The requests library is the most popular python library for sending HTTP requests. As a normal part of RESTful application development you'll often want to see exactly what you're sending to the server including request headers and payload. [Continue reading...] Better Debug Logging for The Python Requests Library
Automated bots creating fake accounts are a persistent problem targeting any user self-registration systems and django-allauth is no exception. The most common approach to discourage these bots is to incorporate a captcha on your signup page that adds a layer of validation, with Google's ReCaptcha being the industry-standard implementation. Integrating recaptcha into django-allauth can be tricky so in this post I'll cover the steps to add a captcha to the django-auth signup page. [Continue reading...] Integrating ReCaptcha With Django-AllAuth
Parsing Apache HTTPD access logs into a database structure allows you to easily run queries and reports against it to better understand web traffic and detect issues. By using the pip installable apache_log_parser package and the sqlite3 python module that comes as part of the standard python library, we can quickly parse these access logs and insert entries into a sqlite3 database. [Continue reading...] Parsing Apache Logs Into A SQL Database
While RAW files provide much more information to work with, you may find support for different manufacturers RAW format lacking in tools and libraries that you may have used in the past. This post briefly covers extracting Exif metadata from most RAW file formats with python. [Continue reading...] Extracting RAW Photo Exif Data With Python
