The WordPress REST API has become a part of the WordPress core starting from the version 4.7. It is, for example, required by the WordPress Block Editor, and if the WordPress REST API is disabled, you won’t be able to publish or update your posts: “Updating failed. REST API disabled.“. Normally, the WordPress REST API […]
WordPress: Auto-Post to Telegram Channel (No Plugin)
You can easily increase visitor traffic to your WordPress website by integrating it with a Telegram channel. However, manually sharing every blog post to the Telegram channel can become a time-consuming task – especially if you publish an article every day. In this note i will show how to create a callback function that will […]
Python Requests ‘User-Agent’ – Web Scraping
A ‘User-Agent’ HTTP request header is a string that a web browser is sending to a web server along with each request to identify itself. The ‘User-Agent’ string contains information about which browser is being used, what version and on which operating system. Some websites block access from non-web browser ‘User-Agents’ to prevent web scraping, […]
Python: Module Path – List Modules & Get Locations
Let’s say you have a Python module somehow installed on a computer, so you can “import” it, and you want to find a path to this module to check its source files. In this note i am showing how to list all the locally installed Python modules and how to find the paths to these […]
Indexed by Google: Pages Checker on Python
To check if a webpage has been indexed by Google, you can manually search for site:<webpage> in a Google Search, for example: site:https://www.shellhacks.com/indexed-by-google-pages-checker-on-python. If the page is indexed by Google, you will see the URL in the result of the Google Search, otherwise you will see the message as follows: Your search – site:https://www.shellhacks.com/indexed-by-google-pages-checker-on-python – […]
VSCode: Multiple Cursors – Select Multiple Lines
A multi-cursors editing is a technique that allows a user to select multiple lines and make multiple simultaneous edits at once. The multiple cursors feature is available in a Visual Studio Code (VSCode) out of the box. This short note shows how to select and edit multiple lines simultaneous using the VSCode’s multiple cursors feature.
Windows: `lsusb` Equivalent – PowerShell
The lsusb command in Linux, known as the “List USB” command, is widely used to list the connected USB devices and display the information about them. One of the quickest ways to list the connected USB devices in Windows is by using the “Device Manger”: simply press the ⊞ Win key to open the “Start […]
Arduino: Change Device’s VID/PID/Name
Vendor IDs (VID) and product IDs (PID) are 16-bit numbers used to identify USB devices. By these numbers a computer identifies what USB device is plugged in and what drivers to use with it. If you are developing for example some Arduino-based USB HID keyboard, you may want to change the device’s VID/PID and the […]
Arduino: /dev/ttyACM0 – Permission Denied [SOLVED]
If you use an Arduino IDE on Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.), you may get the following errors while trying to upload a sketch to the Arduino broad: Caused by: processing.app.SerialException: Error touching serial port ‘/dev/ttyACM0’. – and – Caused by: jssc.SerialPortException: Port name – /dev/ttyACM0; Method name – openPort(); Exception type – Permission […]
WordPress: Debug Mode – Enable & Locate Logs
Do you need to find and fix some errors in a WordPress website? The WordPress comes with a built-in debug mode that can be enabled in the website’s wp-config.php file. This note shows how to enable the debug mode in the WordPress and how to find the location of the debug.log file.