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<# Sample PowerShell script to use Invoke-WebRequest with custom cookie and header

Ref:
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/invoke-webrequest?view=powershell-7.5
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69519695/adding-cookies-to-invokerest-method-powershell
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51772748/powershell-websession
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import time
import logging
from datetime import datetime, UTC
from pathlib import Path

import requests
from sqlalchemy import select
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, Session

from my_models import Download, Status

jkerhin

"""Combine multiple PDFs into one, optionally rotating them

Requires "pypdf" library, tested with v5.2.0 at time of writing

MIT No Attribution

Copyright (c) 2025 Joe Kerhin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

jkerhin

"""Walk through the filesystem, store in sqlite db

Utility script for walking a filesystem, and storing file information in a sqlite
database.

Goals/Design Notes:
 - [x] Pure standard library
 - [x] Name, Path as seprate columns
 - [x] Store the datetime that a file pth was inserted
 - [x] Implement fulltext search of both filenames and paths

jkerhin

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Copy Windows 10 lockscreens to a local directory

Uses heuristics to avoid copying other assets stored in the same directory. May be
imperfect, this has only been tested on two systems.

Big thanks to "CharlieRB" on SuperUser; without their answer I never would have figured
this out: https://superuser.com/a/1126475
"""

jkerhin

"""Quick wrapper around whisper.cpp to allow transcription of arbitrary media

Automatically create .wav file using FFMPEG, then transcribe it using the
(built seprately) whisper.cpp binary with most output formats.
"""
import sys
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

WHISPER_DIR = Path("/home/joe/whisper.cpp")

jkerhin

"""Simple script to silence Tyler's Chromecast

Documenting this for future me. This is the script I use to shut off Tyler's music
each weekday morning when it's time to get up and get ready. Rock simple script, single
line crontab.

Crontab:
    45 6 * * 1-5 /home/joe/.local/share/virtualenvs/chromecast-uUcxDOyh/bin/python /home/joe/projects/chromecast/silence_tyler_speaker.py

Depends on the `pychromecast` library, see:

jkerhin

"""Simple script to grab all the RocketLab mission info

There is plenty of room for improvement, but this works.

Requirements defined below using inline script metadata (formerly PEP-723), and the file
can be run standalone with `pipx`, `uv run`, etc.
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# dependencies = [