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?
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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 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper – Review
By PyBites Team on 12 June 2017
In this article we review last week’s Packt free ebook code challenge. We really scratched our own itch building both a notification service and an ebook download manager.
Code Challenge 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper
By PyBites Team on 5 June 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! This week we will do some web scraping of Packt’s daily free ebook, sending out daily notifications. This week we even have a unique opportunity to sponsor the Python Community, read on … and happy coding!