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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Looking for some new quotes for @HelloooooNewman

17-Mar-11

I’m looking for some new quotes for my Seinfeld-quote-spewing twitter bot @hellooooonewman. There are currently 161 tweets in its database and the bot has sent over 246,000 tweets. If you take a simple average, each quote has been tweeted over 1,500 times. Its time to update the bot with some fresh content. I’m admittedly not [...]

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Chuck Norris doesn’t screen-scrape, the data runs scared to his hard drive.

01-Mar-11

Inspired by a tweet from Roger Ehrenberg and my 11-year-old son who’s crazy about Chuck Norris facts, I screen-scraped the contents of http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com. Code and data can be found here. Using Python and BeautifulSoup, it simply loops through all of the pages on http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com and reads the items displayed on the page. Output looks like Visit [...]

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