Webcodecamjs demo not working for book ISBN number - qr-code

WebCodeCamJS:
https://github.com/andrastoth/WebCodeCamJS
There is no releases there, which one should I download? The latest is stable?
I downloaded the latest and extracted it under Apache, and access demo in my computer using HTTPS. The camera drop down: camera 1 (facing unknown). The camera name will be shown if using the online demo
https://atandrastoth.co.uk/main/pages/plugins/webcodecamjs/
anything wrong? But the scanning QR Code is working anyway.
For scanning barcode, it is not working for book ISBN number. Not working for the barcode on the plastic water bottle.

A lot of people get confused about this. Just to clarify, when you are scanning an ISBN barcode, it is usual that no information will appear. The reason is because the only way to access the database of ISBNs is to have an expensive subscription to Bowker's books in print, which runs $1,000 per year. Bowker owns the ISBN database and they don't make the info public. So it's not like you're doing a Google Search. In fact, you can't do a Google Search for ISBN data for the same reason, ie. Bowker owns the ISBN database and they charge for access.

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Extract leads From Google Maps using Python

there's a Chrome Extension called "Lead Extractor" that when you search i.e. "Barbers in New York" allows you to download a CSV file with a list of all the merchants with Address, opening hours, reviews count, phone number etc etc. ( for better understanding click HERE) Is there any way to do what this extension does using Python?
I tried to look around but I wasn't able to find much. Thank you! I am a novice and I automated the process with PYAutoguy, but the process is time consuming and sometimes it things get messed up and the cursors ends up roaming around aimlessly without downloading anything.

Is there a way to simulate a user search on the Youtube API?

I am trying to collect some data for a pet study. I would be collecting some metadata on the video suggestions based on a search. I was wondering if it is possible to do the following using the Youtube API(python or R) :
Input a search keyword and get the results
Choose one of the videos randomly and see the list of video suggestions.
Choose one of the suggested videos randomly.
Repeat this "n" times.
Is there a way to emulate this entire process? I think web-scraping can be an option but I am not really sure, how I would go about it. So if there are nay pointers that would be amazing and get me started.
Also, Is it possible to have no history, as in an option to erase all the cookies for the previous attempt(Steps 1 through 4) and start afresh? (More like an option to have this in Incognito Mode)
TIA for your suggestions.
AFAIK Google tracks the computer you are using in such a way that you can't escape their filter bubble. Even through Tor, YouTube might prefer some content related to the exit node IP location (and so language) or any previous YouTube search done by you (through this exit node) or another user of the end node or any computer using the same IP as the exit node...
The YouTube Data API v3 has a possibility to retrieve suggestions thanks to part=suggestions with Videos: list by authenticating with OAuth (so results might not be neutral). You can get the initial videos thanks to Search: list thanks to q filter. Web-scraping is also doable to be less tracked, my open-source YouTube operational API is able to web-scrape search results for instance.
Note that a French person claims having achieved to have done such a neutral French YouTube suggestions graph.

Linking to product page gives "Not Available for bots to index" error on screen instead of the old style App Details

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/name/ID
Linking to my app product page gives "Not Available for bots to index"
What is the proper syntax to place a href link to the product so that users online can view it as html?
I don't have a final solution, just a workaround.
We've been seeing the same issue with our own app for the past few days and we've started seeing reports of people encountering this with all kinds of apps, including even Microsoft's own AppInstaller. It seems to be a server-side rate-limiting/caching issue at Microsoft as changing anything in the URL fixes the problem temporarily -- only to get back to the same issue a few hours later. We also found that VPN-ing to some locations (mostly to the US) helped as well, and this throttling seems to be specific to an app & an availability region (when it got blocked, it blocked across all Europe, but not in US for example). It seems to come & go as we have not seen a big drop in new install counts.
As a temporary solution we ended up adding a random string to the end of the URL. We used GCLID as we found it to be the least offensive way -- it could just as well be a legitimate tracking ID we pass over. So now the URL we link to looks like this:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/[APPNAME]/[APPID]?gclid=f-3579a28842a7bcac7ba630d698829e9b
Where the "f-xxxx" value is generated using the md5() of the timestamp -- but it could be any ever-changing value, even a random number.
We've reached out to our MS contact about this but we haven't heard back yet.
I encountered the same issue half an hour ago, but it seems recovered now.
If you own an app, you can confirm Product identity in Partner Center:
You can share the direct link and Store ID to help customers find your app in the Store:
URL: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/*12CharsAppId*
Store ID: 12CharsAppId
Store protocol link: ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=12CharsAppId
The above address would be recommended but the apps.microsoft.com URL should also work.
I work on apps.microsoft.com. I can confirm that there was an issue on our end that appeared on August 23. This issue has been resolved.
And the proper link, of course, is this:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/[your product id here]

