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FFMPEG is a command-line tool that converts audio or video to required formats, which handle multimedia data. It can also capture and encode in real-time.

There are many approches for generating PDF in python. pdfkit is one of the better approache as, it renders HTML into PDF with various image formats, html forms and other complex printable documents.

We do need to expose our local server to hit call-back URLs while programming with other APIs. There is a tool called local tunnel from http://localtunnel.me/ and that does it for you for free with https. Now, what local tunnel is? Local tunnel allows us to easily share a web service on our local development machine without any server modifications. It will assign a unique URL which can be publicly accessible that will proxy all requests to our locally running webserver.

In most of the cases, you need to export the data from your database to different formats. In this post I will show you how to create functions in your Django applications which export data as files. Here I will be covering the mostly used formats: CSV and Excel.

Oscar is an open-source eCommerce framework for Django. Django Oscar provides a base platform to build an online shop. Oscar is built as a highly customisable and extendable framework. It supports Plug-gable tax calculations, Per-customer pricing, Multi-currency etc.

There are many ways for generating PDF in python. In this post I will be presenting PDF files generation with xhtml2pdf.

xhtml2pdf: xhtml2pdf is a HTML/CSS to PDF converter written in Python and therefore platform independent. xhtml2pdf supports for frameworks like Django and simple integration into Python programs. It is also usable as stand alone command line tool.

pisa: pisa is a html2pdf converter using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib and pyPdf.

Running Django with PyPy to boost performance

In this blog, we will see how to integrate Django and PayU Payment Gateway. To integrate with PayU, we have package called "django-payu" - a pluggable Django application.

GitHub Repository: django-payu
Documentaion: django-payu.readthedocs.org

The quick way to get/extract text from PDFs in Python is with the Python library "slate". Slate is a Python package that simplifies the process of extracting text. In this post, we will see how to get/extract from pdf's.

Using GPlus integration by Django, we can get the user verified email id, general information, friends in a less span of time, and user can also share articles.