I am really new to python, just played around with the scrapy framework that is used to crawl websites and extract data.
My question is, how to I pass parameters to a python script that is hosted somewhere online.
E.g. I make following request mysite.net/rest/index.py
Now I want to pass some parameters similar to php like *.php?id=...
Yes that would work. Although you would need to write handlers for extracting the url parameters in index.py. Try import cgi module for this in python.
Please note that there are several robust python based web frameworks available (aka Django, Pylons etc.) which automatically parses your url & forms a dictionary of all it's parameters, plus they do much more like session management, user authentication etc. I would highly recommend you use them for faster code turn-around and less maintenance hassles.
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So I recently became interested into knowing how to create a URL shortener without using bittly or other things, but I am not very good at using python to connect with other stuff. All I know is:
Checking to see if the URL is available ( Only to see if it has HTTP:// and unavailable characters, nothing to see if the domain is occupied or not. )
All of the other things... I need help with.
By the way, I COMPLETLY do not understand how to do that, so it would be great if you add comments to show me what is going on.
I suggest you take a look at Flask, it is a framework for building web applications (APIs, web apps, etc.).
DigitalOcean has a nice tutorial on this.
You can either use hashing algorithms for the custom shortened urls, or even let the user pick more readable names (like bit.ly/my-url). In this case you would be storing in a database the shortened url and the long url.
I'm giving myself a project to better learn these languages which I already know a lot of it's just syncing them together I need to get better with. This project is a pretty basic "SIM" game, generate some animals into your profile with login/logout. So far I've got the website aspect with HTML/CSS done and functioning with all the pages I currently need all of which is local host on my desktop. Now I'm moving on to working with Python and possibly some PHP aspects into this to get the login/logout and generate a new animal into your account.
Everything I've done with python so far has been done in IDEL, I'm wondering how to link my python document to my HTML document. Like you would CSS? Or is that not possible if not then how do I connect the two to have python interact with the HTML/CSS that has been created? I'm guessing to need MySQL for a database setup but seeing how much I can get as a simple local host without hosting online?
If you want to setup a localhost with PHP and MYSQL I can recommend XAMP (https://www.apachefriends.org/). In order for your webapp to talk to your Python scripts you will either need to use FLASK or Django to create a python webserver, or use PHP to run python scripts. Either way, you will need to make AJAX requests to an API to get this done.
Edit: Forgot to mention this, but you will need JavaScript in order to do this
I am in the middle of my personal website development and I am using python to create a "Comment section" which my visitors could leave comments at there in public (which means, everybody can see it, so don't worry about the user name registration things). I already set up the sql database to store those data but only thing I haven't figured out yet was how to get the user input (their comments) from the browser. So, is there any modules in python could do that? (Like, the "Charfield" things in django, but unfortunately I don't use django)
For that you would need a web framework like Bottle or Flask. Bottle is a simple WSGI based web framework for Python.
Using either of these you may write simple REST based APIs, one for set and other for get. The "set" one could accept data from your client side and store it on your database where as your "get" api should return the data by reading it from your DB.
Hope it helps.
I'm trying to analyse different ways of Python connection to webserver: cgi, fastcgi, mod_python, WSGI, and Django framework...
So, how many ways exist to parse get/post parameters in python? Are they differ from one connection to another?
I saw this question. CGI, Django etc. are considered there. But what about fastCGI? Is it the same way as CGI? And mod_python, WSGI?
I take interest in the most usable, 'popular' ways of getting request parameters.
It can be parsing of particular parameter (name=value) or entire query string parsing.
Where I can read about different APIs?
There are so many connection methods and frameworks, so I get confused(
Thanks a lot! Nikolai.
urlparse.parseqs[l]() is used to parse parameters. But you likely won't have to do it yourself since the framework (if you're using one) will handle them.
I have a large amount of automatically generated html files that I would like to push to my Plone website with a script. I currently generate the files, log into Plone, click edit on each individual page and copy and paste the html into the editor. I'd like to automate this. It would be nice to retain the plone versioning, have a auto generated comment for the edit, and come from a specific user.
I've read and tried Webdav with little luck at getting it working consistently and know that there is a way to connect to plone via ftp, but haven't tried it. I'm not sure if these are the methods that I need.
My google searches aren't leading me to anything useful. Any ideas on where to start looking for a solution to this? Or any tips on implementing it?
You can script anything in Plone via the following methods:
Through-the-web via API calls (e.g. XML-RPC, wsapi, etc.)
The bin/instance run script provided by plone.recipe.zope2instance (See charm for an example of this).
You can also use a migration framework like:
collective.transmogrifier
which allows you to write migration code, and trigger it via GenericSetup or Browser view. Additionally, there are applications written on top of Transmogrifier aimed roughly at what you are describing, the most popular of which is:
funnelweb
I would recommend that you consider using or writing a Transmogrifier "blueprint(s)" to do your import, and execute the pipeline with a tool that makes that easy:
mr.migrator
You can find blueprints by searching PyPI for "transmogrify". One popular set of blueprints is:
quintagroup.transmogrifier
One of the main attractions to the Transmogrifier approach, aside from getting the job done, is the ability to share useful blueprints with others.
I think transmogrifier is the best tool for this job, but this will definitely be a programming task no matter how you do it. It's used for many such migration jobs such as migrating from drupal.
There's an add-on, wsapi4plone.core that pumazi at WebLion started that provides web services for portals which you can then hook into. You can create, modify, delete content via XML-RPC calls. The only caveat is that it doesn't yet work with Collections (criteria specifically).
project: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wsapi4plone.core
docs: http://packages.python.org/wsapi4plone.core/
You can also do it programmatically by hooking into the ZODB via Python (zopepy or some other method).
These should get you started:
http://plone.org/documentation/kb/manipulating-plone-objects-programmatically/reading-and-writing-field-values - you should be able to get an understanding of accessors and mutators (setters and getters), in your case you are going to be more than likely working with obj.Text (getter) and obj.setText (setter).
https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/AutomatingObjectCreation - lots of examples (slightly outdated but still relevant)
http://plone.org/documentation/faq/upload-images-files
Try to enable Webdav or ftp in Plone, then you can access Plone via webdav or ftp clients, pushing the html files. Plone (Zope) will recognises the html files as Pages.