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Book Descriptor

oli 23 June 2023

Problem:

I help run several WooCommerce online shops for indie bookshops in the UK, due to a ridiculous set of circumstances description information is often missing from initial imports of stock and has to be sourced & imported separately. And to-boot, it’s all based on CSV sheets that refuse to use modern encoding.

Solution:

https://github.com/OliPassey/BookDescriptor

I wrote some python that downloads a list of products from the WooCommerce API, imports a source of description information from a local CSV sheet and does matching – where it finds a match it sends a description via the API.

To make the system user friendly I built a simple GUI with log output, so a non-technical user can run it daily and understand it’s output should errors occur.

To use the code, clone the repo, create API credentials for Woo and pass them into config.json, then run gui.py & hit start.

You can use variables in the gui.py to set how many produts are downloaded and assessed for updates – in the first few runs you will likely want this set quite high, but then reduce it to only cover recent imports. I started with all records on the site and reduced down to last 200 products. Your mileage may vary.

If you have to manage multiple sites, create multiple config.json files and then just change the name on line 20. On line 48 you can set how many products to download, keep products per page a maximum of 100 as i think that is the limit of the API.

Therapy Sessions Archive

oli 23 June 2023

Therapy Sessions is a Drum n Bass rave running since the early 2000’s, treating various countries across the map to the filthiest DnB on offer. The original nights in Herbal, London were regularly broadcast live (early 2000’s dialup internet permitting) and many people archived them locally.

Every few years a post goes up on DOA or elsewhere asking for mp3’s but these sites usually don’t last long or the files expire from free-ish hosting sites. I’ve decided to put up a permanent archive for all to enjoy.

Site is here: http://therapyarchive.inadvisable.uk/

The site is built with PHP and is auto-generated upon each load, it extracts ID3 information from audio files and matches set lists & fliers if available.

The code is here: https://github.com/OliPassey/therapyarchive

If you have more recordings, fliers or set lists please get in contact.

If you would like a set taken down (cause you own copyrights) get in contact and i’ll be happy to oblige.

Equally, Robyn – I presume you’re cool with this 🙂
Much love & respect to you for bringing the filth.