A mix of useful scripts I have made in python and bash (and hopefully in future, Powershell)
Important Note! These scripts are not optimized. They are short and to the point, to get the job done.
Scan home directory (and sub-directories) and report files in decreasing size order. Good for freeing up disk space.
Import bookmarks file, populate dictionary with titles and urls. Sort alphabetically by url. Recreate bookmarks file with hyperlinked title only.
Import bookmarks file, populate dictionary with titles and urls. Sort alphabetically by url. Recreate bookmarks file with hyperlinked url and hyperlinked title.
Scrape and display a daily comic image.
Convert a particular file format of sentence pairs (native and target foreign language) into a csv-style format for importation into Excel/LibreOffice Calc.
Remove banner or in any other way batch crop a number of images.
Scrape and display current bitcoin price.
Download all images from a sub-page of a popular site.
Download all images from a sub-page of a(nother) popular site.
Scans recursively all files and prints a table of those that are duplicated (md5 checksum).
Scans recursively all .py files and greps function names.
Download jpg frames of a static webcam feed
Migrate files from single source to multiple destination directories based on file extension.
Extract foreign language sentence pairs from a specific pdf.
Take a random image from a directory and display it on a web page.
Show your favorite rss feeds on a single page.
Full system report displayed in the Terminal and saved to a text file.
Basic stats such as uptime, free mem/disk, memory errors, most expensive processes, network connections, virt. memory etc.
Post with preview via API to telegra.ph - download and edit markdown.txt. Only single (optional) image url and plain text supported for now. Separate each paragraph with a blank line. Create a file called access_token.txt and put your access token in there. You can obtain an access token and read the rest of the API docs here: https://telegra.ph/api#createAccount Note that there is a mirror for all telegra.ph posts at graph.org
Record laptop temperatures into a timestamped logfile, ready for import into Excel/LibreOffice Calc for analysis/charting purposes.
Download jpg frames of a dynamic webcam feed (mjpg). For longer, time-lapse, captures.
Download jpg frames of a dynamic webcam feed (mjpg). For shorter, burst, captures.
Monitors a web page for changes, logs the time of change and notifies via desktop alert.