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welcome everyone!
Heyo everyone, welcome to the community! I joined about 2.5 years ago during Hacktoberfest 2020 to blog about a Python open source project I was building at the time and never left :~)
Can't wait to see everyone around! :D
Hi! Sounds interesting - what was the project about?
Hey Anthony! Thanks for asking :D
it was a lightweight Instagram scraping library that abstracted out having to deal with HTML so you could focus on writing clean code i.e.
Profile("chris_greening")would scrape my insta (chris_greening) and set followers, number of posts, profile pic URL, and a whole bunch of other data points as attributes. You could also chain that withPost,Hashtag, etc. objects that would do similar things (number of likes, number of comments, etc.) and build a really interesting web of data pointsSuper useful and I had a lot of fun with it but Instagram started really cracking down on web scraping and it got too difficult to regularly maintain 😅
Sounds like a tool that could produce some stunning data visualisations! Can I ask why Python? I don't really know much about it so was just trying to broaden my horizons.
Lol yeah! I was doing some really neat stuff, it's a bummer the project fell off
And of course! At the time I was really focused on breaking into the data science space (where Python is a hugely popular language) and Python was already my primary language so I just kind of fell into it
Python also has a really rich ecosystem of packages that lent itself well to this particular project and the simple yet elegant syntax aligned perfectly with the philosophy I wanted to build into the package
That's a shame about the project. Have Instagram's changes made the project non-functional now?
Ehhh more or less, last I checked it still partially works but the GET requesting is very naive so Instagram flags the primary functionality very quickly for botting
When I was building it though I figured some folks would have much faster solutions for gathering the HTML so I built the ability to pass just the raw HTML files in and scrape from there instead, I think that still mostly works
Nice to meet you Chris!
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Hello everyone! I would like to learn as much as I can about Docker and related material. I love coding!
That's fantastic Michael, best of luck on your Docker journey!!
For sure you will find here so much usefull content :)
Hi Chris, can you say more or have you published about how we can participate in Hacktoberfest? If you have please send the link (:
Hey Francielle! :D
It's a fantastic way to get involved with the open source community and develop your personal portfolio/resume - I would say I partially owe my career to Hacktoberfest 2020. I went in a complete newbie to open source, started my own project, and then landed my first steady programming job a couple months later as a direct result of that project!
I haven't personally published anything about Hacktoberfest itself but they've got really great info on the official website each year on how to get involved
Basically you signup with Hacktoberfest on their website each year around October and then between October 1-31 you have to submit at least 4 pull requests to open source projects on GitHub or GitLab (and the pull requests have to be accepted/verified by project maintainers)
The first 40,000 participants to complete the 4 PRs get to choose between receiving a t-shirt or having a tree planted (and then here on DEV you get a badge on your profile as you can see on my profile (I have 2020, 2021, and 2022 😎 )
Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help :D Maybe this year I'll write a blog post about how to get involved 😎
First of all, thank you very much for the explanation!!! I am very anxious to participate this year and you managed to clarify several doubts that I had
Omg of course, anytime!! Please always feel free to reach out for questions/advice
Totally understandable, I was super anxious too - that's actually why I started my own project instead of contributing to an existing one! At least on my own project I was able to learn the basics of open source, git, GitHub, etc. at my own pace without any external pressure
It ended up working out really well because I was able to build a small community of new open source contributors that were in the exact same boat as myself and we all learned on that project together!
I'm super beginner friendly on all my projects - when Hacktoberfest comes around this year (or whenever) please reach out or submit some pull requests if you want! I can help walk you (and anyone else that's interested) through GitHub, pull requesting, etc. it's def easier having someone explain when you're first starting out
Welcome to the community Chris 😀
Thank you Elizabeth!
Welcome to all the new members to DEV!
Welcome! Hope y'all enjoy.
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thank you and looking forward to giving back!
Hi Everyone, My name is Peace Sandy and I’m a tech writer
Hi Peace. What do you write about?
Greetings and a warm welcome to all!
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Thank you for sharing Aneeqa!
Hello everyone! My name is Victor and currently I'm a high school student, planning to do information systems degree in the next year (2024).
That's awesome Victor! Best of luck on your degree, you're gonna do great :~)
Thank you, Chris!
Greetings everyone! Hope everyone is having a great week!
Hi Jay! Hope you're having a great week too!
Cheers Jay, back at you! :D
Hey Sarah, great to meet you! :D