Python Automation Tutorial – How to Automate Tasks for Beginners [Full Course]
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Learn how to use Python automation to perform common tasks. In this full course you will learn how to build the following automation projects: - Hacker News Headlines Emailer - TED Talk Downloader - Table Extractor from PDF - Automated Bulk Resume Parser - Image Type Converter - Building an Automated News Summarizer 💻 Code: https://github.com/amrrs/build_tools_to_automate_python ✏️ Course from 1littlecoder. Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/1littlecoder ❤️ Try interactive Python courses we love, right in your browser: https://scrimba.com/freeCodeCamp-Python (Made possible by a grant from our friends at Scrimba) ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ ⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction ⌨️ (0:00:29) Hacker News Headlines Emailer - Tutorial 1 ⌨️ (0:01:13) Introduction to Web Scraping ⌨️ (0:03:08) Setting up the Environment ⌨️ (0:06:30) Project Script ⌨️ (0:11:00) Website Structure of Hacker News FrontPage ⌨️ (0:21:00) Sending Email from Python ⌨️ (0:35:15) Building the Headlines Email Module ⌨️ (0:39:07) TED Talk Downloader - Tutorial 2 ⌨️ (0:39:49) Installation and Introduction to requests package ⌨️ (0:41:25) Installation and Introduction to BeautifulSoup ⌨️ (0:43:25) Building the basic script to download the video ⌨️ (0:49:37) Generalising the Script to get Arguments ⌨️ (0:53:49) Table Extractor from PDF - Tutorial 3 ⌨️ (0:54:44) Basics of PDF Format ⌨️ (0:57:05) Installing required Python Modules ⌨️ (1:02:16) Extracting Table from PDF ⌨️ (1:06:51) Quick Introduction to Jupyter Notebook ⌨️ (1:08:29) PDF Extraction on Jupyter Notebook ⌨️ (1:15:29) Pandas and Write Table as CSV Excel ⌨️ (1:21:02) Automated Bulk Resume Parser - Tutorial 4 ⌨️ (1:22:15) Different Formats of Resumes and marking relevant Information ⌨️ (1:25:50) Project Architecture and Brief Overview of the required packages and installations ⌨️ (1:34:48) Basics of Regular Expression in Python ⌨️ (1:41:38) Basic Overview of Spacy Functions ⌨️ (1:49:55) Extracting Relevant Information from the Resumes ⌨️ (2:16:46) Completing the script to make it a one-click CLI ⌨️ (2:28:09) Image Type Converter - Tutorial 5 ⌨️ (2:29:09) Different type of Image Formats ⌨️ (2:31:33) What is an Image type convertor ⌨️ (2:33:04) Introduction to Image Manipulation in Python ⌨️ (2:34:51) Building an Image type converting Script ⌨️ (2:40:03) Converting the script into a CLI Tool ⌨️ (2:44:27) Building an Automated News Summarizer - Tutorial 6 ⌨️ (2:46:27) What is Text Summarization ⌨️ (2:47:46) Installing Gensim and other Python Modules ⌨️ (2:52:43) Extracting the required News Source ⌨️ (2:59:38) Building the News Summarizer ⌨️ (3:07:14) Scheduling the News Summarizer ⌨️ (3:10:25) Thank you 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 Wong Voon jinq 👾 hexploitation 👾 Katia Moran 👾 BlckPhantom 👾 Nick Raker 👾 Otis Morgan 👾 DeezMaster 👾 AppWrite -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news
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