Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

About This Book
Learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, manipulate files, and access websites’ APIs Get to know about the different types of bots, look at how to develop a simple chat bot and how bots can be used to automate business processes This book is written in Python 3.5 syntax to future-proof your automation and you’ll get an understanding of how to customize the scripts to meet your future automation needs

Who This Book Is For

Our audience is programmers who know Python but need not be experts. They will however know a lot of the basics of the syntax and some basic experience with the command line. Ultimately, they’re people who see themselves as busy and want to find cool hacks to automate all the mundane and time-consuming tasks they find themselves doing on a daily basis.

What You Will Learn
To automate business processes and make them efficient with Python recipes Explore the power of REST APIs and implement Webhooks. Work with Twitter REST APIs and post automated tweets with Python Understand the world of cloud telephony and implement business use cases with SMS and voice notification with Python bindings Manipulate images and learn how to use Python’s computer vision for face detection and automate business tasks. Have you thought of making your organization go paperless? Learn about bots and implement one of your own using Python. You will also learn to integrate AI to your bots Understand data analysis and generate interesting insights on your data using Python’s modules for data filtering and visualization

In Detail

Automate it! gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time-consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient.
With a classic problem-solution-based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with the Web, worksheets, presentations, and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR and finance, making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll—an integral process in HR—will be automated with Python recipes.
You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks, and e-mails to automate marketing and customer support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.