How to fix “openai.error.RateLimitError: The server had an error”
If you’re a regular user of the OpenAI GPT API, you might have recently faced a very annoying issue, causing your Python script to fail 👇 There’s no rational reason explaining this “RateLimitError” (except of course if you’re actually flooding the OpenAI server with tons of requests). The error is probably caused by the intense […]
How to export all your blog posts as a CSV using Python and SQLite.
A friend asked me if I could help him export all of his blog posts in a CSV format as he was considering migrating his content to another platform. The example in this article explains how to export content created on Bloggi.co but you can apply the same basic principles to any blogging platform accessible […]
Transform any website into an API with Python / BeautifulSoup
I love APIs. They’re an amazing source of data for all kinds of creative projects. But what if a website doesn’t provide an official API? Can you still collect some data programmatically on a regular basis? If you want to transform (almost) any public-facing website into an API, you can leverage the power of Python, […]
How to create your own ChatGPT with OpenAI + Google Sheets + Kaggle Notebooks
BREAKING NEWS: There is now an official API for ChatGPT. You can follow the steps in this tutorial and replace the call to GPT-3 by a call to the ChatGPT API. ChatGPT is all the rage. Everyone has started using the conversation AI interface released in November 2022 by OpenAI. While it provides a great […]
How to start using Python on your Mac
Despite the tremendous advances in the no-code scene, I’ve been noticing an interesting trend: more and more people want to start using Python to enhance their automation skills. I’ve already published a few tutorials explaining how to connect Python to Google Sheets or to WordPress but I thought it would be worth spending some time […]
How to connect Python to Google Sheets
You might be using Make (formerly Integromat) – as I also do – to manage your sales & marketing automations. It’s a great no-code solution, for sure. But if you want to develop more sophisticated automation scenarios, you should explore Python. I started coding in Python a few months ago and I’m now using .py […]
How to connect Python to WordPress
You might already be using Python to scrape, enrich and/or curate data. Python offers great packages such as Selenium, BeautifulSoup and Pandas enabling you to create advanced automated workflows. I’ll cover those packages in more details in forthcoming articles. What if you want to connect Python to WordPress to generate and/or update some posts on your WP […]
How to install lxml in PyCharm on Mac OS Catalina
I still run Mac OS Catalina on my iMac (yes, I know, it sounds kind of vintage when everyone is moving to macOS Ventura, released in late October 2022). Everything is fine performance-wise but once in a while I run into some configuration issues. Recently, in order to use the Python Google Ads API, I needed to […]
How to improve the performance of your WordPress sites?
For simple blogs, you can create them as lightweight static websites. That’s the best way to ensure a stable secure performance. For more sophisticated projects, involving dynamic data queries, my platform of choice remains WordPress. But if you’ve already created WordPress sites, you know how painful it can be to wait a few seconds for a page to […]
