Python Mysql Connector

Thought I would try my hand at some SQL programming with Python, I was stuck using a Windows machine(BLAH) I wanted to setup a MySQL database and 1 table for testing. I am on a Windows machine so I installed WAMP which is a Windows Apache Mysql Php server. You can get the installer for Windows here:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

You can get the python library / module here:

Mysql Python
Using PhpMyAdmin I setup a database and added the table.

mysql

As you can see I created a function that added data into my new database. I pass it 4 parameters, id-name-dept-salary, when you execute this script the database gets populated with the correct data. Pretty cool!!

Here is how you can see the help and call the command properly:
help command

Here is what you can see when performing a select * from the table.
database command

Here is the awesome IDE pyCharm and the results from running the code.
pycharm
Here is an example of how to query that database from the table.

Here is the output of the fetch command using ID as a parameter:
database command

Took me a while to figure out the syntax, so hopefully this helps someone.
Jason

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PYTHON – Script to download youtube videos for offline viewing

I was interested in viewing this video of a news conference (USENIX 2016) on my trip home on Metro North Train, NYC => CT. The trip is about an hour an 10 minutes from Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to Milford CT, express train that is. My concern was that I would have choppy internet service on the way since I recently updated my laptop and the built in Verizon Mobile card was not activated yet. I would need to use my ATT iPhone as a hotspot, which proved to be very shakey at times. A colleague of mine recommended a website for making youtube videos available for offline viewing. The name of this site was:

http://www.keepvid.com

Right off the rip I was concerned that this site was infested with malware and any other bullshit associated with a free video ripping service. I used the site and was able to create a download of the video I was interested in, however who knows how sick my Windows based machine just got. I could of contracted anything from this site.

I thought about this and said, there has to be a better way, or a python lib for this, and low and behold a search came up with PYTUBE:
https://github.com/nficano/pytube

This library had some interesting features and literally blew away the keepvid site in regards to flexibility. Here is some explaining of what this library can do. Please have a look at the examples below, I will do my best to narrate them.

Here I use PIP to install the PYTUBE lib, you can ignore the DEPRECATION: warning for my outdated python that blares at you for being such an idiot.

Next up you can see that I am setting a variable yt(this is the video you want to download). Using python’s Pretty Print Lib you can run the pprint(yt.get_videos() method to see what formats are available for download.

Please have a look at the comments in the code for a bit more details in regards to what is going on, in this example I am using the filename Pulp_Fiction.mp4 for my filename I want to be when downloaded.

Ok so here is what it looks like when you execute the program:

As you can see we have a new filename with the video we asked for to watch without a streaming internet connection, here is a ls to show:

As always, I am sure there are better ways to do this and I am sure there is cleaner code. Most of this code was taken right from the authors site who is a badass, here is his link:

https://github.com/nficano/pytube

Hope you liked,
J$0N