Crawl a website with scrapy

In this article, we are going to see how to scrape information from a website, in particular, from all pages with a common URL pattern. We will see how to do that with Scrapy, a very powerful, and yet simple, scraping and web-crawling framework.

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Create a webcam manager using pyGTK and Gstreamer

Introduction

I recently joined the Strongsteam project for a 6 month internship. Our main goal is to provide some "artificial intelligence and data mining APIs to let you pull interesting information out of images, video and audio." We will be doing a presentation at Pycon 2012, the 9th of March …

How to randomly generate a Monty Python parody

If you always wanted to write texts in the way of Monty Python, I have what you need ! In this post, I am going to show you mathematical techniques to analyse a text, in order to randomly generate look-alike texts.

Introduction to basic concepts

First essential question: what is a …