The latest articles on DEV Community by MetCoreB (@metcoreb). https://dev.to/metcoreb https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4116594%2F28af7343-cfe6-4642-ad7f-322c0b802052.png https://dev.to/metcoreb en MetCoreB Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:44:47 +0000 https://dev.to/metcoreb/for-my-latest-personal-project-ive-compiled-all-the-tools-i-used-during-my-five-years-as-a-web-5g3n https://dev.to/metcoreb/for-my-latest-personal-project-ive-compiled-all-the-tools-i-used-during-my-five-years-as-a-web-5g3n <div class="crayons-card c-embed text-styles text-styles--secondary"> <div class="c-embed__content"> <div class="c-embed__cover"> <a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" class="c-link align-middle" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img alt="" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fkitdecoder.com%2Fog-image.png" height="420" class="m-0" width="800"> </a> </div> <div class="c-embed__body"> <h2 class="fs-xl lh-tight"> <a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link"> KitDecoder — Free Online Encoder &amp; Decoder Tools </a> </h2> <p class="truncate-at-3"> Free online encoder/decoder: Base64, JSON, regex, and more. Encode, format, validate, and convert data. Fast and client-side. </p> <div class="color-secondary fs-s flex items-center"> <img alt="favicon" class="c-embed__favicon m-0 mr-2 radius-0" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fkitdecoder.com%2Flogo.svg" width="120" height="120"> kitdecoder.com </div> </div> </div> </div> showdev tools webscraping MetCoreB Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:17:35 +0000 https://dev.to/metcoreb/web-scraper-tools-2l07 https://dev.to/metcoreb/web-scraper-tools-2l07 <p>For the past few years, I've been working with web scraping and data extraction, and I often needed small tools to decode, compare, test, and edit text and data.</p> <p>So I decided to put some of these tools together in one place.</p> <p>🚀 <strong>KitDecoder</strong> is a collection of free tools for developers and people working with data.</p> <p>Some of the tools currently available:</p> <p>🔹 Base64 / Base32 Decoder<br> 🔹 HTML Entities Decoder<br> 🔹 Regex Tester<br> 🔹 Text Compare<br> 🔹 Password Generator<br> 🔹 And more tools for working with text and data</p> <p>I built these tools to make some of my daily work easier, especially when working with web scraping, APIs, and data extraction.</p> <p>👉 <a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">KitDecoder</a></p> <p>I'll be adding more tools over time. Hopefully, KitDecoder can be useful to other developers and people working with data too.</p> <p>If you work with web scraping, APIs, or development, I'd love to hear which tools you use regularly and what you'd like to see added.</p> productivity showdev tools webscraping MetCoreB Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:27:33 +0000 https://dev.to/metcoreb/web-scraper-tools-2keo https://dev.to/metcoreb/web-scraper-tools-2keo <p>I made this after years of web scraping work. Kept hitting the same annoyances:<br> decoding a JWT some endpoint returned, cleaning up Base64 blobs, testing a regex<br> against a page structure that changed every other month. I was always bouncing<br> between random online tools for this, never loved not knowing where the data was<br> going.</p> <p><a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">kitdecoder.com</a><br> runs entirely in the browser. I kept adding tools, around 28 now.<br> Curious what's missing or what breaks for people.<br> <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgwsmtqy3x81hjv3i2z01.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgwsmtqy3x81hjv3i2z01.png" alt="https://kitdecoder.com/" width="800" height="610"></a></p> programming productivity python beginners MetCoreB Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:02:43 +0000 https://dev.to/metcoreb/made-a-free-toolkit-for-web-scraping-5345 https://dev.to/metcoreb/made-a-free-toolkit-for-web-scraping-5345 <p>For the past few years, I've been working on web scraping and have had to use various tools, jumping from site to site to extract data.</p> <p>Because of this, I decided to bring them all together in one place: decoders/<br> encoders, regex tools, formatters, and more.</p> <p>kitdecoder.com</p> <p>Take a look and let me know what you think.<br> <a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kitdecoder</a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ff0yn2wg8h6o7evwa1h6p.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ff0yn2wg8h6o7evwa1h6p.png" alt=" " width="800" height="610"></a></p> webdev programming development tools MetCoreB Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:10:49 +0000 https://dev.to/metcoreb/made-a-free-toolkit-for-web-scraping-562e https://dev.to/metcoreb/made-a-free-toolkit-for-web-scraping-562e <p>For the past few years, I've been working on web scraping and have had to use<br> various tools, jumping from site to site to extract data.</p> <p>Because of this, I decided to bring them all together in one place: decoders/<br> encoders, regex tools, formatters, and more.</p> <p>kitdecoder.com</p> <p>Take a look and let me know what you think.<br> <a href="https://kitdecoder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F3sqm5v0dhat1wj1d3awk.png" alt=" " width="800" height="610"></a></p> webdev showdev beginners tools