John Harris on Nostr: The process of making an epub compilation of Set Side B posts involves writing a ...
The process of making an epub compilation of Set Side B posts involves writing a number of Python scripts: to scrape the posts off the site, to get thumbnails of linked videos, to replace the embeds with the thumbnails and links to the vids, and to get the images.
Every year I forget how to use the scripts I made the prior year, and I have to write them all again. And every year, I'm determined this will the last year I'll have to do it all from scratch.
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