Scrapy has the `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting that defines whether your spiders should respect robots.txt policies or not. The problem is that this setting is global and appli…
Here's the real-life case.
On this blog, I have two models: `Post` and `PostStats`. The former is, as you might have guessed, for posts, while the latter is for per …
A lot of fog and mysteries surround Python virtual environments. There are loads of packages, tools, and wrappers trying to make developer's life with virtual environmen…
I've been working with the Django cache recently. And while Django has exceptional caching capabilities, I was surprised to find out that it doesn't provide a simple way…
Django's request object has a nifty little method `is_ajax`. It allows determining whether a request comes from a JS framework (aka old-school ajax). While it works fine…
Let's say I want to remove the **User** menu item from Wagtail settings menu.
All I need to do is to put this hook into `wagtail_hooks.py` file of my Wagtail CMS app:…
Are you swearing at mailgun now? Have you smashed your keyboard already? Do you keep receiving the `Domain not found: domainname.com` error although you're 100% sure you…
Sending email messages from a web app often seems like throwing stones into a black hole. You create a message, pass it to a mail send function and hope for the best. Yo…
If you use Tailwind CSS and want to integrate it easily with Django, check out a package I created about a month ago.
Surprisingly it's called **Django-Tailwind**. Yo…
I'm building a backend for a scraping tool that has two simple models `Website` and `Page`, where `Website` can have many pages.
In a simplified form it looks like:
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