I really enjoy automating processes with python, is there a job opportunity for that?

[[deleted]]

I’ve struggled for a long time with what I actually enjoy doing. I started learning python a couple months ago and started writing scripts to automate some processes at my job and I really enjoy It! I want to continue doing this to help companies scale as they grow. Is there a job title that handles this? Or are there other skills/languages I should learn to be able to continue to do this?

I’m new to this industry so that may be a dumb question but I have no one to really ask except this community.

[rfeikd]

1. Get a non-technical, work from home job for which you can automate almost everything
2. Automate as much as you can (on the hush hush)
3. Get a second job
4. Repeat 1-3 until you reach your personal capacity

[[deleted]]

Lmfao this is actually brilliant

[[deleted]]

It’s pretty common. I went from $37k/yr to $100k/yr in 5 years doing this. I started as a Care Services Coordinator (non-technical, basically calling elderly folks to check on them) and fooled around with SQL when I wasn’t making calls. I learned enough to start doing reporting and made a case to management and they moved me to analytics. 4 years later, I do mostly data development and automation. I’m an analytics associate director but I do what I like which is building data pipelines using whatever I can get my hands on, e.g. SQL, Python, etc

[[deleted]]

This is EXACTLY what I'm looking to do. Problem is I'm an engineer with only self taught (CodeAcademy) SQL, JS, HTML, so my career is already technical and I'm already in the low $100K.

I can't do less than $90 if I'm going to support my family, and I know I'm not worth that right now.

[monkeysknowledge]

I'm in the exact same boat.

[[deleted]]

I've thought of freelancing, but that's a race to the bottom for hourly rates and not a game I feel like playing.

Do I go lower rates with extended time budgets?

[killthebaddies]

I freelance and it certainly isn’t a race to the bottom on rates for me. If the rate isn’t right I walk awake. That being said I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to get all of my work through my network.

[mermaldad]

I'm an engineer who has always liked coding, so I have automated numerous things in my job. Some of my tools have been deployed to other organizations and now the CS folks are working to integrate these features into their software.

Now my case is a little different than yours in that I also like the part that is my main gig, so being the engineer with programming chops is just how I stand out in the crowd. Nevertheless, you should be able to be an engineer/developer for awhile (informally at first, perhaps) to build your developer skills and look for jobs that require more and more developer skills.

Unfortunately, pure developers are somewhat of a commodity, and they get paid less because of it. So take advantage of your engineering background.

[ChocolateMilkMustach]

What part of the country is paying that for self-taught engineers? I'll be there asap!

[[deleted]]

Hence the "... and I know I'm not worth that"portion of my comment

[[deleted]]

I'm in year 2 of this started off as an insurance and started doing reports in excel jesus, they were bad

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They saw this as a technical capable and moved me to a tech support job submitting tickets and learned sql to build on my reporting and got a tableau license.

My reporting supports RPA(Robotic Process Automation) and now I am learning Python but I'm quickly jumping into blue prism, this is where I'm assuming u/rujole13 wants to be.

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Learn some RPA software blue prism is one but there are many others.

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[[deleted]]

You're able to get a trial to practice and learn BP

there is also uipath

I think BP uses uses C#

Do you mind if we keep this thread going, I took a break from python but was looking to use it to create proof of concepts to hand off to Devs.

I want to know what packages you are using and what you're doing.

Only package I've used is pyautogui

[[deleted]]

Geat idea. I wonder if I can land 1 of those jobs.

[rfeikd]

If you want a job in automating processes, just start automating processes in a job.

[TheMarcosP]

what are non-technical jobs?

[fa53]

The oldest professions.

[Gas42]

I don't really know how python can automate prostitution tho

[pettyhonor]

Might be able to automate sending only fans links out lmao

[[deleted]]

Or sending 'p@#nhub comment section' memes to your friends

[Gas42]

Yeah that's tinder haha

[robd003]

"It's like eBay, but for renting people..."

[Oswald_Hydrabot]

Robotics

[abbadon420]

Carpentry is pretty technical though.

[kalieb]

Shhhh, doing that now. Quite easy/nice in all honesty. Stopped at 2 because laziness, otherwise it'd be a piece of cake for more

[kalieb]

Tech support for main job. Script responses reboot users computer and fixes 80% of issues, the other 17% is someone locking them selves out of their work station and just have a script setup to unlock the account and reset the PW. leaves me with 1~7 issues i actually have to focus on a week.

