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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from Python Automation Cookbook 75 Python automation recipes for web scraping; data wrangling; and Excel, report, and email processing

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207080

Length 526 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Excel

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Jaime Buelta

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Let's Begin Our Automation Journey

2. Automating Tasks Made Easy FREE CHAPTER

3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application

4. Searching and Reading Local Files

5. Generating Fantastic Reports

6. Fun with Spreadsheets

7. Cleaning and Processing Data

8. Developing Stunning Graphs

9. Dealing with Communication Channels

10. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign?

11. Machine Learning for Automation

12. Automatic Testing Routines

13. Debugging Techniques

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Scanning documents for a keyword

In this recipe, we will apply all the lessons from the previous recipes and search all the files in the directory for a particular keyword. This is a recap of the rest of the recipes in this chapter and includes a script that searches different kinds of files.

Getting ready

Be sure to include the following modules in the requirements.txt file and install them into your virtual environment:

beautifulsoup4==4.8.2
Pillow==7.0.0
PyPDF2==1.26.0
python-docx==0.8.10

Check that the directory to search has the following files (all are available in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Automation-Cookbook-Second-Edition/tree/master/Chapter04/documents/. Note that file5.pdf and file6.pdf are copies of document-1.pdf, for simplicity. file1.txt to file4.txt are empty files:

├── dir
│   ├── file1.txt
│   ├── file2.txt
│   ├── file6.pdf...

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Authors (1)

Jaime Buelta

Jaime Buelta

Jaime Buelta is a Software Architect who has been a professional programmer since 2002 and a Python enthusiast since 2010. He has developed software for a variety of fields, focusing, in the last 10 years, on developing web services in Python in the gaming, finance and education industries. He is a strong proponent of automating everything to make computers do most of the heavy lifting, so humans can focus on the important stuff. He published his first book, "Python Automation Cookbook", in 2018 (recently with an extended second edition), followed a year later by "Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python" describing how to migrate to a microservice architecture. He is currently living in Dublin, Ireland, and is a regular speaker at PyCon Ireland.

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