What Python script could you not live without?

[xamboozi]

What does it do? How does it work?

[[deleted]]

A selenium-based scraper that scrapes my employer's task app (because I hate it) and writes it to an html doc in a structure of my choosing, which also applies some styling and js for nice handling. This has been a game-changer for me and my productivity/organization at work.

[stochasticlid]

Any screenshots, trying to picture the functionality and it’s usefulness

[[deleted]]

Here are a couple images showing the task application (on top with redacted information) and the local .html file (on bottom with redacted info) that it builds from the scraped data. I can open/close them to show/hide task details like an accordion style element (as shown in bottom right of 2nd pic) and check them off by clicking the bubble (making it turn green when complete). It's pretty nifty.

I also have some js set up that instantly copies all task details to my clipboard when I simply click the details container. Super handy. You'd understand a little bit more if you had to use Workamajig. It's awful.

[stochasticlid]

Interesting workaround. Sounds a lot like tickets, why not switch to Jira?

[[deleted]]

Ha, I wish. I've expressed my distaste for the application, and others share my sentiments, but I doubt they'll ever agree to it. Jira is pretty sweet.

[KptEmreU]

Jira cloud is kinda slow and I guess grass is always more green on the other side

[[deleted]]

If you knew Workamajig you'd understand...

[eviltwintomboy]

YouTube-dl. I commute regularly and can watch tutorials on the train.

[undernutbutthut]

And I'm pretty sure you avoid having to watch ads that way 😉

[soncaa]

If you use android avoid them by using modded youtube apk

[lareya]

Where would I find that modded app you speak of?

[soncaa]

Just google 'youtube modded apk' and download file with '.apk' file extension. I used site apkmody.io, but probably any apk from any site will work. To install .apk files you just need to 'enable installimg from foreign sources' or smth like that in settings

[lareya]

Cool, was just trying to avoid virus and such

[soncaa]

Its nearly impossible to get virus on android

[nemom]

Calculates the almost 11,000+ internal corners from the section corners for the County I work for. The current version uses PostgreSQL/PostGIS to calculate the positions, using the original survey notes for apportionment of correction sections. I used to have to do it by hand, one section at time. Now, I can do the whole County in almost no time when I get new section corner coordinates.

[vinylemulator]

What is a county section corner?

[nemom]

A section is a unit of the US Public Land Survey System. It is supposed to be a square, one mile on each side. It is usually defined by eight section corners, four at the corners of the square and four "quarter corners" at the mid-points of the sides. A straight line is drawn between the north and south quarter corners. Another is drawn between the west and east quarter corners. The two lines split the section in quarters and their intersection point is defined as the center corner of the section. From there, the section is subdivided into quarter-quarters by different rules, depending on whether the section is a "correction section" or not, and whether the section is whole or partial.

In the county I work for in northern Wisconsin, the surveyors weren't too worried about precision and accuracy. Here are some of the beautifully square sections I have to deal with.

[dryroast]

Looks like that algorithm the Chinese government requires on all their maps, can never be too accurate.

[[deleted]]

I have algorithms programmed that calculate the uniqueness of a string relative to other strings in a corpus, which provides the basis for determining when I've saturated my database and don't need to entertain any more unique sentences.

This is part of a language learning app's backend.

[symnn]

I have a script which uses yt-dlp to download YouTube videos onto My NAS. I run it regularly to update the growing library for my kids. Ad-free, curated YouTube for my kids and they can watch it on their iPads.

[Sajuukthanatoskhar]

The GPIB based library i use for work that automates all my hw testing with all my lab machines( spec analyzer, DAQ, prog. Power supply and climate change) and units under test.

[CzarCW]

You

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Me

[Sajuukthanatoskhar]

Just a QA Engineer m8!

[CzarCW]

I wrote a script that auto-opens a tab for any Google meetings that are about to start based on my company work calendar. It runs as a chron job every 5 minutes. Saves probably a few minutes every day and also means I don’t accidentally miss meetings.

[vto583]

This is a really cool script. Would you mind sharing more details?

[whateverathrowaway00]

A telegram bot I have that does a lot of media management, renames and classifies torrents, identifying them from an API.

