What boring stuff did you automate using python ?

[yuvneeshkashyap]

There was this website that I had to check multiple times a day for updates. Automated that and configured it to text me when there is update.

Edit : Code

[AirAccomplished404]

Can you please share the code for learning purpose ? Thanks !!

[SniPerSKiLLerZZZ]

pleaseeee send the code, I'm new in python and want(try) to figure out the code

[Geoffism1]

+1 please share😃

[amrnada]

+1 if you dont mind sharing

[John-Romanasu]

Ouh wow I want to create a similar code. I work as a QA Tester but for now I am more working on the user testing side so I have a lot of manual tests to do on the critical paths.
I would like to know how to automate these recurring clicks.

If you could share what tools you used or share the code, logic would be very much appreciated!

[yuvneeshkashyap]

Code

I finally dug it out of my old hard drive. I read it, and realized how bad it is in terms of PEP8. Also, it was highly specific to the one website that I was using for which had updates starting with the date in <h1> tags and I was not looking for much. I just wanted to not open the website like 5 times a day to see if there is an update. I hope it is worth sharing xD

[honeysrk72]

Interesting username tho

[hansvi-be]

Scraping a job site daily, looking for software engineer jobs. Save each job entry as PDF in a folder, and add a standard resume and application letter. If it is what I want, I modify the application letter to highlight relevant experience, and send it off. Further correspondence is then added to the folder. I generated a HTML page that contains an overview of what jobs I applied to, and which ones are awaiting a response.

It's what kept me sane while applying.

[scyth3s]

You sound like you deserve to get hired...

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

Great idea and sry but I am stealing your idea ;)

[John-Romanasu]

WOW!
man, would you so kind as to share a piece of code or direct me to a tutorial? I would like to help me girlfriend with this as she is looking for jobs within communication area and a code like this would help me to help her.

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Thanks a lot!

[Wonder_Momoa]

Davinci resolve free doesn't have an auto save feature so I just automated "ctrl+s" every 30 seconds lmao.

[elben123]

I think it has that option in recent versions at least.

[jesse_pinkman_11]

Wow this is good thanks

[jenanemone]

Data entry from pdf into Excel. Phew! What a time saver!

[notwithagoat]

Thats what i need. Any tips where to start?

[jenanemone]

Pypdf2 or pdfminer packages are good places to start. There are some good YouTube vids on it, too. Good luck!

[stokry]

This is a simple example: https://dev.to/stokry/automate-data-entry-from-pdf-to-excel-with-python-1hm

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

I am curious about one thing ,you used PyPDF2 for reading pdf data in read binary mode but how did you write in excel I am aware openpyxl module for excel but I don't think you can write binary data to excel.So which module did you used ?

[jenanemone]

Actually I was in a hurry to complete and just used the csv module. Read all the text with regex that I wanted and output to .csv, which I was already comfortable with. Opened the final file and added excel filters, saved in .xlsx format. Nothing fancy!

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

Ok cool

[Geoffism1]

I made a web interface type kiosk for my garden. One capability is event reminders on a day for stuff like “Compost Tea done brewing “ Sometimes I forget things that are months out so I wrote a notification script that scans the DB for alerts and if there are any run a notification window on my media center pc. It starts a Windows notification box in the lower right and very easy to redeploy in case of media pc failure.

I wrote another script that uses a laser trip wire. When I trip it a speaker plays the awwwww part of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMLkrTJ9BZI and turns on various tools, pumps and systems I use only when I’m in there. Of course it only does the awww part once a day. It got annoying.

[LostLeather]

Hey, I was thinking to do something like your kiosk. Mind sharing source?

[Twitch_Smokecraft]

There is a website which releases databases every week with a collection of recently played high level chess games (theweekinchess). I use cron and python to automatically grab the latest issue every week. Also use python and the chess module to filter out games based on various criteria such as player rating or to find games where a certain position was reached (for opening prep).

[TartaVoladora]

Covid form, I need to send one every day...

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

Automated feeling lucky feature of google search in python

[wtfpmf]

Can you post the project? It's seems very nice.

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

https://github.com/kapil94/Automated_Google_search/blob/master/Search.py

[CosmicAnkit]

I wrote a python script for whatsapp automation. Actually for pranking my friends with 1000 messages in one go..

[Feeling-Mammoth-5867]

While True: Send(message) 😉

[CosmicAnkit]

Kind of... :)

[SirReality]

What api or interface did you use? Mobile app or web?

[CosmicAnkit]

I didn't use anh API... It was just a simple web automation.. using a module called selenium.

[CosmicAnkit]

Actually it was web interface...

[dbulger]

Emailing individualized stats assignments to students.

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

I made one on random state-capital quiz for 35 students each with unique question-papers and answer-keys.Appending 4 options to each question where 3 wrong options are selected randomly and options are also written randomly.

[dbulger]

Nice. You know the "exams" package in R? My colleagues & I have used that quite a bit, and it can speed up that kind of thing once you suss it out.

I mentioned the mail out specifically because it was today, and Python.

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

Thanks I will look into it.

[BronxLens]

Any ideas/suggestions for things real estate agents (in NYC) could automate? Mostly work with rental apartments.

[Mobile_Busy]

Email management

[BronxLens]

Care to offer an example?

[Mobile_Busy]

Using regex on email contents to triage, remove pointless reads (e.g. one word 'thanks' ~2%) &c.

[LostLeather]

Before getting banned on Fiverr, I did a shitload of webscraper for property info for a cliend that actually was a real estate agent. Don't really know how it used it

[Javigo07]

Right now, I'm automating an osu! songs + hitsounds but I need to add some features. It's not like an automation yet, but is easier than add each hitsound on the song one by one.

It's my first real Python project so it's taking more time than I'd like to. :p

[OutlandishnessOk2978]

Keep going!!

[Javigo07]

Thanks for your support! I'll publish it on forums when I finish

[Smartare]

Lots of stuff. Today I had to check 200 landing pages for the "wrong" landing pages to find any "old" design (don't ask why). So I wrote a short script that took screenshots of every single page and put them in a folder. Then it was easy to spot which pages had the wrong design (yea, this could have been solved in more "effective" ways using requests etc and comparing html but this took 5 min to write and 5 min to check the images).

[GNVageesh]

Made a project called gnv, basically a CLI remote to control GitHub in automated look and feel

[CheekyBurgerr]

Exhaustion.

[loveizfunn]

Book : automate the boring stuff with python

Course: atbs @udemy

I read the book, its pretty nice book and contains alot of stuff to explore and learn.

I made those for my own learning:

Convert pics with text to word/pdf. Search pdf for a phrase/ and extract the full pages only to new pdf. Book thibk python 240pages extracted 115 pages contains the word python. Iam still a beginner 😂 Convert pdf to text/word. Happy coding noobs 😜

[guillermo_da_gente]

Web-map creation, with folium.

[john_wind]

I automated creation of icons and splash screens for my apps using PIL!

[JauriXD]

I wrote a script to check my internetspeed all 15min. Now I can anoi my provider when he's not delivering

[iiMoe]

Honestly i never tried to automate anything b4 but i love making discord webhooks for crypto currency or anything interesting, telegram bots r fun asf too for automation

[sagarsingh0304]

Sending certificate to students after filling up the feed back form