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anderser / views.py

Created September 28, 2012 12:27

Presidentpoll - get data fra HuffPost president pollofpoll and pass to Django template

	from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404, get_list_or_404
	from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, Http404, HttpResponse
	from django.template import RequestContext
	from django.core.cache import cache
	import iso8601

	from pollster import Pollster

	def presidentmatch(request):

anderser / grabber.py

Created May 22, 2012 18:13

Grab webpage from python/django with wkhtmltopdf

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import os
	import shlex, subprocess
	import logging
	from django.conf import settings

	logger = logging.getLogger('pagetracker.grabber')

	def grab_page(url, outfile):

anderser / api.py

Created March 26, 2012 14:31

Cached tastypie model resource

	class CachedModelResource(ModelResource):

	def create_response(self, args, *kwargs):
	resp = super(CachedModelResource, self).create_response(args, *kwargs)
	resp['Cache-Control'] = "max-age=600"
	return resp

anderser / models.py

Created March 23, 2012 17:15

Save image locally from submitted url in field image_url in Django model

	from django.core.files.temp import NamedTemporaryFile

	def save_image_from_url(self):
	"""
	Save remote images from url to image field.
	Requires python-requests
	"""
	r = requests.get(self.image_url)

	if r.status_code == 200:

anderser / gettag.py

Created January 26, 2012 12:01

Simple python method to retrieve title tag of external page/url - or other tags..

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import re
	import requests

	def get_page_tag(url, title_re=re.compile(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', re.UNICODE )):

	"""
	Retrieves the title tag from a given url (or actually any tag if you want..)

anderser / urls.py

Created January 24, 2012 10:28

Using cache decorator in urls.py to keep the app DRY

	from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
	from timelineit.views import *
	from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_control,never_cache

	urlpatterns = patterns('timelineit.views',

	url(r'^desk/(?P<slug>[-\w\d]+)',
	never_cache(timeline_preview),
	name="timeline_preview"),

anderser / sheet.py

Created October 10, 2011 21:02

Merge multiple excel sheets in one workbook into single sheet workbook

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import xlrd
	import xlwt
	from optparse import OptionParser
	import datetime

	"""
	Merges excel files with multiple sheets with identical header lines into

anderser / fusiontimeline.html

Created August 12, 2011 20:50

Use Google Fusion Tables to power ProPublica's Timelinesetter timelines

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<link href="http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/public/stylesheets/timeline-setter.css" rel="stylesheet" />
	<script src="http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/public/javascripts/vendor/jquery-min.js"></script>
	<script src="http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/public/javascripts/vendor/underscore-min.js"></script>
	<script src="http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/public/javascripts/timeline-setter.js"></script>
	<script src="../js/date.js"></script>
	<style>
	#timeline_setter .TS-item_label a {

anderser / grabber.py

Created July 3, 2011 17:52

Simple python script for use in Django to grab webpage to PDF using wkhtmltodf

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import os
	import subprocess
	import logging
	from django.conf import settings

	logger = logging.getLogger('pagetracker.grabber')

	def grab_page(url, outfile):

Created March 14, 2010 19:59

	<html>
	<head>
	<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
	<style type="text/css">

	body{font:12px/1.231 arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;}

	</style>

Anders Eriksen anderser