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Winfortune 10 - Integrating the program into Windows' command line interpreter, cmd.exe
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To automatically start a program every time cmd.exe is started, edit the following registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
Add a variable called "Autorun",...
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Winfortune 09 - fixing the graphical artifacts in the ASCII art
ralienpp
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There were a few problems with the way the ASCII drawings were rendered. In this video I find the cause of the problem.
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Winfortune 08 - ASCII art experiments, listing directories and reading files with Python
ralienpp
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We're getting closer to the desired result. In this tutorial I selected a few ASCII art characters and extended the program such that it can load the ASCII drawings, attach...
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Winfortune 07 - Joining the building blocks, finally we can harvest all the quotes
ralienpp
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At this point the program is actually ready to retrieve all the quotes from the site.
Keep in mind that some servers may apply throttling if you're connecting too often an...
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Winfortune 06 - Python and SQLite tutorial
ralienpp
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In this very simple example I explain how to devise a database schema for a database of quotes.
Further, I explain how to use SQLite with Python to create a database, add...
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Winfortune 05 - Automate page retrieving via HTTP and HTML parsing with lxml
ralienpp
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This part of the tutorial covers the creation of two primitive functions that will then be used as building blocks in a bigger program.
The functions rely on what we've pr...
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Winfortune 04 - Python and LXML, examples of XPath queries with Python
ralienpp
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How to use Python LXML to perform XPath queries and extract data from HTML pages
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Winfortune 03 - XPath experiments and query examples
ralienpp
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Explore the contents of the page and figure out which XPath queries will fetch the data we are looking for.
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Winfortune 02 - Find a site with quotes we can harvest
ralienpp
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Examine the structure of the pages of a quotes site and find where the data we need are located.
The video also provides a very simple explanation of how browsers "talk" t...
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Winfortune 01 - How to create an equivalent of fortune and cowsay for Windows, using Python
ralienpp
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This is the introduction to a series of video tutorials that explain how to create an equivalent of fortune and cowsay for Windows.
This will be a program that picks a r...
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