Social media downloaders - Martindb
A shortcut to make a PDF out of a webpage and save it to Notes.app
Joel Esler, Sourcefire, Snort, Immunet, ClamAV, Apple, and Network Security. This is my blog.
Read2Text is now Gather, your new Markdownifier - BrettTerpstra.com
As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name
Automate the Publishing Process of Your Podcast With GitHub Actions
Send your podcast from YouTube to Anchor.fm
Downloading a YouTube channel with yt-dlp
Downloading whole YouTube channels using the yt-dlp tool, with specifying video quality and format types. For a general run down and usage guide on yt-dlp go here. Go to the bottom for the full yt-dlp…
3 Ways to Convert YouTube Playlist to Apple Music
YouTube is great for music discovery. Here are 3 ways to convert your discovered YouTube music videos to your music app for regular listening.
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms – TechCrunch
The landmark web scraping case was bounced back to the Ninth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Race to Save Posts That May Prove Russian War Crimes
Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.
Checking lots of URLs with curl
A bash script to check the HTTP status code of a bunch of URLs, for simple and portable uptime checking.
Mac: How to save alternate app icon in dock OSX xcode
In xcode on OSX app, I can change the app icon in the dock by using this code:
let image = NSImage.init(named: NSImage.Name(rawValue: "AltAppIcon"))
NSApp.applicationIconImage = image
But when I ...
Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters
The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be… Continue reading Music industry is...
Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy – The Markup
Journalists have used scrapers to collect data that rooted out extremist cops, tracked lobbyists, and uncovered an underground market for adopted children
I Don't Trust GitHub — Mike Stone
A week ago, GitHub received a DMCA takedown notice regarding a program called youtube-dl. Their response has shattered the tiny amount of...