PageSieve
A browser extension for interactive web scraping.
Hi, you have landed on my corner of the web. Within are logs of my various projects, experiements and thoughts on tools. All software focused of course.
Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments. Enjoy reading!
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Building a Movie Catalog with Obsidian: Part 1
Obsidian is a great tool for note taking but an even better one for cataloging different forms of data. In this article, I'll describe how I use it to track movies.
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Extracting Structured Data from PDF Files
In this article I will go over the details of a recent project involving extracting data from a PDF Swahili-English dictionary.
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Using A* and Python to Solve a Puzzle
In this article we'll be trying to solve the puzzle game flood using Python. The game is played on a grid of cells that can be of any fixed number of colors.
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Web Scraping on the Shell
Often times there's data on the internet we'd like to get our hands on. In most cases I'd start on a Python script with the usual suspects requests, beautifulsoup4, json or csv. This works well butwhen the task in question only needs to be run once, it would be alot easier to run a few commands on the shell.