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Tag Archive | "Code example"

Calculate Your GPA Using this Bash Script

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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This Bash script is used to calculate your Grade Point Average (GPA) on the command line. Usage might not be intuitive. Please see the usage function or just run the script without passing it any arguments. The gval function should be edited to reflect your own region or university. It has been written and tested on [...]

Scraping Google Trends with Mechanize and Hpricot

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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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

Sunday, January 11, 2009

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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 [...]