Automate your job with Python

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Learning automation with Python and Playwright can save you hours of work! Use the codegen feature to make it easy too
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[@rumble1925]

I'm a programmer but I run my own business. I can't believe I never thought of automating admin tasks. I hate doing admin and I put it off to the last possible moment.

[@johndavidwoodcock4528]

I also run a business, just to help we with some ideas what kind of admin work do you have in mind?

[@3g0e]

What tasks are you referencing?

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@johndavidwoodcock4528 The guy isn't a programmer, if he was, he'd know to automate tasks.

[@54tomcat]

That was cool! In my first weeks right now studying and learning Python. Wanted to see some live coding, and that was so interesting 🤩. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@jordiwang]

my man, thanks a lot. This is actually what I was looking for and I am sure this is a MUST skill that everyone should have. So good. Love you

[@JosejuanBlanco10]

This is exactly, and i mean EXACTLY what i’ve been looking for!!! I can’t thank you enough.

[@waellerbe]

Today you have a **new** Subscriber to your channel. I am totally impressed with the value of Playwright powered by Python. Thank you for sharing this tutorial with us. Automating our jobs will boost our efficiency to a high degree. Ready to keep on learning along the way.

[@davidl3383]

This record fonction is incredible ! thank you John !

[@jw200]

Thanks so much for showing Playwright. Its excellent. Makes stuff so much easier.

[@minevr5839]

Awesome as always. Thank you John.

[@vrk4y]

Thanks for such useful content, John. I used the library a few times before, but I hadn't known about the codegen. It'll definitely make my new project development easier

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad it was helpful!

[@training7574]

Very inspiring, thanks! Amazing that it should be so simple.

[@bmccollum]

Can't tell you how very much I enjoy your Python-related videos. I always watch them and walk away having learned something new or at least having learned how to do something I already know in a better way. 🙂

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks great! thank you you are very kind

[@graczew]

Good stuff as always. Thanx for sharing your knowledge and time.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks mate hope all is good with you!

[@aetheon9906]

Class. Explained well, concise, with example. Love it!

[@carlos-ferreira]

Thank you for tutorials like this. I recently used another one of your videos to fix the code a previous employee had created.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Great to hear!

[@Metalmatt900]

This is what I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much.

[@sepehrsarjami]

Absolutely enjoyed it. Nicely done.

[@PeterThornton]

This is fantastic, i need to do repeated tests on a newly developed webpage, this is perfect. I have subscribed and check out your other videos. Thank you

[@LucasMartins-op7oq]

Wow, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[@danlee1027]

Very helpful. I didnt know about code gen recording.

[@irfanshaikh262]

See. When i sit dow to count my blessings, i count "finding this channel and John" in particular probably a million times. Thanks john for being there for me.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

that is very kind, thank you for watching

[@swhitt4367]

Subscribed, if this was a series of examples and queries and question answering I would say you would have a keen audience! Subscribed

[@quangminhnguyen5681]

very cool very useful. thanks man

[@BERNOUSSAMA]

Thanks man. Never knew playwright had a codegen until now.

[@sagedoescode]

simple and straighforward, good stuff mate

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks

[@amogu_07]

this is one of the coolest thing ive watched tnkuu

[@dundy96]

This is going to make inputing student grades SO much easier.

[@spookimiiki5891]

simple yet effective, the python way! nice video!

[@AMindInOverdrive]

This is great! Thanks

[@pkavenger9990]

wow this is so much better than selinium, I mean you don't even have to code just perform things on browser and it will convert it into code and you can then use it to automate stuff. Amazing

[@michaelmuolokwu5039]

Thank you for this!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks for watching!

[@isekaijoucho4812]

a casual dig into learning python led me here? to this crazy advanced automation? should've done python long ago

[@Cu-da]

First of all thanks for the useful video. I've already learned python basics and now trying to get into automation and web scraping world and while i'm searching on youtube i found your useful channel but i found many playlists and i hope if you can tell me which playlist i should start with as a begginer in this world.

[@jeS77791]

Thank you, as always John!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks for watching!

[@Emre-yx6vw]

I couldn't stop laughing from happiness. Thank you man, thank you!

[@valuetraveler2026]

next level scraping here- will check it out

[@AlwaysBored1]

I'm going to try using this method to clock in and out of work each day!

[@TheEamonKeane]

Very cool John

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks I appreciate it

[@loicleray]

Interesting, as always. Thanks 😊

[@isagive]

Its awesome! lets conenct this to a database and create some schemas... +10 for making such a tutorial.

