Topics covered in this episode:

* djrest2 -* A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.
Github CLI
caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.
* 🐴 GittyUp*
Extras
Joke

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Brian #1: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.

Emma Levit
Based on an interesting blog post
- Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django?
- As opposed to using DRF or Django Ninja

Michael #2: Github CLI

GitHub’s official command line tool
Features
- Checking out a pull request locally
- You can clone any repository using OWNER/REPO syntax: gh repo clone cli/cli
- Create a pull request interactively: gh pr create
See all at cli.github.com/manual/examples

Brian #3: caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.

reddit announcement and discussion
caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports:
- A difficulty score (0–10)
- Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.)
- What tools you’ll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.)
- Whether using a scraping API might be better
This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.

Michael #4: 🐴 GittyUp

Never forget to pull again: Automatically discover and update all your Git repositories with one command.
Built initially to solve this problem
Rebuilt and published last week as part of my upcoming Agentic AI Programming for Python course. Get notified this week at training.talkpython.fm/getnotified
Update everything in a folder tree with gittyup
Review changes, blockers, etc with gittyup --explain

Extras

Brian:

Three times faster with lazy imports - Hugo van Kemenade
Interesting discussion on Hugo’s post - on Mastodon
Use lazy module imports now - Graham Dumpleton
Graham’s post uses wrapt, a “module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching”, to simulate lazy imports
Helpful comment from Adam Johnson on Graham’s post to actually do the import during type checking using if TYPE_CHECKING: import ...

Michael:

uvloop is back!
pypi+ listened. :)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o9dey5/i_just_released_pypipluscom_20_offlineready/
Feedback from my “Show me your ls” post.

Joke: Some form of Elvish

#454 It's some form of Elvish

Python Bytes

#454 It's some form of Elvish