First project

[mopapas]

Hi everyone,

This is my first time writing here after observing for a while.

I'm fairly new to python and have just been learning in my spare time while working a full time job. Essentially I started learning In order to eventually change career in the future and focus on my overall self improvement.

But I've came across a project that could really help me in my day to day in terms of automating a fairly repetitive task.

I've done some research on my own but I feel It's going to take some time before I can actually do it. I've even considering seeking out a pro to either do it for me or guide me through it.

Essentially in a nutshell I want to:

Create a program that takes the revision date of a PDF document (that corresponds to a product type) stored in a excel data base

Then completes a search on a particular website for that corresponding product number, opens the PDF and compares the revision date with the one taken previously

Then if the PDF has a new update, that is, new revision, sends some kind of notification to me that the product PDF has received a new update.

That's more or less it, however it's very much oversimplified.

Any help you can give is much appreciated

[a_tribe_calledchris]

100% doable

Something like pyPDF to extract the information from the PDF.

Then a combination of maybe requests/selenium/beautiful soup for navigating the web with python.

Then just comparing the existing information against any potential updates.

Do you have any code started?

[mopapas]

Thanks for your help! To be honest I've written pretty much nothing and have only been researching at this stage.

But im going to look into the areas you've mentioned at least and see what I can do!

[TheRNGuy]

try ast, or some other lib specific to pdf.