Using Python for Automation

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Python Courses Selenium Courses Web Scraping Courses APIs Courses File Management Courses Beautiful Soup Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to automate repetitive tasks using Python.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Sam Pettus and Madecraft

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