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100 Days of Python, Projects 51-53 #100DaysofCode

Here we are now with a few more automated bot tasks.  It's been a fun series of lessons, though I enjoyed using Beautiful Soup more then Selenium.  Selenium runs into too many anti-bot measures on the web to be truly effective.  I mean, it's definitely a useful too, but in my experience, it's not reliable enough.  BS seems to be much more effective, though it can't really interact with pages. In the long run, I think I am more just irritated by "clever bull shit" on web pages that makes both pieces of software a pain to work with. Take…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 45-50 #100DaysofCode

Things are continuing to be interesting and useful here with the introduction of Beautiful Soup, a tool used to parse unstructured data into usable structured data.  Well, more or less that's what it does.  Useful for parsing through Scraped Web Page data that does not have it's own API available. As normal, everything is on GitHub. Day 45 - Must Watch Movies List and Hacker News Headline Scraper As an introduction to using the tool, Beautiful Soup, we had two simple projects.  The training project actually feels more useful than the official project of the day, though I also remixed…
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Github.io and Web Dev of the Past

So, technically this is part of the 100 Days of Python I have been writing about here, Days 41-44 were an "Intro to Web Development" piece, to give students a basic idea of how web pages are structured in order to give them the ability to better work Beautiful Soup in later projects.  More on Beautiful Soup on the actual "100 Days of Code Part 5" though. Now, I'm already, pretty good at Web Development. I won't say I am "professional level" (hellooooo Imposter Syndrome), but I'm pretty good and I've done actual web dev work for some small projects…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 32-40 #100DaysofCode

Things are ramping up a bit again here.  Now we get all sorts of fancy API calls for real time data.  This will definitely be useful for later personal projects, along with the email notifications.  I will probably be running dozens of scripts on a Pi or my web server by this time next year.  This is the sort of stuff I really dig, keeping notice of what's going on with things. As usual, my Github Repository for all this code is here. Day 32 - Sendmail (Birthday and Quote Email-er) So, I am sure on some level, I was…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 23-31 #100DaysofCode

In case anyone is keeping track (which they are not), you might notice that one, I've not been posting these posts in "real time".  I've been writing them later, after the fact.  I kind of hope to change that.  Also, I started on September 12th, and my last post was on September 28th, which is 16 days, though the last post went through Day 22.  I'm actually moving faster than "100 Days" on my "100 Days of Code". This is intentional, I want to do Advent of Code again this year, starting December 1st. So I want to hopefully finish…