Automating Tasks with Python Part 2
If you use a computer a lot you've probably had to do some repetitive tasks. Python can be used to automate many boring tasks to give you more time for other things.
We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to automate things with Python.
You will gain skills by building 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
This course was created by 1littlecoder. He has made many great courses in the past an is an excellent teacher.
Here are the sections covered in this course:
Hacker News Headlines Emailer - Tutorial 1
Introduction to Web Scraping
Setting up the Environment
Project Script
Website Structure of Hacker News FrontPage
Sending Email from Python
Building the Headlines Email Module
TED Talk Downloader - Tutorial 2
Installation and Introduction to requests package
Installation and Introduction to BeautifulSoup
Building the basic script to download the video
Generalising the Script to get Arguments
Table Extractor from PDF - Tutorial 3
Basics of PDF Format
Installing required Python Modules
Extracting Table from PDF
Quick Introduction to Jupyter Notebook
PDF Extraction on Jupyter Notebook
Pandas and Write Table as CSV Excel
Automated Bulk Resume Parser - Tutorial 4
Different Formats of Resumes and marking relevant Information
Project Architecture and Brief Overview of the required packages and installations
Basics of Regular Expression in Python
Basic Overview of Spacy Functions
Extracting Relevant Information from the Resumes
Completing the script to make it a one-click CLI
Image Type Converter - Tutorial 5
Different type of Image Formats
What is an Image type convertor
Introduction to Image Manipulation in Python
Building an Image type converting Script
Converting the script into a CLI Tool
Building an Automated News Summarizer - Tutorial 6
What is Text Summarization
Installing Gensim and other Python Modules
Extracting the required News Source
Building the News Summarizer
Scheduling the News Summarizer