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Overview

Python is an easy-to-learn programming language that allows organizations to script custom automation and reap the time-savings

Duration

1 hour

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Advanced

Credential

Certificate

Using Python for Automation
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
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Using Python for Automation
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • In this course, you can learn how to automate your own repetitive tasks using Python
  • This course provides a ?cookbook? for developers and non-developers alike, allowing you to automate almost anything: from filling out PDFs and launching programs, to sending emails and voicemails, working with calendars, and organizing files and folders
  • Discover how to use Python and open-source libraries and tools such as Beautiful Soup and Selenium to craft elegant solutions that do the grunt work for you

Using Python for Automation
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Curriculum

Introduction

Automate everything with Python

Course prerequisites

Automate File, Folder, and Terminal Interactions

Using Python for file automation

How to read files

How to write files

Executing terminal commands

Organizing directories

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

Automate Web Browsing with Selenium

Automating web browsing

Basic browser interactions

Handling drag and drop

Selenium wait functions

Selenium explicit wait functions

Automating with APIs

Understanding API calls

Creating API requests

Parsing through JSON

Using API keys

Linking API calls

Conclusion

Next steps

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Sam Pettus

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Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
Course Support: Career support was helpful
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