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jbreckmckye / gist:4553c47e1b26dbe6130f1d7736f148d9
Last active November 10, 2023 02:07
JSTOR Open Access Book List
Title Subtitle Authors JSTOR Discipline 1
Tracking Rural Change "Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe" Socio
@danog
danog / dropbox_youtube_dl.sh
Last active January 13, 2018 16:00 — forked from roblight/dropbox_youtube_dl.sh
Script to download videos from YouTube using Dropbox and IFTTT automation (IFTTT recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/277403-download-every-youtube-video-you-add-to-your-watch-later-playlist-automatically)
#!/bin/bash
### Original script by Geoffeg, modified by Roblight and later by me (alias me='alias Danog='Daniil Gentili'')
### How to install this script:
### wget https://gist.github.com/danog/a3963463892f7f7df74a/raw/dropbox_youtube_dl.sh -O ~/dropbox_youtube_dl.sh && chmod 755 ~/dropbox_youtube_dl.sh && ~/dropbox_youtube_dl.sh --install
###
### IFTTT Recipe URL: https://ifttt.com/recipes/277403-download-every-youtube-video-you-add-to-your-watch-later-playlist-automatically
if [ "$1" = "--install" ]; then
if [ -f /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ]; then echo "Youtube-dl already installed."; else echo "Installing youtube-dl..."; sudo curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.04.03/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl && sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl && echo "YouTube-dl installed successfully." || echo "Couldn't install YouTube-dl."; fi
@loleg
loleg / grab-commons-images-sh
Last active June 3, 2023 09:49
Download images and metadata from a Wikimedia Commons category or results page
#!/bin/bash
#
# Download images from a Wikimedia Commons category
#
# Highest preview resolution and metadata in XML format will be saved in subfolders.
# Usage: execute this script on a Linux command line, providing the full URL to the category page.
#
# Shell tools required for this script: wget sed grep
#
@sckott
sckott / plos_solr_search.md
Created April 22, 2014 16:23
PLOS API solr search using solr R pkg

Install from CRAN and load

install.packages("solr")
library("solr")

Define URL

@drjwbaker
drjwbaker / Mining Digital Repositories.md
Last active August 29, 2015 13:58
Mining Digital Repositories: Challenges and Horizons, KB, Den Haag, 10 April 2014

###Mining Digital Repositories: Challenges and Horizons, KB, Den Haag, 10 April 2014

Live notes, so an incomplete, partial record of what actually happened.

Tag #digrep14


####Challenges (Thursday)

Hans Jansen, KB

@liquidgecka
liquidgecka / cron_helper.sh
Last active September 28, 2023 15:35
Cron helper
#!/bin/bash
usage() {
cat << EOF
Usage: $0 [OPTION]... COMMAND
Execute the given command in a way that works safely with cron. This should
typically be used inside of a cron job definition like so:
* * * * * $(which "$0") [OPTION]... COMMAND
Arguments:
@tzermias
tzermias / pipelines.py
Last active March 14, 2024 23:35
Scrapy MySQL pipeline. Just a mirror to the asynchronous MySQL pipeline. Copy-paste it directly to pipelines.py. Database credentials are stored in settings.py. Based on http://snipplr.com/view/66986/
import MySQLdb.cursors
from twisted.enterprise import adbapi
from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher
from scrapy import signals
from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings
from scrapy import log
SETTINGS = get_project_settings()
@hubgit
hubgit / publishers-dois.csv
Created July 12, 2013 14:13
Approximate number of "journal article" DOIs registered by each publisher for articles published in 2012. Total: 2,189,820. ISSNs + publishers from http://www.crossref.org/titleList/ DOI counts per ISSN from http://search.labs.crossref.org/dois?year=2012&type=Journal+Article&header=true&rows=0&q={ISSN}
Elsevier 529633
Springer-Verlag 206527
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons) 110387
Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing) 100235
Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) 85869
Trans Tech Publications 53310
Sage Publications 42105
Oxford University Press 40496
American Chemical Society 39543
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 39186
@ctb
ctb / gist:5663625
Last active November 23, 2021 04:11
Hi bwa users,
The bwa-mem manuscript has been rejected. Interestingly, the first
reviewer only raised a couple of minor concerns and then accepted the
manuscript in the second round of the review. The second reviewer made
quite a few mistakes on some basic concepts and was hostile from the
beginning. The third reviewer gave fair and good review in the first
round, all of which have been addressed, but he then tried hard to
argue one particular mapper to be the best in accuracy that on the
contrary is inferior to most others in my view. I admit that my