Automate with Python - Full Course for Beginners

Learn how to automate your life with Python! You will learn how to automate boring and repetitive tasks such as creating an Excel report, sending text messages, extracting tables from websites, interacting with websites, and more. You will learn how to use a few different Python libraries to help with automation such as Path, Selenium, XPath, and more.
💻 Source Code & Datasets: github.com/ifrankandrade/auto...
✏️ Course from Frank Andrade. Check out his KZbin Channel: / frankandrade5
🔗 Automation Cheat Sheet: artificialcorner.com/p/redeem...
🔗 Frank's 11-Hour Automation Course in Python: www.udemy.com/course/automate...
🔗 Frank's Discord Server: / discord
⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro
⌨️ (0:00:31) Project #1 Table Extraction - Extract Tables from Websites
⌨️ (0:02:53) Table Extraction - Extract CSV Files from Websites
⌨️ (0:09:38) Table Extraction - Extract Tables from PDFs
⌨️ (0:13:06) Project #2 - Web Automation & Web Scraping - HTML Basics - Tags and Elements
⌨️ (0:20:57) Web Automation & Web Scraping - HTML Basics - Tree Structure
⌨️ (0:24:22) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Syntax, Functions and Operators
⌨️ (0:28:06) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Test Your XPath
⌨️ (0:33:38) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Special Characters and Syntax
⌨️ (0:38:17) Automate The News - Installing Selenium and ChromeDriver
⌨️ (0:40:34) Automate The News - Creating The Driver
⌨️ (0:44:46) Automate The News - Finding Elements
⌨️ (1:04:34) Automate The News - Exporting Data to a CSV File
⌨️ (1:12:34) Automate The News - Headless mode
⌨️ (1:18:18) Automate The News - Preparing Script to Be Run Everyday
⌨️ (1:30:17) Automate The News - Convert py to exe
⌨️ (1:37:18) Automate The News - Schedule Python Script with crontab (macOS)
⌨️ (1:42:16) Project #3 - Automate Excel Report - Create a Pivot Table with Python
⌨️ (1:49:42) Automate Excel Report - Add a Bar Chart
⌨️ (2:05:02) Automate Excel Report - Write Excel Formulas with Python
⌨️ (2:19:18) Automate Excel Report - Format Cells
⌨️ (2:23:04) Automate Excel Report - Convert Pivot Table to Excel Report
⌨️ (2:25:32) Automate Excel Report - Generate Excel Reports with One Click (py to exe)
⌨️ (2:33:22) Project #4 - Automate WhatsApp
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[@juandavidtorovelez5979]

Please keep this excellent job up! As someone who loves python and currently learning it, this material is pure diamond!!

[@nazimgolaurb618]

I want to thank freeCodeCamp and Frank for demonstrating this. I am taking a course and just learning syntax and to be honest it was difficult to hold my attention. But with the first few minutes of watching this video I feel like your way is so much more effective. I'm learning how to do something that is modern and that I can follow right away. Please keep these videos coming!

[@shikug6939]

Yo this helped so much and I always appreciate the content and when i found the channel and got the energy from you from the previous video, you've been nothing but real and can vouch for the amazing content and how down to earth you are with everything! All the most love, respect, and appreciation

[@narbiraymond8375]

This is the best I have seen on python automation. Kudos for the good job

[@williamthatsmyname]

This is way batter than I expected. Kudos.

[@nikhilanandpandit8644]

⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro ⌨️ (0:00:31) Project #1 Table Extraction - Extract Tables from Websites ⌨️ (0:02:53) Table Extraction - Extract CSV Files from Websites ⌨️ (0:09:38) Table Extraction - Extract Tables from PDFs ⌨️ (0:13:06) Project #2 - Web Automation & Web Scraping - HTML Basics - Tags and Elements ⌨️ (0:20:57) Web Automation & Web Scraping - HTML Basics - Tree Structure ⌨️ (0:24:22) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Syntax, Functions and Operators ⌨️ (0:28:06) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Test Your XPath ⌨️ (0:33:38) Web Automation & Web Scraping - XPath - Special Characters and Syntax ⌨️ (0:38:17) Automate The News - Installing Selenium and ChromeDriver ⌨️ (0:40:34) Automate The News - Creating The Driver ⌨️ (0:44:46) Automate The News - Finding Elements ⌨️ (1:04:34) Automate The News - Exporting Data to a CSV File ⌨️ (1:12:34) Automate The News - Headless mode ⌨️ (1:18:18) Automate The News - Preparing Script to Be Run Everyday ⌨️ (1:30:17) Automate The News - Convert py to exe ⌨️ (1:37:18) Automate The News - Schedule Python Script with crontab (masOS) ⌨️ (1:42:16) Project #3 - Automate Excel Report - Create a Pivot Table with Python ⌨️ (1:49:42) Automate Excel Report - Add a Barchart ⌨️ (2:05:02) Automate Excel Report - Write Excel Formulas with Python ⌨️ (2:19:18) Automate Excel Report - Format Cells ⌨️ (2:23:04) Automate Excel Report - Convert Pivot Table to Excel Report ⌨️ (2:25:32) Automate Excel Report - Generate Excel Reports with One Click (py to exe) ⌨️ (2:33:22) Project #4 - Automate WhatsApp

[@sanathkumarshenoy9955]

Thanks mate

[@sleepstorm1192]

Thanks

[@hassaan_bm]

Thank you..

[@josephlee6865]

Hey, is this something that you typed out manually or is it something you were able to use code to get?

[@bringbackdislikes3195]

@@josephlee6865 He copy pasted it from the description...

[@ccy920]

OMG!!!! This is the course that I have always hoping for.😆 Thank you for the whole tutorial 🫡

[@limwei2634]

Thank you!!! Previously when I was learning Python, all the past references were for older version Selenium 3. I was facing difficulty with launching selenium. Now we have a proper guide thank you!

[@carloseduardocorreacoimbra4040]

Dear Frank Andrade, thanks a lot for sharing the Automation Cheat Sheet. Congrats for this class that is amazing!

[@vamshikittu8635]

hi i'm a student can you share me the cheetsheet please.

[@d.weltenbummler1535]

Well done, I could binge it. Easy to use framework, perfect explained. I feel like I can replicate it without knowing anything about python code before. Automate loops like Dr. Frankenstein and call it Cleon 1.0

[@tofuboy9269]

Awesome, this channel is one of the best learning sources on the internet.

[@endermaster08]

Perfect timing, Im gonna listen to this like a podcast

[@gautammenariya8292]

yet another great tutorial, love this

[@CaptainJuiccy]

This is actually insane, thank you!!!

[@arturocdb]

Great explanation, thank so much!

[@codingtech2502]

I never skip add on this channel because it help the channel that provides priceless video

[@SmallMindEd69]

This code instructor is amazing!!!

[@sanjananayak6326]

This is what I needed. Thank u❤️

[@ayushroy3514]

Wow. I am currently learning automation, great timing for the vid

[@lunarbonito]

Woot! Thank goodness, I needed this back on my computer! Thank you!! :D

[@ghassanjenainaty4212]

Now am learning the basics of Python like variables & inputs & loops, classes, dictionaries, etc. I guess i have to build good background before moving to Automation

[@dansierrasam79]

Thank you, sir. Excellent work!

[@BillyT83]

Finally a Python Automation Course from freeCodeCamp!!! 👍

[@NovaTech2010]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@alvaroszi]

Awesome video! Will definitely get to do some of these :D

[@vijayalakshmiraj7528]

TNice tutorials was an amazing tutorial. You are a great teacher

[@muhammednihal2410]

Awesome!!! Thank you ❤

[@hasanmougharbel8030]

God bless your great efforts in this channel. I have a simple question to ask as a newbie sql learner. Could i manage to channel or extract all sql data generated from an accounting program (based on sql) to our new sql server. The reason that we are bounded with the graphical interface of this accounting software as we cant come up with any solutions regarding analytics and automation, unless we can tailor and rearrange this sql database based to our specific needs. Thanks for helping me.

[@labinotsulejmani1137]

Hi everyone! First of all, thank you guys for this amazing content that you keep delivering! You are the world's No 1 free school for learning Tech! Now to my question: i run the first 2 programs with success but it doesn't give me the output as in the video. Doesn't matter if i rung it from VS Code, git bash or cmd. The program runs successful but the output is not as expected with the lists. Can you someone help?