[@EnzoAuditore]

Thanks mate

[@bcavalcante]

Tragam um Oscar para esse cara!

[@okoeroo]

Great find

[@justsh0t]

lol this codegen looks amazing :O

[@victoraguirre7486]

I liked the video, unliked it and re-liked it again so I could like it more. Thanks man!!

[@devkhare5691]

That recording part looks like the universal recorder from Automation Anywhere 360.

[@dhanashekaranm4725]

useful video thanks

[@harrazmasri2805]

kudos to you sir

[@nssdesigns]

Great stuff... is there a way to read .xlms or csv data and loop through each row to automate web form entry data?

[@rico5424]

That’s awesome! So you would just have to change the numbers and run the script and let it do it for you. That’s cool

[@zettatech_dev]

thanks!

[@daesagelmar]

Hello, I think playwright has some pre-installation dependecies. I could not execute codegen generated code in VSCode due to library dependency problems. When i dig into stackover flow lot of questions raised to handle this library properly. Could you tell us how do you handle this issues? i mean "playwright.sync_api" could not resolved.

[@walterclements7968]

wow. crazy how easy it is

[@urielmedina8449]

Hi! Can you use this for exe’s? For example i have an app at work that i have to use to process charges. Its slow and has a few points where i have to wait to load, but for the most part its pretty repeatable.

[@ahmed007Jaber]

hi John, this sounds intersting. Do you code in R? found helpful resources for R? I have been coding in R for couple of years and planning to stick with it unless I have to change

[@PankajThakur-jq1td]

Hey John, How can we scrape a page which requires zipcode to open the actual data to scrape and various navigations to go the data.

[@mehuljy]

Hi John, is it possible to add time stamps for each step that is being captured

[@aminehadjmeliani72]

Thanks John for the great content, my I suggest you to make video about scraping thousands of websites asynchronously using scrapy

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

good idea, big task - i can certainly look at something that would help

[@sweetlulu4306]

Thank you, I really enjoy how you explain and walk through the steps. I am curious about the password part tho. Is there a better security method for the username password part? I would hate to have this script to be sitting there on my desktop at work. Just wondering what’s the best security practice for that 😊

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hey thanks- you could add user input at the start of the script, asking for the user to input the password required then stopping you having it saved

[@nunyo7259]

Might need this to book my T times

[@Septumsempra8818]

Playwright never ceases to surprise

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yeah you can do a lot just by controlling a browser

[@ngaiyuchan7886]

selenium seems cant use back the cookies for specific website, how about this library, thanks

[@robertwallace5498]

I wish my job had more of these tasks so I could automate them

[@alexdin1565]

Thanks Jhon please can you make a video on how we can use selenium or playwright on cpanel to make it run 24/24?

[@Puundaa]

Hi, can I use this for automatic testing of a webpages as well? If so, how can I store the passed and failed parts?

[@malwaredev33]

Good content as always, Thanks for that fantastic knowledge base videos, bro. I learn many things from your videos about scraping with python, Now I'm learning API web scraping. Make or suggest some good videos about web scraping through API. using python or making a video with complete detail. Thank You, John

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

thanks for watching, and great video suggestions thank you!

[@malwaredev33]

@@JohnWatsonRooney Don't worry I'm also a python lover so I know how much hard it take to make this type of content.

[@ouchvinny4520]

Question, how does your terminal look so clean?

[@mateip2002]

Can you pull information from emails for the code to paste it into the API?

[@os3990]

Is there a way to not hardcode the values but refer them to another source eg an excel?

[@this_is_elvis]

amazing

[@WavyTrends1]

how can I have my program stop and repeat the script again when a specific value goes up on my screen? ex. the number value is at 20. how can I make the script stop when value increases?

[@ciaranflynn6291]

If I have to perform a task that requires two chrome tabs open at the same time and a "click event" of a chrome extension... would it work?

[@bashartabbakh6299]

very nice

[@davidghisk3470]

Great

[@luffytaro689]

Holy shit new programmers have it so fucking easy. I remember when we had to use selenium and find each and every HTML path for each click.

[@urmotiva]

What is this theme called in VS?

[@shaakirjohaar754]

After installing playwright using the pip3 command , when trying to install chromium, it says playwright is not found Please do let me know if there are other requirements one needs before running these commands on mac m1

[@TurokAgi]

I accidentally entered the smart side of KZbin. My brain hurts 😖

[@Digitalachievement]

How are you supposed to deal with 2 factor authentication? For example if you need to log into a website with your google account but you have 2 factor authentication?

[@shawn_magnum9208]

How do i update the code to log in to my utility portal and download the monthly bill? How can i dynamically tell it to download the latest bill since every new bill will have a different name?

