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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

Dealing with Communication Channels

Dealing with communication channels is where automating things can produce big gains. In this chapter, we'll see how to work with two of the most common communication channels—emails, including newsletters, and sending and receiving text messages by phone.

During the years, there has been a fair amount of abuse in both channels, like spam or unsolicited marketing messages, making it necessary for senders to use external tools to avoid messages being rejected by automated filters. We will present the proper caveats where applicable. The presented tools have a lot of features that will help you with your specific task. They also have excellent documentation, so do not be afraid to read it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Working with email templates
  • Sending an individual email
  • Reading an email
  • Adding subscribers to an email newsletter
  • Sending notifications via email
  • ...
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