Some experiments in website scraping using Python 2.7 with BeautifulSoup 3.2. The first function here shows various manipulations of an HTML page, including saving a scrubbed file to disk. The second function shows a simple crawler that attempts to traverse a domain and build a sitemap from hyperlinks encountered in the pages. Includes some commentary on page encoding, parsers and multiple approaches to some tasks.

Tinkering with Python xmlrpclib, in this case for updating a WordPress blog from the command line. Using Python 2.7.6 here. xmlrpclib is included with Python 2.7, but if you need it, install with Pip.

An example of a Python LDAP lookup, Python 2.x. This one uses the on-campus LDAP service at UC Davis, so just change the LDAPServer and searchBase for another LDAP server.