Category: Web

I saw this article Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge and have some feelings about this emerging technology. For ChatGPT to learn and improve it needs data to be fed into it. It is obtaining information and data from open-source locations, and also scraping websites to get data to train the

In this project I posed the question of which sibling lives the longest. It was a question that popped into my head as two of my siblings passed away last year. I looked up on the interwongle and couldn’t find any data on the subject so decided to do my own research.I used the NZ

This video is a follow on from:Python Future prices, WITS API & My Electricity Bill-https://youtu.be/ZkVWFVpS9wEPython Remote Trigger from subdomain on Website -https://youtu.be/tJwL5M_wGvMPython Live Transit Data on Map on Web Subdomain -https://youtu.be/Lt4LdtpVTfg Objective of project I wanted to show dynamic chart of electricity prices on a webpage and be able to update the data as required.I

A rather long video but I wanted to display a map from a Flask App in a subdomain on the web. The map shows the transit route of a bus for Metlink in Wellington NZ and uses the General Transit Feed Specification structure for its API. On the map it shows the route of the

Following on from the Python Remote Trigger Scripts at variable User Selected Times video where I did a button from a IP address website, I wanted to create a website on a SUBDOMAIN of one of my existing Domains.In this video I show how to set it up for Windows Server IIS so that it

I’ve got some automations, such as getting daily electricity Spot Prices emailed to myself on a PDF chart sent to me at specified times, in this case daily at 6am using Task Scheduler on the server to run scripts at the specified time. I wanted to be able to run them at a time of

I have been doing work on my bespoke Epherems data using either Python libraries or API’s to fetch the data, so I thought I’d explore getting web data via web scraping process. This is not something I’m keen on as I’ve had a lot of frustrations with the method in the past, but thought it

The web page for the Tree Diagram Background story My daughter is a grower and she had information on the different generations of plants she is growing. She has a spreadsheet that she uses to show different strains of plants, grown initially from seed and then cloning the plants to get the best strains. To

Background to issue Major stuffup, I’d got spam comments on website and I deleted about 2/3 of my post table rows. This lost me all my download links to code files for eBooks I’d published. I was foolish in that I didn’t have a backup of the website (I do now) so I had to

Clippings is an add-on in Firefox and Thunderbird. It allows you to store clips for reuse. You can set hotkeys to access them, but you need to do another hotkey before you can access the hotkey you want , so a 2 step process. I suppose that could be good if you have massive repetitions