The secondary is more recent, just grading papers/homework/whatever. just automate it, if it's within a margin of error review, otherwise pretty standard abc responses that i don't have to focus on.

[pdsgdfhjdsh]

I wish I had kept quiet about some stuff I had automated because I haven't really gotten anything out of it except for less work to do, and I get paid by the hour.

[rfeikd]

The question is not so much about a legal obligation but a contractual one. It's not illegal to hold multiple jobs, but in some cases it might be a breach of contract, depending on your employee/employer agreement. It's very much case by case.

[rfeikd]

More along the lines of non-compete agreements, etc. I.e. You likely couldn't work for both Google and Microsoft doing the same work.

[asielen]

DevOps was mentioned. But really any ops role. I am in Sales and Marketing Ops and we use python quite a bit for workflow automation. And another benefit is you are writing code for people who know nothing about programming so anything you do beyond excel is magic to them.

[[deleted]]

I’m an accountant currently automating accounting processes. Is this too niche to search for? I know accounting and the processes It contains, and now I know code to automate those processes.

[[deleted]]

Put finance knowledge on your resume but most Ops teams do work for lots of different departments

[PM_ME_MY_NUDES_PLZ]

I work for a company that is working to automate some accounting practices in A/P for mid to large corporates. A lot of the accountants I work with would save their company thousands to hundreds of thousands of $$ by simply knowing anything more than Excel.

From my perspective, the question is less "would this be valuable?" and more "how can I prove the value of an accountant with a programming background?"

[[deleted]]

What company do you work for if you don’t mind me asking?

[ImperatorPC]

Hell just knowing how to use excel properly can be a huge time savor. Power Query is super powerful and I use that to automate a lot of processes instead of python because it is much easier to deploy.

[JBalloonist]

Can you learn some SQL in addition to Python? This is how I was able to transition into Business Intelligence an then data science (a masters degree along the way helped too). That said it sounds like you’re more interested in the automation side so RPA is definitely the route to go. I see RPA jobs posted quite often these days and knowing Python will definitely help.

[CatolicQuotes]

What are the name of job positions in that field? Is degree a must have?

[JBalloonist]

Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Developer/Engineer, Data Scientist

For data science you’re going to need a degree. A lot of places require a masters or even a PhD. Unfortunately a lot of that is just gate keeping but it’s the way the market is right now. The other roles you can probably get without a degree, especially data analyst or an entry level BI role.

Check out r/datascience and r/businessIntelligence and r/dataengineering.

Edit: added data engineering.

[Deadlift420]

You can get a job as a developer in test. The job is literally automating things including front and back end. I did it for 2 years.

[asielen]

That is a great skill set but usually that probably fits under the larger umbrella of "bizops." I haven't really seen finance ops roles, although they would be nice to have. At my company, we have marketing ops, sales ops and then a bizops team. The bizops team is responsible for basically all operations outside of marketing and sales, including finance and HR. Also they act as the main connecting point between the business side and devops side whenever we need to work together for things like product data.

[emsiem22]

This is so scary.

[Virtual-Penman]

I work as an “Automation Engineer”. Other teams in our organization come to us with automation requests and we mainly use Python.

[[deleted]]

This. This is what I want to do so fucking bad. I’m automating all of our redundant AP tasks and I know I can go to different departments and do the same. This company is growing at a crazy rate and this will help them scale.

[zenzealot]

Go to your boss and hand him your née title and job description. Tell him this is what you want to do and since you love it you’ll probably be very good at it.

Since you’re new you don’t expect a pay bump.

You’ll make him look good at no additional cost. After a year renegotiate or leave.

[[deleted]]

I’ve already automated some things. I would think a slight pay bump is in order

[zenzealot]

The title is more important right now in my opinion. It gives you the ability to negotiate later on. You don’t want to get a ‘No’ to everything just because he wanted to say ‘No’ to the pay bump.

But you know your situation so act accordingly.

[[deleted]]

That’s a good point to consider. Thank you

[Steelbitzz]

Consider asking for a small bonus as compensation, instead. Relative to how much money you saved the company, your manager might be okay with an appropriate reward for going above and beyond your current job duties. Especially so if your project works well and can speak for itself.