Is it possible to encode multiple data in a QR code?

I have a classifieds webapp for our student union and want to create printable versions of the different ads, that students can print and distribute on the campus. To get further information, people should be able to read a QR code from the printout with their smartphone.
The question is: Can I encode both the phone number to call for the ad and the URL of the website in the QR code at the same time, so that people can scan the code and then select if they want to call the person or open the website of the ad?
I was thinking about using a vcard, but that would add that otherwise useless information to the peoples contacts list. Is there something like CSV data that Android correctly reads to achieve this? (And preferably iPhones, too)
Of course you can.
VCard is fine, it would enable other QR readers to parse it correctly - so your QR would be up to standard.
You wouldn't have to implement full RFC though, just the basic TEL, and URL fields.

What is the most useful information to display at the front of the office?

The company I work for has just purchased 4 32" LCD screens to be mounted at the front of the office for demonstration purposes. Whilst we are not demonstrating (most of the time), the screens are to be used as development information screens for the whole team.
What information would people recommend displaying to be most useful to the team? Our focus is on hosted business web-apps but I am interested in what other teams doing other types of development find useful too. Pointers on how to gather the displayed information would be useful also.
Information about your continuous integration status.
Major Development Milestones that have been hit in the last week
Releases within the last month (including a short description why this release is awesome)
Use it as motivational board. The achievements of software development are seldom communicated well enough.
Since you're hosting apps for your customers, server and network status information would probably be useful.
Heck, why not create a "chat room" for the dev team to discuss issues and post a streaming version of that as well?
Schedule information, Scrum notes from that morning, a gantt chart...the possibilities abound.
Outstanding bugcount, sorted by priority and severity. You can likely get this from your bugtracking tool programmatically.
Depending on your process management
system, possibly a list of feature
requests and the percentage complete
on each of them. Again, you can probably get this programmatically from your process management / time tracking tool.
Time spent in the current development
cycle, and time remaining. Again, this should be available from your process / management / time tracking tool. You may want to use this data with your bugcounts as well to give a bugs / day fix rate.
If you're a public company with a
profit-sharing plan (i.e. stock or
options), the current price of the
stock (this can be surprisingly
strongly motivating). You can get stock data from several sources online programmatically (although a small delay may be injected unless you're paying for the service).
The movie 'Office Space'
Weather radar from intellicast.com
Latest Checkin.
Number of checkins per day
Number of customers that use software
Metrics on Bugs found/fixed and the ratio.
One screen could be an aggregated RSS feed of development topics pulled from sites such as Stack Overflow (or even Coding Horror). Not sure what your goal for these screens is, but I could see it useful to me if you had a feed with topics specific to your development team headlined. If I were there, I'd glimpse them, maybe catch an interesting thread, and go learn something. Funnel a bunch of keywords and tags through a Yahoo Pipe and dump it to the screen.
That's if they are more "informal and informational."
I think most popular pages from your webapp(s) would be a fun/interesting thing to show on a big monitor up front.
Another would be a live feed of your error reporting.
We have one monitor showing all meetings for the day, with start-end, subject, and room. I find this helpful, not only for my orientation, but also to see what other people do at our company.
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