[@aashishmalhotra]

Wow very useful i will complete it after finishing with 8 sem exams

[@iDarkXY]

this helped tremendously. THANK U

[@sonamohialdin3376]

Amazing tutorial thank you

[@rfsnjn]

what a perfect time, i just started python

[@dnyaneshwar53]

Same here ✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@helloworldfromvn]

same here, really need this 😂

[@AkramBazina]

Welcome to the club

[@cheybrown2076]

Nice video to just binge. Thanks for this

[@iggaming948]

After learning from 12hrs. Video now I think 2hrs. Video is shorter for me I can easily learn from them ♥️😀🖐️

[@sigfigronath]

Wow so easy ! great course

[@jitendratiwari6886]

Wow thank you for sharing this to us.

[@maxcohen13]

FYI: unless using JUPYTER, you'll need to print out the tables. Typing _len(simpsons)_ on it's own won't produce any results. Instead, type _print(simpsons)._

[@manikandanshanmugam7480]

Nothing but ❤ for this course

[@sab311]

I must jump on this. So inspiring. Thank you

[@theobaldigberaese4572]

Awesome work mentor... I hope to meet you someday

[@mehdismaeili3743]

Excellent, thanks.

[@matthewsteele1671]

Thank you for the amazing content! It would be very helpful if you mentioned which code editors or ide's you use when you switch from jupyter though. I tried to download the cheat sheet but it sent me in circles. Thanks again!

[@braxindor4153]

He said it multiple times though? It's called pycharm. It's the jetbrains option. You can use visual studio code or similar and that'll be great as well though.

[@mohammadashrafbinizham7985]

although i am new, it's understandable explanation 👍👍

[@fmictsang8874]

This is amazing.

[@imnedmonton]

I'm hooked. A thousand years away from assembler, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal. Champagne vs. cheap beer.

[@Martin-yo8wh]

When you are describing something that is shown in the screen, it would be easier for the viewers to follow if you use some kind of pointer (e.g. a highlighted mouse pointer) instead of just plainly saying the description -- noticed this in explanation of xpath syntax; too many descriptions that didn't stick to mind.

[@Mr0rris0]

What about LASERS!!!@!@@@@ And duck hunt. This can be solved with over engineering SUBSCRIPTION LASERS!!!!!!!

[@dhruvpandey3642]

Agreed, Finally someone telling it like it is instead of fanboying

[@TheOnlyEpsilonAlpha]

I‘m at 1:17 and first i have to say something: THANK YOU FOR USING A PROPER MIC!❤ Cheeses crisis, the last 5 Videos I watched before, there have been people, without proper English speaking or the worse mic quality or a combination of both. Or a lady which hammered her keyboard right beside the microphone. How should someone proper learn from that content? 1:52 Okay the CTRL Key seems to be right beside your mic right? Each time to copy or paste something it‘s clear you pressed a key very loud. 3:00 what happened? You sound so much quieter 8:53 But if i turn it up it‘s okay. Anyway it‘s a way better video than the other ones i watched before! 19:29 i love that someone really specifies all the tags you find in that chaos of a modern website, very well explained 👍 Gone through the whole video and it was VERY interesting 😮 thanks for that tutorial

[@parthasarathyvenkatachari2617]

super video pls continue other topics of any other language

[@sanjith_sambath]

For those of you getting a certificate error : import ssl ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context ^ Worked for me :D

[@jacquacooper]

Just what I needed

[@mahendranath2504]

Thank you so much 😊👌👍👋👍

[@ersalomositorusdori308]

thanks very much i hope this tutorial would be helped ,thanks a lot

[@TiagrajI]

Great one. I love it. It helps in daily life

[@ermoulis]

very good , thank you!!

[@dnyaneshwar53]

Your are awesome... Thank you so much for this course 😍✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@othnieldavidson7579]

nice tutorials sir i wanted to ask if there is a library to fetch images online...

[@kakafrost]

Hey thanks! In the scraping part, what do you do with this error: "ERROR: Couldn't read tbsCertificate as SEQUENCE" "ERROR: Failed parsing Certificate" ?

[@just_ab01]

Thanks!

[@reneramirez7777]

THKS!!!!! I WILL CHECK THIS VIEO AFTER MY OFFICE HRS!!!