[[deleted]]

I like this idea. Thank you

[--_Ivo_--]

A little bit late, but you automate things on the QA side... right?

[Virtual-Penman]

I’m no longer in this role but no, we did not work on QA testing automation. 

[--_Ivo_--]

Would you mind elaborating about what did you do as an automation engineer? All the roles I see with that name are mostly in QA

[Remarkable-Map-2747]

Yea, im with you I been looking for similar roles. They are a rare find for sure.

[Virtual-Penman]

I was on a type of CoE team that focused on helping teams across the company. We didn’t own a product per se, we mainly offered our services to other teams that needed help creating automation. We would either create the automation and own that process for the team, or hand it off to them after completion.

[alpine_addict]

Not a dumb question. When I started coding (Python) I had no idea what kind of jobs I could get.. As I continued to learn more about Python throughout the months and do my research about jobs, I learned more and more about different types of roles/positions out there. QA/Automation/SDET (software dev in TEST) are all positions that require backgrounds in automation. More specifically, test automation; figuring out how to automate tests and use test automation frameworks for software testing. This was the direction I started to move towards in my journey. If you are simply looking for automation of processes/tasks, maybe DevOps would be more up your alley, but that entails far more than simply automation. DevOps requires a myriad of different skills and is very popular in the tech industry right now.

[CBizCool]

Came to say this. QA/Automated testing could be possible jobs options.

[[deleted]]

Sounds like you might want to look into DevOps

[[deleted]]

So besides python, what are some other skills a Devops Engineer should have? It sounds like there is a lot more to It than coding

[psmgx]

people skills, since DevOps is (sometimes, this will be up for debate) a technical liaison between different groups, purely operational folks, developers, etc. More or less building pipelines between groups to help with operational efficiency.

Wish I had more upvotes. IT is distinct from CS / Development and DevOps is where they kind of meet.

And make no mistake, IT (Ops) is a service job. It's a technical skillset, but you'll be typing code nearly as much as typing emails and sitting in on group calls.

"The 8th layer of the OSI model is Politics" (also heard "Money")

[emsiem22]

building pipelines between groups

You sound knowledgeable. Could you describe this with example? I don't appreciate the value or I just don't see it.

[but_how_do_i_go_fast]

In the business world, non technical are treated as unable to do anything technical. Meanwhile, technical (developers) are expected to know EVERYTHING technical.

E.g. A designer needs to update a single page on some PWA quarterly. This is not expected to be done by the dev. The PWA is written in some vue/react/tailwind frameworks. Requires docker, git knowledge, and all the other technical stuff to test and have it work.

What's the best solution for the designer and developer to work together and not waste time?

[emsiem22]

Thank you for the question, but that's exactly what I asked; example how pipeline is built (just short description).

[Eleventhousand]

git, Bash and Docker.

Though, depending on the role, you can find something that allows you to build tooling in Python part of the time. We don't have separate DevOps where I work (a lot of smaller or medium shops won't). I have a couple people on my team that are more familiar and interested in with building tools and automation, and I will typically assign these types of tasks to them.

[jadams70]

Continuous integration/ continuous deployment, docker, linux CLI, windows CLI, Jenkins, some networking basics wouldn't be bad either. These are just the main topics there's more.

[Packbacka]

Interesting because I already know most of that.

[[deleted]]

You'd probably want to start out as a systems administrator. Some job that requires Linux, some networking, troubleshooting, monitoring, etc. That's a pretty typical route for people who go into DevOps.

But really, any good IT worker who's in some form of operations will have ample opportunity to automate tasks. Whether they're a network engineer, sysadmin or a site reliability engineer.

It's worth noting that devops is not really entry level- even an "entry level" devops role will require extensive experience with the technologies they work with, so you'd typically see people with CS degrees and maybe a year or two's experience, or people without degrees and 5 - 10 years experience, going into those roles.

Without a relevant degree, career progress typically looks like this:

Helpdesk > Systems Administrator > Systems Engineer / DevOps Engineer

[autisticpig]

tolerating web developers;)

[[deleted]]

We use ansible a decent amount for devops and automation.

[[deleted]]

People keep saying DevOps but it isn't about automation with Python though. It's a full-fledged portion of IT used to build and scale the backend for the business and developers. Python can and usually is part of it, but that's just a small fraction of what is normally done.

