raspberry pi + xbmc + amazon prime instant

The amazon instant video streaming launched their services in germany about one month ago. I don’t have a playstation or a xbox to stream it directly to my tv so i wanted to stream it via my raspberry pi using xbmc. I could not find a plugin so I decided to make one by myself. […]

broken links when fetching url with urllib2 python ISO-8859-15 to utf-8

I had a little annoying issue which was a simple encoding error. I’m not a python expert and i tried to read a webpage via urllib2 in python. Let’s see what i did: import urllib2 req = urllib2.Request(url) response = urllib2.urlopen(req) content = response.read() response.close() When i tried to work with my webpage i got […]