A beginner’s guide to web scraping with Python and Scrapy Getting Started To get us started, you will need to start a new Python3 project with and install Scrapy (a web scraping and web crawling library for Python). I’m using pipenv for this tutorial, but you can use pip and venv, or conda. pipenv install scrapy At this point, you have Scrapy, but you still need to create a new web scraping project, and for that scrapy provides us with a command line that does the work for us....

Apple fanboys might need to arm themselves when they set foot on the hallowed turf that is this years Mobile World Congress event as Google has plans to unleash its own Android army and tempt attendees with a full-on slide. BBCClickmanaged to get a behind the scenes look at theFira de Barcelona– the venue for the event – which shows the Google stand in development and gives us a look at the search giants’ army of Android robots that will no doubt be dotted around the event....

A better approach to implementing dark mode on your website Dark mode in a few lines of code The first option works with the use of “dark” magic. Joke aside, it consists of one line of CSS. What? You’re probably wondering how that could work, and you may be right to be skeptical, but it does indeed. Let’s see it in action before we talk about why I don’t like this option so much:...

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A new tool calledBrickifyfrom the team atCarsonifiedallows you to upload images or photos and turn them into plans for building bricks, great for people who want to transform their logos or are simply just fans of Lego. Speaking of Lego, it’s the whole reason Brickify came to be. The Carsonified team took a trip to the local Lego store, thought it might be fun to craft the its own logo in Lego bricks, before realising there were no such tools available online....