Using Python for Automation

Introduction

• Automate everything with Python
• Course prerequisites

1. Automate File, Folder, and Terminal Interactions

• Using Python for file automation
• How to read files
• How to write files
• Executing terminal commands
• Organizing directories

2. Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

• The value of web scraping
• Creating a request and parsing
• Exploring HTML structure
• How to isolate data
• Preparing for paginated scraping
• Scraping paginated content

3. Automate Web Browsing with Selenium

• Automating web browsing
• Basic browser interactions
• Handling drag and drop
• Selenium wait functions
• Selenium explicit wait functions

4. Automating with APIs

• Understanding API calls
• Creating API requests
• Parsing through JSON
• Using API keys
• Linking API calls

Conclusion

• Next steps