Aberdeen Python User Group 12 Nov 2025

This month we have two great presentations on projects from the recent Inform Prize. 1. Search Aberdeen Registers The "Search Aberdeen Registers" project is a web search and querying tool for text and image records of 14th century Aberdeen. The solution the students developed replaces a previous paid-for Elasticsearch implementation with bespoke, extensible, and faster algorithms. They'll share insights into how they built this production-ready environment using Python, JavaScript, PHP, XML, and Docker on an Oracle server. 2. Ape Scrape ApeScrape is an AI powered mass web scraping tool. It allows the user to collect consistently formatted data from lots of websites at once with minimal setup, by using AI to extract the data from webpages. Following the talks there will be the opportunity to work on coding challenges related to these topics. If you don’t already have Python set up, we can help you with that too. Coding in pairs or small groups (especially mixing beginner and more experiences coders) is strongly encouraged, though you can also code solo. ---------------------- This is our first session in our new premises, which is still a work in progress. That means that our disability access is not what we want it to be. If you are uncomfortable, or unable to use stairs, please book an online ticket for the Zoom session. We are working to improve this but it will take a few months. This event is orgnanised by a charity - Code The City. We suggest a small donation to help with charity admin costs, but if this is a barrier please just change the ticket price to what you can afford. We're now back to running physical events backed up with an online option. If you select a physical ticket and it happens that we can not meet physically you will have to attend the Zoom session. Those attending the physical space meetup should attend at 6pm for pizza and drinks. The coding session (for online attendees) will be from 6.30pm. Doors will be locked from 6.30pm. **If tickets are sold out please do not attend as you will be refused entry without a ticket. ** Our booking system is provided by Tito. Their platform is integrated with payment processing by Stripe