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Automatically Download the Latest Software Release from GitHub with Python

Use the GitHub API to fetch the latest release metadata and download the first asset (binary or archive) to a local directory.

github api download

Python

import requests
import sys
from pathlib import Path

def download_latest_release(owner: str, repo: str, output_dir: str = ".") -> None:
    """Download the latest release asset from a GitHub repository."""
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases/latest"
    response = requests.get(url)
    res…

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Build a Python Utility That Verifies Backup Integrity Automatically

Automatically compute and verify SHA-256 checksums of backup files using a JSON manifest to detect missing or corrupted data.

sha256 backup integrity

Python

import hashlib
import os
import json

def compute_checksum(filepath, algorithm='sha256'):
    """Compute checksum for the given file."""
    hash_func = hashlib.new(algorithm)
    with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
        for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(4096), b''):
            hash_func.update(chunk)
    return hash_f…

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How to Compare Two GitHub Repositories and Highlight Differences in Python

Fetch metadata from two GitHub repositories using the GitHub API and compare key attributes like stars, forks, license, and language, printing any differences.

github-api api comparison

Python

import requests
import json
from pathlib import Path

def fetch_repo_data(owner, repo_name):
    """Fetch repository metadata from GitHub API."""
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo_name}"
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response.json()

def compare_repos(…

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How to Detect Recently Installed Software in Python

Uses subprocess to call pip and parse package metadata to list recently installed Python packages.

pip subprocess automation

Python

import subprocess
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def detect_recently_installed(days=7):
    """Detect recently installed software packages."""
    recent_packages = []
    cutoff_date = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)
    
    try:
        # For pip-installed packages (Python packages)
    …

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Scrape HTML Tables in Python with html.parser

Extract data from HTML tables using Python's built-in html.parser module, without third-party dependencies, by overriding callback methods to track table, row, and cell states.

html scraping parser

Python

import html.parser
from urllib.request import urlopen


class TableParser(html.parser.HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.in_table = False
        self.in_row = False
        self.in_cell = False
        self.current_cell = []
        self.rows = []
        self.row = []

    d…

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