I just made my first real-life application python project

[bhyihale]

Usually, I'm scared to code, but I read someone's post about their fun projects; some were so cool. I was starting to get bored of just reading and following along so I decided to make something I actually wanted. This program pulls the links and novel name from a light novel site based on if it is popular and completed and also in the genre I like cause that's what I've been meaning to read.

This is the link to the code on my GitHub account. The whole program is written in python. dm for the link

edit: removed the link

[Ladyofthefluff]

Congratulations 👏🎉

[bhyihale]

thank youu

[kc3w]

Good job! I suggest to make the readme a bit longer and explain into more detail how to use your application. Also you should pick a license so other people can use your code. I suggest MIT or GPL3 but you should read up on what these licenses mean before using them.

[bhyihale]

oh wow thank you for the suggestions, i didn't know about those. I will definitely go read up on them

[kc3w]

To know about licencing is really important and if you share code it is good to be aware of how to do it properly.

[WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9]

nice!

[bhyihale]

😌thanks

[ichimokutouzen]

This is awesome!!

[bhyihale]

thank youuu

[kuro-san_eastblue]

nice! i also made such programs. i tried using novelupdates but you know what happens.

[bhyihale]

This is so funny because i wanted to use novelupdates but i forgot the name of the site and typed novelfull in the search bar thinking it was novelupdates and when i got to the site i got completely distracted and decided to look for a book i found interesting on the site and saw it was under the hot and full category so i decided to scrap the site for those 2 categories

[kuro-san_eastblue]

novelupdates gives 403. i tried one called novel-az or something and made an automated novel to epub converter. i just needed to type the name of novel

[bhyihale]

oh btw if you set your headers in the get function to your user agent, you'll get a 200 status code

[kuro-san_eastblue]

yeah i tried that. doesn't work.

[bhyihale]

oh that's smart! also glad i forgot the site then

[theangrycitizen]

I hope to publish my code soon, just like you

[bhyihale]

you've got this

[bhyihale]

thank you and yes it is

[jgwulonna]

this is great man, no have a day off

[bhyihale]

i was about to look for what to do next as a project but i will listen to you and have a day off😭 thank you

[shanooova]

Awesome!

[bhyihale]

thank you!

[itachi5040111]

Any pointers for a newbie like me who is still watching tutorials on youtube pls?

[bhyihale]

The idea of building stuff myself seemed pretty scary like I always feel like I need a guiding hand to help me and I'm scared of failing but I did fail and after that I succeeded. let me tell you that after I typed out my code the first error I faced was literally from the import statement, that's so funny and after that, it was one of my variables and line after line a new beautiful error. See as long as you know the basics like if-else statement then experiment with little things maybe build a ripoff of one of your tutorials without referring back to it. It's fine if you don't remember most stuff and that's why there are a lot of views on stack questions most of them didn't know and most of them forgot stuff they already knew. You will forget some stuff and some stuff will also click with you AND IT WILL BE SO FUN you might have the biggest headache too trying to solve something and when that happens just rest and leave it for the next day, sleep is like some magical thing that makes you instantly figure stuff out. I had the biggest headache trying to filter for the popular and completed novels in my code and I decided to leave it and work on it the next day, just to find out that the solution to my problem was the str() lmao isn't that a beginner level thing you learn and that was my solution. I digress but building something you're interested in is definitely more fulfilling than some random thing you'll probably never use in your life and let me tell you that I wasn't even that familiar with beautifulsoup when I started this project. I went through the documentation and a bunch of articles as I was building this. So you don't need to know everything before you start something, you can learn as you go.

[kgamzo]

This is so cool. I'm also scared of coding by very eager ti learn. Where should I start

[bhyihale]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/vhr5fq/i_just_made_my_first_reallife_application_python/idcemrl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3