Using Python for Automation

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Free Online Course: Using Python for Automation provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Using Python for Automation is taught by Sam Pettus and Madecraft.

Overview
  • Learn how to automate repetitive tasks using Python.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Automate everything with Python
    • Course prerequisites
    1. Automate File, Folder, and Terminal Interactions
    • Using Python for file automation
    • How to read files
    • How to write files
    • Executing terminal commands
    • Organizing directories
    2. Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup
    • The value of web scraping
    • Creating a request and parsing
    • Exploring HTML structure
    • How to isolate data
    • Preparing for paginated scraping
    • Scraping paginated content
    3. Automate Web Browsing with Selenium
    • Automating web browsing
    • Basic browser interactions
    • Handling drag and drop
    • Selenium wait functions
    • Selenium explicit wait functions
    4. Automating with APIs
    • Understanding API calls
    • Creating API requests
    • Parsing through JSON
    • Using API keys
    • Linking API calls
    Conclusion
    • Next steps