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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207080
Length 526 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

Adding subscribers to an email newsletter

A common marketing tool is email newsletters. They are convenient ways of sending information to multiple targets. A good newsletter system is difficult to implement, and the recommended way is to use ones available on the market. A well-known one is MailChimp (https://mailchimp.com/).

MailChimp has a lot of possibilities, but the interesting one in regard to this book is its API, which can be scripted to automate tools. This RESTful API can be accessed through Python. In this recipe, we will see how to add more subscribers to an existing list.

Getting ready

As we will use MailChimp, we need to have an account with them. You can create a free account at https://login.mailchimp.com/signup/.

After creating the account, be sure to at least have a list that we can add subscribers to. As part of the registration process, it may have been created for you. It will appear under Audience -> Manage Audience -> View Audience:

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