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OnlyLinks - Create and share link collection

Feb 20, 20213 min read

I built a service for creating and sharing a collection of links. One can create a new collection and add up to 20 links and share it with others. This can be very useful when sharing links with people; you can create a collection of links and bookma...

Set-up anonymous messages for your hashnode blog

Feb 14, 20217 min read

Let's see how to create a messaging widget for your hashnode blog. We will set-up the widget to send the message to a server, which sends the message to the user via telegram. Final Product This is our final result. A messaging widget that sends mes...

Fake API - An API to generate fake data

Feb 4, 20214 min read

Here is an API for all the frontend developers. An API to generate fake data, lots of it. This tool comes in handy when you are developing a frontend for applications that requires data a lot of data. Frontend frameworks like React, Vue, etc., are t...

Build a Reddit Video downloader with Python

Jan 15, 20215 min read

This article is about building a Reddit video downloader from scratch using python. I wrote a post on building a YouTube video downloader from scratch some time ago. If you are interested, give it a read. https://blog.amalshaji.com/building-a-youtub...

Building a YouTube downloader from scratch in Python

Nov 22, 20204 min read

There are many resources on How to download YouTube videos using yt-downloaders; this one is different. This article shows how to create a YouTube video/audio downloader in Python without using external libraries. This article is heavily inspired b...

Building Pastebin clone using FastAPI

Oct 26, 20206 min read

Pastebin is a website that allows you to share text data using a unique link. This comes in handy when you need to share a quick code snippet or any small amount of information. In this article, you'll see how to implement the text sharing using Fast...