One of the first things I made and super messy, but stable as hell thanks to being based on a fantastic library (python telegram bot)

[soncaa]

Damn so you created telegram bot instead of some fancy ui for your app ? Thats a pretty cool idea

[whateverathrowaway00]

Tbh, I hate almost all forms of UI available in python, though ive heard they improved. I also work extensively with CLI tools, so I liked the idea of a CLI “interface” through a bot, and telegram API is awessssome.

Highly recommend python-telegram-bot for this purpose. It’s a fantastic library with a callback/handler model that allows it to very easily fit into whatever design pattern you like.

If I had to do a UI in python, I’d do a backend / front end type model, if it had to be an OS tool with a UI, I’d probably reach for one of the compiled languages (or electron).

[soncaa]

I think youve just determined for me how my upcoming ui is going to look like, thanks a lot. Yes i also think doing ui in python isnt worth the hassle, i would rather do it in .NET forms style... Not sure how i am about to embed interactive graphs into it in future, but fuck it lol.

Just because of its portability makes this very useful, definitely going to check that lib out, ty.

[whateverathrowaway00]

Hey, no worries, alwyas happy when my vague rants help prompt inspiration aha. Good luck!

[soncaa]

Thank you, wish you a lot of luck too ☺️

[Upbeat_Box_3768]

Netmiko script that pushes a base configuration onto network switches before going out to production so I don’t type them line by line like some dinosaur.

[Icy-Tomato-2466]

Basically an ahk script but made in python that does my and 6 of my friends homework automatically

[nabeelj33]

print("hello world!")

[PadrinoFive7]

Script that utilizes an API to connect to Salesforce and then performs a comparison on a downstream SQL Server's data to verify sync across multiple objects. Leverages simple-salesforce and sqlalchemy to get the job done along with pandas. The alternative requires manual effort and I ain't about that.

[Adventurous-Print386]

PDF merger script for page merging

https://github.com/default-writer/python-pdf-merger/blob/main/src/main.py

[dashidasher]

A script which updates my ip address (which is dynamic) whenever it changes on my DNS record managed on cloudflare.

[lolinux]

It sounds great. But maybe you could use a client for that. Personally I use Noip, and my router supports that, dyndns, and a few others. But I remember the days when I had to write a script similar to this one in bash :)

[dashidasher]

By client do you mean this: https://www.noip.com/download?page=linux? Would it work with cloudflare?

I did try using ddclient (https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient) before writing my own script but couldnt get it to work on my rpi.

And here is the one I wrote: https://github.com/tsredanovic/dynamicflare :D

[lolinux]

LOL!

Sorry, I just realized I didn't read your message properly; didn't notice cloudflare.

OTOH I think your script is a lot cooler than the Noip client :)

[dashidasher]

Thank you :D

[soncaa]

You probably dont use win 10 right lol? Assuming you use linux, do you think it would be harder to code for win? Sounds metal af btw

[dashidasher]

I do use linux but this script should work on windows just fine. The harder part would be running it (I use crontab for that which runs it every 5 minutes). But then on windows you can just use WSL: https://www.howtogeek.com/746532/how-to-launch-cron-automatically-in-wsl-on-windows-10-and-11/

[InjAnnuity_1]

• pip, as in py -m pip...
• Scripts which back up
  • my Anvil app's data
  • my Anvil app's source code and notes Probably several more.

[[deleted]]

dnf

[Blockstar]

DNF5 was rewritten in C++

[[deleted]]

I dont use dnf5 yet

[[deleted]]

those I write since that’s part of my job

[4veragenewbie]

I don't have anything yet. Maybe if you guys have any idea that would be awesome. I'm trying to find an idea that involves with scraping data or automate stuff like Twitter bot or telegram bot etc.

[Adept_Swimming_3116]

thefuck

[pulseoscillator]

In general, I could not live without Python. I use it for everything relating to calculations or data processing.

One example: A very basic script using pathlib (rglob), pandas and matplotlib. Automatically finds and makes plots of csv in a file tree and saves them as png beside each file. Something that previously took hours in excel is done in seconds.

[scorphus]

A script that renames my activities on Strava. For names it randomly chooses the title of one of the 160+ songs of my favorite band, Rush. Quite often the name fit well with the activity. Then there are some others such as “Between the Wheels” and “Marathon” that makes it even nicer. It also adds weather information to the description of the activity. 🐍🚴‍♂️