Ever wondered how you scrape hidden (or JS generated) HTML? Selenium is your friend. Ever wondered how to run it without a browser popping up? Use headless mode. How would you run it remotely? Use Heroku. And how about autoposting to Slack and Twitter? With the right libraries and API setup little code is needed. In this 10 step guide I will show you how to build a Packt Free Learning Notifier which will accomplish all these tasks. Ready to learn some nice automation skills in Python?
Articles on books
PyBites Twitter Digest – Issue 37, 2018
By PyBites Team on 2 December 2018
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Code Challenge 55 – #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator – Review
By PyBites Team on 23 October 2018
In this article we review last week’s #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator code challenge.
Code Challenge 55 – #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator
By PyBites Team on 16 October 2018
Hi Pythonistas, Welcome to Pybites Code Challenge 55! In this challenge we’re asking that you create your own #100DaysOfCode Curriculum Generator.
Career Development for Programmers
By Bob Belderbos on 23 September 2018
What makes you excel in your career? Become an expert in x, y, z. Sure, you need to learn technical skills, quite a lot of them. However there is a lot more to it. If you want to succeed in your job, business and life, you want to build a portfolio, share your learning, become a reader and a good writer, and last but not least stick to daily exercising. I published this article on my blog 2 years ago and find a lot is still relevant today and will serve our community. I also added an updated towards the end.
Pushing the Packt “free book of the day” to the world with Scrapy and Alexa
By Rhys Powell on 31 May 2018
I have a love of the goodies that you get as part of the developer rewards from submitting Alexa skills to Amazon. Another thing that I also love is the fact that Packt gives away a free book. What I always forget to do is look at what today’s book is and what I didn’t have was a lot of time to meet this month’s deadline for app submission. Why not combine them both?
Code Challenge 43 – Build a Chatbot Using Python
By PyBites Team on 9 November 2017
Hi Pythonistas, it’s incredible to think how quickly bots have grown in popularity. They’re everywhere these days and will play an important role how we work and communicate in the near future! It’s about time we go our bot on as well!
Twitter Digest 2017 Week 41
By PyBites Team on 15 October 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Python Testing With Pytest
By Bob Belderbos on 25 September 2017
Review of Brian Okken’s new pytest book.
How to Learn Python
By PyBites Team on 16 September 2017
Python is a mature language, easy to learn and here to stay. But where to start? We see a lot of new Pythonistas posting questions like: How to learn Python?, Where do I start?, What approach to take?. We were there once too. Now with 9 months of PyBites and 200 articles under our belt, we share how we learned Python.