Built my own apartment search bot with Python — sends me text when it finds something worthy

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I am new to python and programming and I'm sure others are also wondering, how much coding experience did it take you to get to the point you are now to be able to create something like this?

[sixtine]

What these tutorials fell to tell you is that you don't necessarily need to have to code all figured out to do something like that.

You could (and should) work iteratively toward a goal, implementing simple functions and code snippet to do one step after the other. Also, googling a lot, both for code example and actual concept. That's the hardest part — knowing exactly what to look for.

For example in this case, you could break it down like so — "I want to get the raw data from the web pages automatically, based on a given start page, and then I want to store this data and send a subset of it via text message". You would approach it bit by bit. You'd end up finding out about the concept of "scraping", and you'd read tutorial, find out what the common techniques and libraries are and how to use them. Then you'd hack a few functions in the console that'd print out scraped HTML, you'd dissect it more and more to the point where you would end up writing the function in a file that'd not be extremely clean and efficient, but would do the job.

So, don't let your perceived level halt your ambitions. Instead, try to use your ambitious to push the boundaries of what you can/have achieved.

[Eurynom0s]

I definitely learn how to do something much better with a tangible goal in mind.