Series 18: Automating Tasks with Python

Computers excel at tedious repetition once you spell out the steps. This series collects everyday automation patterns: walking the filesystem, fetching web pages responsibly, scripting API calls and email delivery, tweaking spreadsheets on a schedule, and packaging those pieces into maintainable CLI-style scripts.

Articles

• 137. Introduction to automation with Python
• 138. Working with the filesystem: os and shutil
• 139. Web scraping with requests and BeautifulSoup
• 140. Working with APIs using requests
• 141. Automating email with smtplib and email
• 142. Excel spreadsheets with openpyxl
• 143. Scheduling tasks with schedule
• 144. Building a simple automation script