Automation Project: Build a Screen-Reading Bot (PyAutoGUI + OCR)
What if you want to automate an old app that has no API and no way to copy text? You can teach Python to see…
Automation Project: Extract Text from Scanned PDFs (OCR)
This is a major challenge for many businesses. You have a PDF, but it’s just a picture of text (a scanned document). When faced with…
Automation Project: Extract Table Data from Images to Excel (OCR)
This project is a perfect example of “Automating the Boring Stuff.” In this tutorial, we’ll walk through using Python OCR to Excel as we combine…
Python and APIs: Understanding requests (GET, POST, Headers)
Many of our projects use requests.get(url) to fetch data. If you want a comprehensive Python requests guide, this article will help demystify the module. But…
Fun Automation Project: Build a Bot that Draws in MS Paint
Let’s use our PyAutoGUI automation skills to do something visual: make a bot that draws for us. In this article, we’ll walk through a fun…
Automate a Game: Build a Cookie Clicker Bot with Selenium
Let’s use our Selenium automation skills for something fun: building a bot to play the classic “Cookie Clicker” game. Step 1: Setup and Target Elements…
Automate Your Feed: Build a Simple Reddit Bot with PRAW
PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) is a fantastic library that makes it easy to interact with Reddit. You can use it to build bots that…
Python Automation: How to Read Text from Images (OCR)
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of “reading” the text out of an image file. Python OCR is perfect solution for automating data entry…
Automating Google Sheets with Python (gspread)
We’ve automated Excel, but what about cloud data? If you’re looking to work efficiently with Google Sheets Python integration, gspread is a fantastic library for…
Python Automation Project: Build a ‘Focus Mode’ Website Blocker
This script redirects distracting websites to your computer’s “localhost” (a blank page), helping you focus. The Python Website Blocker is a simple tool designed to…
