Often times when scraping web data, accessing API's, or any other automated web activity through Python, you will want to use a web driver and/or proxy as levels of protection for your script and personal IP address. Using combinations of different web drivers and proxies can help ensure your process and personal IP are not blocked … Continue reading How to Run Web Drivers with Proxies in Python
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Training a Perceptron Model in Python
I recently started reading the book Python Machine Learning by Sebastian Raschka. As I go through the book, I plan on doing a series of posts that will outline what I learn along the way. This post outlines the first chapter, "Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification". Specifically, the chapter dives into using a Perceptron … Continue reading Training a Perceptron Model in Python
Building a Tinder Bot in Python
**UPDATE 11-19-17** I have included a function for automating the process of getting an auth token for the Tinder bot to work (Tinder Token Retriever). Shout out to the developer! To see a post of the code, view this post: Automatic Tinder Authentication Token Retriever in Python. The update has been included in the code … Continue reading Building a Tinder Bot in Python