[@ImSilverstar]

How do you export the code so that it can be a clickable link on your desktop?

[@Nostrada-mus]

Playwright runs on private nav. Managed to make it work on guest but can't get it to run on any of my chrome's profile. Any idea how to fix this?

[@AllVIDEO4You]

Can I uninstall any application on my system using Playwright

[@ouassildahimene4635]

Thanks a lot john, can you make a video about scraping linkedin jobs with playwright ?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks for watching - you can apply the same principles here but linked in has more bot protection to get around. I’m moving away from specific site scraping videos but the methods will be adaptable to the sites you want to scrape

[@leoblack8497]

Great video John! One question though, beside playrighte ability to record your inputs , does it have any other advantages over selenium?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

I find its API more intuitive, and I think it has better docs. But functionality wise no - if you are already comfortable with Selenium I don't see a clear reason to switch. I started with selenium and only moved over cos Playwright was new and shiny and I liked using it

[@josephreagan9545]

You should use playwright to automate clicking the "I am a human" button!

[@user-xy9sq3lg7m]

is there code that can automate an excel sheet that needs checking and updating based off latest available data from a number of other spreadsheets? e.g. there is an item code which can be used to lookup different types of information from other sheets, the item code will be present in each other sheet so all that it needs to do is lookup that item code and then input the latest data for that code into my desired spreadsheet. There is also a cell that needs to return a list of "countries" that item code is available in, im unsure where to start or how to go about this

[@ktsai24]

You'll want to look into Excel macros. Otherwise if you're on Windows, Microsoft Power Automate is a low-code option.

[@PoseidonLP]

Holy shit, this really does replace selenium

[@johnlenoob6951]

Hi SIr, what is your coding environment ? YOu recommend use of conda or miniconda ? Working on windaube and don t want to destroy my poor system ;) Thanks for your work and knowkledge wharing

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

I just use Python and venv - no need for anaconda unless you are a data scientist in my opinion

[@johnlenoob6951]

Thanks sir @@JohnWatsonRooney

[@senecanoles]

My python doesn't look like that, I have to run it in Terminal. How do I get to this window in the begining of the video?

[@maziarzarea2540]

never thought of using this to automate tasks in wordpress.... how many million clicks has it been....

[@matthewj6026]

I love how the thumbnail of this video has some text reading "work smarter" with an arrow pointing to a screen of code on it. It's just brilliant.

[@matthewj6026]

Oh I forgot the "automate" bit- genius! Then the video starts with a man talking into a big microphone stuck right in his face, a must have for the KZbin podcaster or today. Also, the look of contemplation on his face as he's talking through his techniques

[@tr0wb3d3r5]

​@@matthewj6026HAHAHAHAAH hi gpt4

[@moler512]

huh?

[@mortazabaqeri1838]

Hahaha what is bro saying?

[@jasperbaumgarten3612]

Are you able to make it change the date to one day later every time you run it? Also are you able to make it repeat so it completes this entire task say 5 times?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yes both of those are possible and relatively simple to implement

[@makie1467]

Hey there, thank you so much for your great videos. How can i connect google sheets with playwright? Everytime I try to access google it says it is unsafe and I cant login.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

If you are trying to get data from google sheet with python there is a google api you can use and a Python package to help - it’s a much better way and it allows you to read and write data to a sheet programmatically. It’s called gsheets I believe

[@zachhalliwell553]

Do you have to run it from the script window? Or could I save the script and run it while I'm in a browser at the page I want to run the script on?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

You can do it that way - you can connect to an open chrome browser using the CDP protocol. It’s relatively straight forward to figure out

[@11bftw]

Bros got the gamer dent, ima believe what he says

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hahaha

[@11bftw]

@@JohnWatsonRooney all love ❤️

[@monicadesai7928]

Can you please make video for scraping job roles from individual company career web pages, so we only have to once add those web pages url, rest will be done by script and then automate the modification of job description into resume by removing some words. Please make videos on it.

[@arsalan0561]

is this possible with selenium ? as i use scrapy-playwright which doesn't work on windows..

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yes very possible with selenium, I started with selenium but moved on to Playwright as i preferred the API

[@LeonardoCarreraBaude]

Thanks, great video... if you want to get some content and save it in a txt file or something like that... ¿it possible?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

yes absolutely - you can pull text from the elements use playwright

[@raoshanaggarwal1223]

Please make a video for google maps

[@XENOCYTES]

Sir help me how to login a website through python requests website is build on (html and css) then how to login please help me 🥺