Transferring/Uploading Data from DB to WordPress

Since you are building the scraping functionality outside of WordPress, you will have to use a way that allows you to add contents to WordPress from the outside as well. I basically see three options: Update via the REST API – Using the REST API you can post updates to the WordPress contents. You can … Read more

Sending posts from Python to WordPress

Use the REST API at /wp-json, there are endpoints for retrieving posts that you can POST to. You will need a plugin installed to provide authentication, I recommend OAuth2. Then, you can use an OAuth2 and a REST API library in python. You do not need to use a WordPress specific library.

Site searches by Python for non-existent assets

What are the python searches? Are they like bad bots? Most probably just “bad bots” searching for potential vulnerabilities. How do I block or prevent them? Well, you are already serving a 404 by the sounds of it, so it’s really a non-issue. However, you can prevent the request from going through WordPress by blocking … Read more

Run Python Script on WordPress Website

This issue of permission denied is resolved.. Permission was already given but I have added ‘env python’ in the popen function.. Now the code is running as expected.. add_shortcode( ‘run_test_py’, ‘test_py’ ); function test_py( $attributes ) { $data = shortcode_atts( [ ‘file’ => ‘test.py’ ], $attributes ); $handle = popen(‘env python ‘. __DIR__ . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” … Read more

Running a python script within wordpress

You can use popen() to read or write to a Python script (this works with any other language too). If you need interaction (passing variables) use proc_open(). A simple example to print Hello World! in a WordPress plugin Create the plugin, register a shortcode: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /* Plugin Name: Python embedded … Read more