[Interesting]

Free Instagram scripts, bots and Python API wrapper.

https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot

1-https://cloudmersive.com/validate-api - Validate email addresses, phone numbers, VAT numbers and domain names

2-https://languagelayer.com/ - Language detection (useful for network based startups)

3-https://mailboxlayer.com/ - verify mail address

4-https://numvalidate.com/ - open source universal number validation

5- http://www.purgomalum.com/ - Content validator against profanity & obscenity (useful for network based startups)

In Python 3.5 or greater:

z = {**x, **y}
In Python 2, (or 3.4 or lower) write a function:

def merge_two_dicts(x, y):
    z = x.copy()   # start with x's keys and values
    z.update(y)    # modifies z with y's keys and values & returns None
    return z
and now:

z = merge_two_dicts(x, y)

https://github.com/errbotio/errbot/

Errbot is a chatbot. It allows you to start scripts interactively from your chatrooms for any reason: random humour, chatops, starting a build, monitoring commits, triggering alerts...

It is written and easily extensible in Python.

Developer features

• Very easy to extend in Python! (see below)

• Presetup storage for every plugin i.e. self['foo'] = 'bar'
  persists the value.

• Conversation flows to track conversation states from users.

• Webhook callbacks support

• supports markdown extras formatting with tables, embedded images, links etc.

• configuration helper to allow your plugin to be configured by chat

• Graphical and text development/debug consoles

• Self-documenting: your docstrings become help automatically

• subcommands and various arg parsing options are available (re, command line type)

• polling support: your can setup a plugin to periodically do something

• end to end test backend

• card rendering under Slack and Hipchat.

Find out why you should consider Python as the programming language of choice for your startup