I saved money, time (and the environment) with Python

Introduction Admittedly, the title of this article is ambitious. So allow me to explain. Not too long ago, I have started a subscription for some workout program. My plan was to watch the program on my phone while being in the gym. It soon turned out that this program was merely a collection of YouTube videos. The ones you can only access when you have the link. Paying 50+ Euro for that every month, by the way. ...

November 2, 2022 · 10 min · Topjer

Schwarzenegger Quotes and BeautifulSoup

This post will be a very brief introduction into html parsing with BeautifulSoup. I am currently in the process of implementing a chat bot for Twitch in Python that listens to various commands. After some thinking I decided to make him respond with Schwarzenegger quotes because … why not? The implementation itself would be no problem as I have done similar things before with the bot. The big question was where to get the quotes from. Previously, I was lucky to get all my quotes from APIs which make it laughably easy to use them with the bot. ...

April 21, 2021 · 3 min · Topjer