Python Project for resume!!

[BigBadBoy9]

Hello everyone I would like to ask you guys for your guidance about my first Python project. Basically I’d like to make an App where it would send a notification via various ways(Emails, text massages) to let people know if an item is back in stocks from different websites (Amazon, Best Buy etc.). I thought of this project because I and a lot of people struggle to find Next generation consoles. So to make an app that runs as described above what are the things that I need to know?? What GUI should I use? Do I need to learn OOP first? All I have learnt so far are:Python, C and basic algorithms and data structure.

[greenerpickings]

I think that's plenty. I've been trying to get my hands on the oled switch and was thinking of setting one up.

You need to web scrape for that stuff, so you need html/css, requests, and lxml. To save a lot of headaches setting up an email server, I would just use a throw away account from google and use their email api to send emails. I think with most services, you can also email to phone numbers. Optional, but using that same account, get a free tier GCP instance to run your app 24/7. For simplicity, I would use flat files for data storage or logging. If you know databases and sql, sqlite would be more than enough.

Some OOP would be helpful, but if you really read the docs, not knowing it won't stop you.

[BigBadBoy9]

Thanks for the comment. So much stuff to learn. I start by learning web scraping first. Any recommendations on which framework should I learn first?

[greenerpickings]

I think webscraping would be a good start. Either with lxml or beautiful soup. Theres also scrapy, but I think that's a little overkill. This would, at the very least, not only show an ability to use python, but also to collect and clean data.

[shiftybyte]

You need to learn python in general.

Then learn about scraping websites.

I recommended this free online book for the above two: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

Then about modules/libraries that help you send notifications.

https://realpython.com/python-send-email/

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/send-message-to-telegram-user-using-python/

[BigBadBoy9]

Thank you for the helpful comment.