This page contains all Python scripts that we have posted our site so far.
Examples
Using pywhois
pywhois is a Python module for retrieving WHOIS information of domains. pywhois works with Python 2.4+ and no external dependencies [Source]
Magic 8-ball
In this script I’m using 8 possible answers, but please feel free to add more as you wish. There are 20 answers inside the Magic 8 Ball, and you can find them all here.
CommandLineFu with Python
A common first step when you want to use a Web-based services is to see if they have an API. Luckily for me, Commandlinefu.com provides one and can be found here
Find all mp3 files with os.walk and fnmatch
In an earlier post “OS.walk in Python“, I described how to use os.walk and showed some examples on how to use it in scripts. In this article, I will show how to use the os.walk() module function to walk a directory tree, and the fnmatch module for matching file names.
- OS.Walk and Fnmatch in Python
- How to Traverse a Directory Tree in Python – Guide to os.walk
- Having fun with OS.Walk in Python
Port scanner in Python
This post will show how you can make a small and easy-to-use port scanner program written in Python.
Backup all MySQL databases, with timestamp.
Backup all MySQL databases, one in each file with a timestamp on the end using ConfigParser.
Google Command Line Script
To make a request to the Web search API, we have to import the modules that we
need.
SSH Connection with Python
Pxssh is based on pexpect. It’s class extends pexpect.spawn to specialize setting up SSH connections.
Date and Time Script
This script can be used to parse date and time.
Bitly Shortener with Python
Bitly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). It’s a way to save, share and discover links on the web.
Sending Mails using Gmail
The smtplib module defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Finding all files in the path that ends with a certain extension
This short script uses the os.listdir function (that belongs to the OS module) to search through a given path (“.”) for all files that endswith “.txt”.
Command Line speedtest.net via tespeed
Speedtest.net is a connection analysis website where users can test their internet speed against hundreds of geographically dispersed servers around the world.
Search computer for specific files
In this article, I will show how to use the os.walk() module function to walk a directory tree, and the fnmatch module for matching file names.
Parsing with Json
Knowing how to parse JSON objects is useful when you want to access an API from various web services that gives the response in JSON.
Get the Geo Location of an IP Address
Time for a script again, this one will geolocate an IP address based on input from the user. For this script, we will be using a bunch of Python modules to accomplish this.
Get the username from a prompts
This script will ask the user for its username, by using the raw_input function. Then a list of allowed users is created named user1 and user2. The control statement checks if the input from the user matches the ones that are in the allowed users list.
Tweet Search using Python
This script will use the Twitter API to search for tweets.
Date and Time in Python
In this post, I will show you how you can do it without that by just using
datetime.datetime.now() .
The second part of the post is about the the timedelta class, in which we can see
the difference between two date, time, or datetime instances to microsecond
resolution.
Python Game : Rolling the dice
This is a classic “roll the dice” program.
Monitor Apache / Nginx Log File
This small script will count the number of hits in a Apache/Nginx log file.
Log Checker in Python
This script will show all entries in the file that is specified in the log file
variable.
Count how many days until a birthday
In this post, I will show you how you can print out the dates and times by just using datetime.datetime.now().
Python : Guessing Game part 2
This small program extends the previous guessing game I wrote about in this
: post “Guessing Game”.
Guessing Game written in Python
This script is an interactive guessing game, which will ask the user to guess a
number between 1 and 99.
Python Password Generator
You can use Pythons string and random modules to generate passwords.
OS Walk
OS.walk() generate the file names in a directory tree by walking the tree either top-down or bottom-up.
Convert KM/H to MPH
This script converts speed from KM/H to MPH, which may be handy for calculating
speed limits when driving abroad, especially for UK and US drivers.
Get all the links from a website
In this script, we are going to use the re module to get all links from any website.
Celsius and Fahrenheit Converter
This script converts temperature between Fahrenheit to Celsius.
How to use the Vimeo API in Python
In this post we will be looking on how to use the Vimeo API in Python.
Show the most popular videos on YouTube
This program will show how we can use the API to retrieve feeds from YouTube.
Calculate the average score
This script will calculate the average of three values.
Check your external IP address
This is a simple Python script to check which external IP address you have.
Python Hangman Game
This is a Python script of the classic game “Hangman”.
Python Command Line IMDB Scraper
This script will ask for a movie title and a year and then query IMDB for it.
Python code examples
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ActiveState Code – Popular Python recipes
Snipplr.com
Nullege – Search engine for Python source code
Snipt.net