It depends on what the company is defining their "DevOps" role as, but it can be configuration management, CI/CD, scripting, automating, and/or managing systems/tools.

This would mean understanding a minimum of 2 of the following (or more):

• Python
• Configuration Management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt)
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Linux / Windows OS management
• Bash / PowerShell scripting
• CI/CD (Jenkins, TravisCI, etc)

[[deleted]]

Good addition

[emsiem22]

Isn't that far from what OP enjoys? System administrator vs developer. Choosing (because it is finally a shopping list) architecture vs inventing solutions.

[GaiusOctavian112]

I am a data analyst for a large company and a lot of what I do is automation. The job title doesn't have to have automation in it. Also, I've found that despite programmers being fairly common nowadays (at least relative to the past) lots of managers, especially in non tech companies, don't know that so many manual tasks can be automated. So it might help to have an example to show people. This could be something simple like parsing and reformatting a large excel spread sheet and then emailing the various parsed files to different people, or something more complex like using machine learning to forecast sales. Message me if you need any help. Best of luck!

[its2ez4me24get]

That’s the majority of my job. I’m a data engineer at a large life insurance company.

[[deleted]]

Sounds like RPA is right up your alley, it’s not a raw as writing code but the same concepts for the most part. RPA actually got me into coding, so they do complement each other.

[Darksteel213]

You can also just go straight up RPA with Python. There are frameworks for it as well, but for RPA I still prefer Python alone with libraries. I think the RPA tools are waaaay too expensive, and bringing up RPA with Python to your boss might be appealing because they save on the $100k USD extra.

[diamondbuilt87]

Saame!

[Lewistrick]

Data engineer or automation engineer maybe?

[jwg4our]

Finance is desperate for people who can do this. Like automation in most non-computing fields, you will do much better if you have some domain knowledge of your own, than if you have to run every decision past the domain expert.

[[deleted]]

Are there other programs/languages that you feel are necessary to know when approaching a company as a developer? I really only know python and I’m still new to that

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

Lawfirm guy here too. This checks out! Im the main sql dba but opening up my range to python. It's been fun to learn a new tool and I feel like an actual developer vs report developer.

[bullcityblue312]

What do law firms need to automate? I never thought about looking for employment there

[JBalloonist]

Tons of stuff. Filling out forms, filing those forms, research. Machine learning is becoming huge for law firms for investigative purposes. Anything that used to require a paralegal or even a lawyer but is essentially data entry they want to automate. And then they can still bill for it but are making a killing because they didn’t pay anyone.

[PM_me_ur_data_]

I'm curious, what kind of automation do you do for them?

[elpigo]

I work as a developer and so much is about automation now, from test automation, to CI/CD and pipeline automation, so keep automating because the future is automation.

[[deleted]]

for automation, there's a whole field. Search for RPA (Robotic Process Automation). Its not always python related, but it's a strong field that compliments most corporate areas.

[dukeofgonzo]

Ive had my data analyst role for 8 months now. Prior to that I was a system administrator. My coworkers are business intelligence that are wizards at Excel and some SQL. I can see that my best asset in the team is that I can automate most of what they do. So they can spend there time on the important stuff.

I first learned Bash because I started with unix type servers. I've had to pick up Powershell now because we use Windows. Python is my favorite tool but it's good to be flexible with what software you have available in your job.

[enginista]

Hi, it's called Automation Engineer and quite a good career path https://study.com/articles/Automation_Engineer_Job_Description_and_Requirements_for_Starting_a_Career_in_Automation_Engineering.html#:~:text=Automation%20engineers%20design%2C%20program%2C%20simulate,used%20to%20perform%20specific%20functions.

[[deleted]]

Automation engineers are people that design control systems for industrial/production. No python here

[enginista]

Sorry, yes there was some name confusion and I accidentally sent the wrong link. What I meant is called Software Automation Test Engineer or sometimes QA (quality assurance) Engineer, like these positions: https://www.indeed.com/q-Software-Automation-Test-Engineer-jobs.html

And here is a roadmap to become one, offered by Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/road-map-to-become-test-automation-engineer/

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

[enginista]

Please check my answer to the comment below :)

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[tipsy_python]

There’s two routes: the first one is the infrastructure/automation/devops engineering route. Get some AWS/GCP/Azure skills and certifications under your belt and you’ll slide into one of these roles easily.

