Automating Simple Tasks with Python: Using Python and Window Task Scheduler to get the word of the day

❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞‒Chinese Proverb So I want to learn one english word per day, but I am too lazy and forgetful to visit the website ? Hmm…. bulb floats on head Let us create a python script, that runs daily by the Windows Task Scheduler 12:16:00 AM Coffee break… […]

“Python Learning: Automate Boring Stuff with Python | Chapter 11 : My Solution to Link Verification (with a twist)

Instead of downloading the pages, let’s just write the links out 4:40:41 PM In the last task we downloaded images directly to our machine into a folder in the current working directory. Since I am well acquainted with downloading files using requests, I decided to just write out the links into a text file instead […]

“Python Learning: Automate Boring Stuff with Python | Chapter 11 : My Solution to Image Downloader from Imgur

So you want to download images without a browser..  challenge accepted 3:43:41 PM   #Image Site Downloader #USAGE: python igmurdownloader.py <category> <limit> import sys, requests, os, logging, bs4, re logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format="%(asctime)s – %(levelname)s – %(message)s") logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL) if len(sys.argv) == 3: logging.info("Command line argument 3") #TODO: get category, and limit category = sys.argv[1] limit = sys.argv[2] imgur […]

“Python Learning: Automate Boring Stuff with Python | Chapter 11 : My Solution to Comic Downloader

Downloading a comic…. 9% 12:39:32 PM There is a solution provided in the book but this is my way of going around the task   #comic saver – saves each post of a comic page #USAGE python comic.py import logging, requests, bs4, os, sys logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=” %(asctime)s – %(levelname)s – %(message)s”) #TODO: get url if len( […]