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toolbrew.coBTW this reminds me of excellent https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
AHHHHH YESS, I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT AFTER 5 minutes of thinking.
This has definitely helped me a lot in a lot of times when I didn't have my pc or just in general too, their api was also pretty hackable too actually and they support more than youtube
Btw did I mention its open source?
Tho the last time I did try to install something from cobalt.tools it wasn't working
One time, I remember that a group of girls in my previous school were downloading yt vids on school lab via some sketchy website and I said to them to use cobalt.tools while I was walking & I definitely farmed some aura too I suppose which I am sure literally everyone involved in the scene have forgotten except me who is recalling it right now.
Another thing I like about cobalt is the api, I had cooked something that could be a bang in duckduckgo of sorts that would download the video from the api of cobalt but I just couldn't deliver the bang and also I needed some custom facing thing in the background but now I think that I can have something like cloudflare.
Imagine having this thing in browser where !yt-dlp <youtube video> just downloads it or refers us to a working cobalt instance y'know.
I might build something like this for cf workers or smth. What are your thoughts?
From our whole interaction, I came away admiring the skill and professionalism of their team.
Can't imagine what kind of stuff ChatGPT has on us too :D
https://github.com/KeyboardInterrupt/awesome-little-online-h...
This is exactly the kind of Website I was looking for, when I started that List a good while back. :)
Ty!
Interested in seeing what other people use!
I had rarely seen him that angry - but I totally, totally got it... qr code freemium gating is such a pettily predatory business "model".
Yes I know I could self host it but I felt really overwhelmed self hosting it.
So much so that I created a golang (LLM generated, funny how I am so AI skeptic when I use it, hey I just don't think its worth it economically no matter what) but yeah, its a simple golang code which just takes some pdfs, merges them. The code is shitty but I didn't write it and stores it in the server for some time so you definitely need to make some modifications.
https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/d925689d54fe7ccf79...
Please modify it as I (built?) this for my own use case but the main thing I want to take away from this is that pdfcpu for golang might be really nice library for golang for pdf's except the binary is 20MB of size and I would love to see it shrunk down a bit y'know.
Anyways, nice project.
Depending in your file manager, drag and drop might work on shell scripts too. Even multiple files.
TBH, when I last needed something like that I simply called zenity from my shell script.
That's something new!!
OHHH that's actually really cool to have zenity, Wow. I didn't know about this...
Is this thing cross platform? I like it if you are saying that it would open up a drag and drop box and then merge the pdf's
Definitely a bit harder than what I had cooked but I respect it, I might use zenity or some gui-esque option to convert cli's into gui of sorts y'know..
But my tool is just some lines of golang which can be go mod init go mod tidy go run . and it would open up localhost port and can even be accessed through other devices on the same network but your thing is really cool too
Can you though please share me the shell scripts or something so that I don't have to write the shell scripts when I need in the time of need y'know?
Like your approach is nice too and something to know in the back of my mind too
Depends on the file manager. I use Caja which is fairly ancient, and supports this, so I expect newer file managers to support it too.
For PDFs, something like this might work (note: not tested)
#!/bin/bash
pdftk $@ cat output output.pdf verbose &> /tmp/output
> Is this thing cross platform? I like it if you are saying that it would open up a drag and drop box and then merge the pdf's
Not sure if zenity is x-platform; what I did do once when I needed to select multiple files was have the shell script sit in a loop calling zenity, appending filenames to a variable, and then display a confirmation with a "Process" button before performing the actual processing.
ISTR using zenity for display the file selection dialogs, the confirmation dialog and a progress indicator while processing.
> But my tool is just some lines of golang which can be go mod init go mod tidy go run . and it would open up localhost port and can even be accessed through other devices on the same network but your thing is really cool too
Yeah, I just needed something temporarily for the operators to use during a build process. Wasn't going to need network access, nor did I want to add in a new dependency by using Python or something.
Pretty expansive actually:
I also built a free and open-source invoice generator, no signup and no ads.
Check it out:
* Wouldn't github disapprove of it?
* The website doesn't give a ton of credibility to it (e.g. the user story slider) and I couldn't find much from a cursory web search on it. Do you find them trustworthy?
* Are you even finding it valuable?
This is the project from those guys https://x.com/githubprojects
They launched this new product, GitAds, a couple of months ago, and I decided to give it a try.
GitHub doesn’t seem to mind, and GitAds seems trustworthy, but I don’t see much value in having their ads in my repo, so I might remove them soon =)
Would be helpful if more input boxes could use relevant types (e.g. “number”, “url”, etc.) so the dedicated keyboard appears on mobile.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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