[@Lorendrawn]

About to end all my teammates' careers with the learnings from this video ayyyy

[@themuhammad1]

Thank you so much 😭😭❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍

[@hadigunawan7797]

big thanks ❤❤

[@hongyuanqiu4115]

Thank you.

[@jheandaza7334]

Wow!! Beatiful content!

[@gameplay6751]

Thanks a lot ❤️, if you record video how to automat wordpress after we scrap the data

[@mecreature]

Awesome 😍😍😍

[@user-bf5os3fo9m]

Excellent content, thanks. How can i implement the new functionality in Python 3.10 os.startfile(path[, operation][, arguments][, cwd][, show_cmd])? I want to open a file in a minimized window.

[@SpwnTheBitcoinOverlord]

A tutorial regarding Filemaker?? It would be pretty useful!

[@ultraenergy313]

Thank You

[@yatsilmatt4256]

great course! but i am using win 11 and chromedriver have only a 32 version, what should i do?

[@jagadeeshkumar5814]

Can u please teach ,how to scan a barcode and insert data into a database along with timestamp of login and logout.

[@hammadmohammadanees1391]

For the projects . Can they be converted as an API or a tool . if they can , How to do it?

[@hayat_soft_skills]

Cool !!!! Thanks!

[@juancarlosaguilarlopez9252]

Undoubtedly, Python is the king Programming Language for data processing ......

[@fatim6081]

Miracle👌

[@leonelsalah8950]

Hi, tks for your lectures After finishing lesson Automate the news- exporting data at 1:30, file headline.csv only shows many the same contents in all rows, could u tell me how to fix it. Tks

[@immipixediter210]

thanks

[@marianrusu7580]

Hi, I don't know if I have chance to get an aswer but I still ask. I just finished my web scrapping automation in python using selenium. The automation should search for some items and extract the data like price, date etc. The scrapped data should be exported in an excel file and also is a exception when the data for an item is not found the item needs to be exported with "No data" . I run some test but from 5 runs only 3 are correct, sometimes the items are skipped even though the data is availbale for them. I tried to slow the code, to increase the load page time, to use different methods to locate the element from which I need the data to be extracted, but nothing seems to work very good. Any advice? Thanks!

[@unknownlordd]

i was reading this as a blog just yesterday

[@immanuelsuleiman7550]

This channel is awesome

[@aadarsh8306]

agreed

[@sanketsaboo6567]

Is there any way to put the formula for the entire column from row7 to row n without for loop in openpxl or pandas ?

[@marcelborg1821]

This is really good. However, I get an error message when trying the Automate the News code that the executable_path has deprecated

[@bboyrynan2800]

Kindly make Javascript Automation course excel and web scraping Thanks.

[@healthadvice3091]

9:29 correct me if im wrong but you can do this easily in excel right?

[@ss0ulzz]

at 11:14, who do you get pycharm to show the side mini window expanded , to show parameters etc... ? thanks

[@hoodietramp]

thank you :D

[@SinarJourney]

Hi, thanks for this amazing tutorial. I have 1 question about the path in executable files 1:36:45 , when i try to run directly in IDE (VsCode) it worked, but somehow when i try to run it on exe file it failed to recognized the chromedriver path ('chromedriver' executable needs to be in path). I appreciate any feedback, thank you

[@robertgarcia2689]

Thanks

[@amirrme9372]

I respect you💙💙💙

[@kalelsoffspring]

Some of this information was neat and helpful, but I definitely felt like it wasn't well paced. There was a lot of "I've shown this before so I'll go over it really quick" that we literally didn't get to see

[@immanuelsuleiman7550]

Beautiful champ

[@tyfyh622]

that's the stuff!

[@abnbablwaftkher]

thank you bro for this informations. I have a question and I hope you can answer it : I get an error message telling me that I am using a proxy when I open one of my short links via rdp developed by Azure, is there a way to resolve this error message and create rdp with a real IP address. Thanks in advance

[@reindeermosseater]

but how about scaping web pages requiring auth?

[@romanshrestha1292]

I generally use brave and firefox instead of Chrome. Is it possible to do 'automate the news' project without chrome?

[@pegah7482]

you guys can read my mind i swear

[@donsurlylyte]

these kind of real world applications of python are real gold, i look forward to them

[@mikhailkalashnik0v]

Do you guys have a video on automating w bash or golang by chance?

[@aigelalimorom2349]

Really work