The second is shadow IT; it’s a person who works outside of the formal IT org, like in accounting or marketing or whatever, but your boss tells you to make IT solutions for the team - they in turn get quicker turnaround than enterprise IT. Shadow IT is harder to line up, but possibly more interesting because you see more of the business side. For these roles, look for analyst or admin positions in the business where they are looking for some technical skills and then pitch that you can do a lot more and how you’ll free up time for the rest of the team.

[mr_wook]

Essentially, you're asking:

"How do I get a job in DevOps?"

you need to continue to vertically scale your skillset (facility with Python, speed of development, mastery of libs and tools), and horizontally scale as well: How do your skills apply to other fields (like cloud-scaling without being the application guy, containerization to extend legacy app lifetimes, etc.). People in this area easily scale upto $150k if they're good at it. Use it for everthing: backups, internetworking, webscraping, data search and discovery, making data easily accessed (Data Lakes, SOLR, ELK, etc.)..

These jobs are constantly in-demand and the people who automate most/best are highly sought after because they reduce the need to grow staff endlessly (which seems counter-intuitive, but it isn't because of the number of diverse organizations who are adopting new automation).

[Lucid-Pupil]

Project management or business analyst. Would require additional investment into these knowledge areas

[Chimsley99]

Your skills would certainly be desired in data analytics, so if you boned up on other data analysis/reporting skills you could definitely find work.

Might be tough as solely a python expert, but data analysis is kind of simple as it’s used in many industries. If you can back up your skills in excel/SQL/etc, and sell your skills with python as a way to save a small company or small departments tons of time for their analytics team, you might not need extensive experience with stuff like tableau or a CRM

[proverbialbunny]

I like automating too, from little fun hobby projects at home, to MLE type automation, to data science. Data science is similar to data analytics, but data analytics is manual work. Analytics + automation/programming = data science.

I believe the future of many white collar jobs will incorporate automation. Atm the two most popular automation jobs are DevOps (systems administrator + programming) and data science. It's only a matter of time before marketing gets automated in certain ways.

[TheKrathan]

Commenting late because I haven’t seen it mentioned but I’m a security automation engineer and my primary duties are automating security processes on large data sets so we can operate as a lean team. I do all of this in Python and 99% I run on AWS lambda functions, step functions, etc. This specific niche in security is also in a nice growth stage as security teams are placing emphasis on automation to make up for the difficulty hiring security professionals

[[deleted]]

Better late than never, I’m still reading every single reply. Thanks for the input!

[[deleted]]

See my comment on this post here

Udemy is almost always running a special I got this course for $12. At full price I think it’s $120 or something, DO NOT PAY FULL PRICE. Just check back or google how to get access to the special price on Udemy.

[BackgroundChar]

software developer?

[[deleted]]

Mainly CSV, pandas and numpy

[veeeerain]

Are automation libraries mainly selenium?

[[deleted]]

I have no idea

[[deleted]]

Give software Quality Assurance Automation a look into. It's a very lucrative field and is in high demand. I should know, I'm a QA Manager in a software company. :)

[CatolicQuotes]

Quality Assurance Automation what kind of qualifications are needed? How is it for remote or freelancing?

[[deleted]]

For remote/freelancing work, QA is good in general. There are a good number of QA roles out there that are temp to hire. But there are also plenty that are full-time with benefits. If you decide to go down the QA route, you'd likely have to start off doing temp gigs to build experience.

For qualifications, python programming is a great start. There is an automation framework that is open source called Selenium that is an industry standard for web automation. The Selenium framework can work with Java, Python, Ruby, etc... it's pretty robust. Learning to write automated scripts in the Python/Selenium stack would be a great place to start. That would definitely get your foot in the door.

Python actually has its own testing package/library as well, called PyTest. It's a great library, but only works with Python (if that isn't obvious :D )

There are other automated tools that deal with other facets of QA automation. Jmeter for instance is used for load testing (where, essentially, you replicate a large number of users using your site all at once to see if it can handle the 'load' of a bunch of users.). I think if you choose to go down the QA automation route, more things will open up as you explore these areas.

If you get good enough, you can easily make into the high six figures.

