#454 It's some form of Elvish

Topics covered in this episode:

• djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.
• Github CLI
• caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.
• 🐴 GittyUp
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.

• Emma Levit
• Based on an interesting blog post
  • Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django?
  • As opposed to using DRF or Django Ninja
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Michael #2: Github CLI

• GitHub’s official command line tool
• Features
  • Checking out a pull request locally
  • You can clone any repository using OWNER/REPO syntax: gh repo clone cli/cli
  • Create a pull request interactively: gh pr create
• See all at cli.github.com/manual/examples

Brian #3: caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.

• reddit announcement and discussion

• caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports:

  • A difficulty score (0–10)
  • Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.)
  • What tools you’ll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.)
  • Whether using a scraping API might be better

  This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.

Michael #4: 🐴 GittyUp

• Never forget to pull again: Automatically discover and update all your Git repositories with one command.
• Built initially to solve this problem
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