I wanted to play around with a dataset and see what I could find out about it. I decided on analyzing the little bit of data that I could collect from Github without having to use an OAuth key, which limits it to just 300 events. If you want to follow along with my notebook check out the instructions here. This notebook was my submission for Code Challenge 47 – PyBites First Year in Data (Special).
Articles on requests
Fully Automate Login and Banner Generation with Selenium, Requests and Click
By Bob Belderbos on 20 August 2017
In part 3 of the PyBites Banner Generator article series I show you how to automatically generate a banner with Requests and Selenium.
Code Challenge 25 – Notification Service of Now Playing and Upcoming Movies – Review
By PyBites Team on 3 July 2017
In this article we review last week’s Notification Service of Now Playing and Upcoming Movies code challenge.
Using Python Requests on a Page Behind a Login
By Julian Sequeira on 9 June 2017
In this post I discuss using the requests module on web pages behind a login
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.
How to Download an XML File with Python
By Julian Sequeira on 4 May 2017
In this post I detail how to download an xml file to your OS and why it’s not as simple as you’d think
Learn Python by Coding for Yourself
By Julian Sequeira on 27 April 2017
In this post I discuss (with examples) why it’s important to learn Python by actually coding. It’s not enough to just read!
Best Practices for Compatible Python 2 and 3 Code
By Bob Belderbos on 22 March 2017
95% of most popular Python packages support Python 3. Maybe you are lucky and get to start fresh using Python 3. However as of last year Python 2.7 still reigns supreme in pip installs and at a lot of places 2.x is the only version you get to work in. I think writing Python 2 and 3 compatible code is an important skill, so lets check what it entails.
PyBites Module of the Week – Requests-cache for Repeated API Calls
By Bob Belderbos on 14 March 2017
Today a quick article on a nice caching module when working with APIs: Requests-cache.
Twitter digest 2017 week 03
By PyBites Team on 21 January 2017
On Saturdays we will share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) we found / tweeted during the week.