Biodegradable Geek

Bash Script to Force an Empty Git Push

Sometimes, like when you’re testing hooks or trying to create synced remote and local repos, you’ll find yourself touching empty files just to get a git push going. This script automates this task by creating a unique temporary file, committing it, pushing, and then removing the file. #!/bin/sh TMP=tmp-`date +'%m%s'` touch $TMP git add $TMP git commit $TMP -m '(forced [...]

Scraping Google Trends with Mechanize and Hpricot

This is a small Ruby script that fetches the 100 trends of the day for a specific date. If multiple dates are searched, one can find out how many times a keyword occurred between two dates, or just find out what keywords are constantly appearing on the top 100 list. Very profitable info! but alas, [...]

AnimeCrazy Scraper Example Using Hpricot & Mechanize

This is a little (as of now incomplete) scraper I wrote to grab all the anime video code off of AnimeCrazy (dot) net. This site doesn’t host any videos on its own server, but just embeds ones that have been uploaded to other sites (Megavideo, YouTube, Vimeo, etc). I don’t know who the original uploaders [...]

Quick BASH Script to Dump & Compress a MySQL Database

A quick script I whipped up to dump my MySQL database. Usage: sh backthatsqlup.sh (be warned that it dumps ALL databases. This can get huge uncompressed) #!/bin/sh # Isam (Biodegradablegeek.com) public domain 12/28/2008 # Basic BASH script to dump and compress a MySQL dump   out=sequel_`date +'%m%d%Y_%M%S'`.sql dest=/bx/   function e { echo -e "n** $1" }   e "Dumping SQL file ($out). May take awhile..." #echo "oh [...]