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zthomae / rich-feed.py

Created November 20, 2012 18:17

RSS feed scraper for Frank Rich at NYMag

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
	import urllib2
	from datetime import datetime
	from dateutil.parser import parse
	import PyRSS2Gen as rss
	from pytz import timezone
	import re
	import sys

zthomae / make-feed.py

Created October 24, 2012 16:35

A script for turning an ugly class webpage into a podcast rss feed

	from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
	import urllib2
	from datetime import datetime
	import PyRSS2Gen as rss

	d = pq(url='http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology-125-podcasts-2012.htm')
	URL_ROOT = 'http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/'

	items = []

zthomae / .screenrc

Created October 13, 2012 19:01

Shell scripts for remote screen on ec2

	hardstatus on
	hardstatus alwayslastline
	startup_message off
	termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
	hardstatus string "%{= kG}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %m/%d %C%a "
	screen -t shell 0
	screen -t irc 1
	screen -t code 2
	screen -t etc 3

zthomae / app.js

Created August 30, 2012 17:09

FRED toolkit in node.js - The beginning

	var express = require('express');
	var app = express();
	require('./core.js')(app, {'namespace': 'api', 'api_key': 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456' });
	app.listen(3000);

zthomae / follower_map.rb

Created August 19, 2012 01:26

Get a "map" of your twitter followers for useful RTs - See which of your followers are following people that you also follow.

	require "twitter"

	# Set sample size (pick this percentage of your followers)
	SAMPLE_SIZE = 0.25

	# Construct Twitter instance
	t = Twitter.new

	# Add screenname to params
	screen_name = "zthomae"

zthomae / tumbltweet.rb

Created August 19, 2012 01:25

Get recent tweets and put them on tumblr blog

zthomae / snippets.py

Created August 19, 2012 01:23

Python snippets

	## SPLIT AROUND SPACE ##

	import string

	# All forms of whitespace except the space
	whitespace = string.whitespace[:-1]

	# Split a string around its whitespace, with words and whitespace being entries in a list
	def split_around_space(string):
	new = []

zthomae / GenTester.py

Created August 19, 2012 01:21

Gen Tester - See how many random numbers need to be generated to have created every number in range n

	#!/usr/bin/python2.7

	import pickle, os, sys
	from sets import Set
	from random import randrange
	from shutil import make_archive, rmtree
	from time import time

	def SetGenCount(input_length):
	"""

zthomae / bookmarklets.html

Created May 30, 2012 00:33

My bookmarklets

	<html>
	<head>
	</head>
	<body>
	<a href="javascript:(function(e,a,g,h,f,c,b,d)%7Bif(!(f=e.jQuery)%7C%7Cg%3Ef.fn.jquery%7C%7Ch(f))%7Bc=a.createElement(%22script%22);c.type=%22text/javascript%22;c.src=%22http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/%22+g+%22/jquery.min.js%22;c.onload=c.onreadystatechange=function()%7Bif(!b&&(!(d=this.readyState)%7C%7Cd==%22loaded%22%7C%7Cd==%22complete%22))%7Bh((f=e.jQuery).noConflict(1),b=1);f(c).remove()%7D%7D;a.documentElement.childNodes%5B0%5D.appendChild(c)%7D%7D)(window,document,%221.7.2%22,function($,L)%7Bdiv=document.getElementById(%22overlay%22).parentNode;div.removeChild(overlay);div.removeChild(gatewayCreative);document.getElementsByTagName(%22html%22)%5B0%5D.style.overflow=%22scroll%22;%7D);">Kill NYTimes Paywall</a>
	<a href="javascript:(function(e,a,g,h,f,c,b,d)%7Bif(!(f=e.jQuery)%7C%7Cg%3Ef.fn.jquery%7C%7Ch(f))%7Bc=a.createElement(%22script%22);c.type=%22text/javascript%22;c.src=%22http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/%22+g+%22/jquery.min.js%22;c.onload=c.onrea

zthomae / klouchebag_min.js

Created May 1, 2012 01:23

A stripped-down version of the Klouchebag script, putting scores in localStorage

	function fetchTweets(user) {

	$.ajax({
	type : 'GET',
	dataType : 'jsonp',
	url : 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json',

	data : { screen_name: user,
	count: 200,
	include_rts: 1,

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