This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
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danielpunkass
/ GrabBlogLinks.py
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February 4, 2015 21:38
Example of using xmlrpclib to efficiently fetch the posted entry URLs for all posts on a blog...
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| import sys | |
| import xmlrpclib | |
| postLimit = 1000 | |
| if (len(sys.argv) < 4): | |
| print "Usage: %s <blogAPIURL> <username> <password>" % sys.argv[0] | |
| print "E.g.: %s http://example.com/xmlrpc.php daniel 1234" % sys.argv[0] |
gruber
/ Liberal Regex Pattern for Web URLs
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December 1, 2025 22:57
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching Web URLs
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| The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http, | |
| https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to | |
| match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502 | |
| License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause | |
| # Single-line version: | |
| (?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps |
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| ''' | |
| Pythonista Find and Replace | |
| =========================== | |
| Notices | |
| ------- | |
| Copyright 2013 Harry Jubb. | |
| This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
voidfiles
/ expandurl.py
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December 12, 2015 09:29
I wanted to share clean URL's directly from my phone. This is most specifically geared towards feedburner URL's, but could be just short URL's as well. This script unwraps any URL's surrounded with ** in the text on your clipboard. Unwraps them, and clears out unwanted query params. Then opens the text in felix for posting.
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| """ | |
| Pythonist script to expand any URL surrounded by **'s | |
| """ | |
| import clipboard | |
| import requests | |
| import webbrowser | |
| import urlparse | |
| from urllib import quote, urlencode |
dergachev
/ GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
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October 31, 2025 16:45
OS X Screencast to animated GIF
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| sex | ageYear | ageMonth | heightIn | weightLb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f | 11.91667 | 143 | 56.3 | 85 | |
| f | 12.91667 | 155 | 62.3 | 105 | |
| f | 12.75 | 153 | 63.3 | 108 | |
| f | 13.41667 | 161 | 59 | 92 | |
| f | 15.91667 | 191 | 62.5 | 112.5 | |
| f | 14.25 | 171 | 62.5 | 112 | |
| f | 15.41667 | 185 | 59 | 104 | |
| f | 11.83333 | 142 | 56.5 | 69 | |
| f | 13.33333 | 160 | 62 | 94.5 |
beh
/ gist:3549933
Created
August 31, 2012 07:40
Add bookmark to pinbord.in with predefined tag, without user intervention
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| javascript:q=location.href;if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else{d='';};p=document.title;void(open('https://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&noui=yes&jump=close&tags=TAGS GO HERE&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=100,height=100')); | |
| // Copy and paste the above into a new bookmark. Replace "TAGS GO HERE" with your tags. Presto! |
marcedwards
/ high-dpi-media.css
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September 24, 2025 23:32
A CSS media query that captures almost all high DPI aware devices.
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| /* ---------------------------------------------------------- */ | |
| /* */ | |
| /* A media query that captures: */ | |
| /* */ | |
| /* - Retina iOS devices */ | |
| /* - Retina Macs running Safari */ | |
| /* - High DPI Windows PCs running IE 8 and above */ | |
| /* - Low DPI Windows PCs running IE, zoomed in */ | |
| /* - Low DPI Windows PCs and Macs running Firefox, zoomed in */ | |
| /* - Android hdpi devices and above */ |
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| import os | |
| from flask import Flask, render_template, request | |
| import stripe | |
| stripe_keys = { | |
| 'secret_key': os.environ['SECRET_KEY'], | |
| 'publishable_key': os.environ['PUBLISHABLE_KEY'] | |
| } | |
| stripe.api_key = stripe_keys['secret_key'] |
brentsimmons
/ googleSearchString.py
Created
August 1, 2012 04:32
A script that generates a Google search URL and pastes it to the Mac OS X clipboard
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| import sys | |
| import os | |
| from urllib import urlencode | |
| import subprocess | |
| # setClipboardData is from <http://www.macdrifter.com/2011/12/python-and-the-mac-clipboard/>*/ | |
| def setClipboardData(data): |
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