode Daily Tweet
By Bob Belderbos on 5 April 2017
In this article I show you a way to automatically tweet your #100DaysOfCode Challenge progress. This saves you some extra time to focus on the coding. Isn’t that all what matters?
How to Build a Simple Slack Bot
By Bob Belderbos on 4 April 2017
I was playing with Slack’s Real Time Messaging API the other day. Building a bot is pretty easy. In this article a simple example.
Send Advanced Emails with Python MIME Submodules
By Julian Sequeira on 1 February 2017
Learn how to send richer emails with Python and the MIME Submodules