Note: This site is currently "Under construction". I'm migrating to a new version of my site building software. Lots of things are in a state of disrepair as a result (for example, footnote links aren't working). It's all part of the process of building in public. Most things should still be readable though.

Updating My Daily Link Grabber - LiveCoding

`youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHhUYzuMVc`

### [Start: 00:00:00] - Chatting and Review

Just chatting.

### [Time: 00:10:45] - Enhancing The Daily Link Grabber

I spent a while before the 3 hour mark trying to figure out this look which only adds items to an object if they don't match a set of exclude patterns. This is what I ended up with

def clean_data_remove_excludes(self): new_object = {} for item in self.object_data: def include_item(): for pattern in self.exclude_patterns: if re.search(pattern, item): return False return True if include_item(): new_object[item] = self.object_data[item] self.object_data = new_object

TODO List for the grabber:

- Update timestamp in blogpost template - Load config files (zero, one, or more) - Move hard coded variables into a config file - Filter out regex patterns (e.g.) - docs.google.com - localhost - www.alanwsmith.com - launchpad - work domains - amazon stuff that's not browsing - youtube links that aren't videos - Flip the title of searching so "Google Search" is at the start. - Update Stack Overflow to use share link - Drop preface category from stackoverflow links.

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