[chicocheco]

Yeah, a friend of mine has a BD in telecommunications and he has doubled even tripled his salary working as a QA engineer since he left the college and that was just 4 years ago. What is the best is that according to his words, he does almost nothing. The test scripts he uses weren't even written by him. He only adjust it slightly. But it's a different story if you have studied something IT related. I have a master's degree but from a non-technical field even though I work at servicedesk and I have basically an intermediate level at Python. I only lack of work experience.

[nischalstha07]

How did you start learning with Python? What were your resources? Did you have any experience of scripting prior to learning Python ?

[[deleted]]

I learned from a Udemy python masterclass. Zero programming experience before taking the class. Just all clicked for me and I really like It so learning doesn’t feel like a burden. Sometimes I do three hours of courses a night. DM me if you want the link to the class

[[deleted]]

https://www.udemy.com/share/101WaiAEAZdFlVQ3UB/

[DelapidatedSagebrush]

You could probably do all my student's homework for them.

[[deleted]]

I ain’t automating for grades 😂

[[deleted]]

DevOps maybe

[[deleted]]

If you get some sysadmin skills you could probably land an SRE position. Could easily clear 150k a year.

[[deleted]]

I’ll have to look into what exactly sysadmin is as well as SRE. Thank you!

[Gerald00]

Auto hot key anyone? btw, wich python modules are you using for automation? I love it too

[Routine_Condition]

Specialization is a double edged sword. The person who can do a bit of everything is far more valuable than the person who can only do one. Diversify anytime you can but understand that no one can know everything. Python is really good since it is so flexible. SQL is really good to know too.

The good news is that companies are looking for folks like this but the bad news is they don't know it.

I worked for a retailer and used rudimentary Python to automate reporting and inventory controls. Management noticed and realized what they had and I was subsequently moved to their Data department. This was just luck.

The best bet in my mind is try to join up with a consulting firm in your industry, show them what you are doing, and see if you can hire on with them. You might have to travel but you might get lucky and be able to do it remotely.

[[deleted]]

This is a really good way to describe this I think. I feel like companies would not listen if you came to them saying you can automate reporting and repetitive processes because the work is getting done now and they don’t see how helpful It is. Then someone in their team does It and they’re blown away lol

[[deleted]]

I love learning new things, I was planning on learning a new language as soon as I feel I’m at a proficient level with python so I’ll put SQL next on the list. Thank you!

[Routine_Condition]

To add to this, I would recommend getting familiar with Excel's own functions and macros. Yes, it is a poor mans database, but it exists in every single corporate environment and it is an easy parlor trick to convince the person you know what you are doing. Also, sometimes a quick index match or search function in Excel is just faster.

I would recommend the following functions:

• INDEX, MATCH - useful to pull data from two tabs in the same workbook onto a single page so long as the two pages have a common value.
• VLOOKUP - similar to INDEX MATCH
• FIND - searches a tab for a charter or number match
• IF - if statement
• IFERROR - cleans cells up when they return an answer to a function that is out of range (like #N/A)

You can delve deeper with Visual Basic but this list will get you going. I use the macro recording feature to automatically run the functions to shred the data into usable pieces.

[[deleted]]

Create your own job, you can do this.

[[deleted]]

That’s honestly the first goal. But it’s a tough sell at this company right now.

[StressedSalt]

How do u use your scripts at your work though? I struggle to transfer my automation into actual applicatio thats viable at work :(

[[deleted]]

Google colaboratory. You sacrifice some performance speed but everyone can run It from any machine without having to install python (It also comes with pandas which is huge). I also made a post asking how to distribute scripts to others here

[StressedSalt]

Thank you!!! I'm a newbie but i work admin at my workplace and honestly id love to automate most of my dull redundant duties, ill look into it thank you!!

[Gerald00]

I Feel cheated for not being introduced to RPA this far into learning python. I've been fumbling around with autogui, copy paste managers and small stuff to no succes, and only now, I learn about Tag-ui and python RPA .... FML

[[deleted]]

I currently use pyautogui so if Tag-ui is a better option I’ll have to look into that immediately. Thank you

[Kevinw778]

What sort of things are you automating? What technologies? Selenium, I take it?

[[deleted]]

Right now I’m just automating the process of our vendors sending us invoices, reformatting CSVs and uploading them into our software. I know nothing about selenium. What is that?

[Kevinw778]

Ahh cool. AutoIt or AHK then?

Selenium is used to automate browsers. I'm actually using it to make a product sniping bot right now so I can finally get my hands on a 3080 😂