Automate Everything with Python

In our previous Python tutorial, we have explained how to make ChatBot Project with Python and Flask. In this tutorial, we will explain how to Automate Everything with Python.

Automation is the key of efficiency and productivity After a decade of experiance. It lets us to automate important and repeated tasks to complete quickly.

Python is an incredibly powerful and flexible language. It can be used to automate things by building utilities of useful scripts to make life easier as a software developer.

So, let’s proceed with to explore these useful scripts that can speedup the way we work.

1. Make ChatBot with ChatGPT

You can make your own ChatBot using OpenAi to make your life easier and faster.

import openai

openai.api_key = "API_KEY"

promptText = input("\nYou: \n")

modelEngine = "text-davinci-003"

completion = openai.Completion.create(
    engine=modelEngine,
    prompt=promptText,
    max_tokens=1024,
    n=1,
    stop=None,
    temperature=0.5,
)

response = completion.choices[0].text
print("\nBot Say: ", response)

2. Email Responder

It’s always very time consuming to respond to each and every email. You can create an auto responder script for handling emails reply. The script will automatically send pre-defined responses to emails.

from smtplib import SMTP
from ssl import create_default_context as context
from email.message import EmailMessage

def autoResponder(sender, recipient, subject, message):
    msg = EmailMessage()
    msg.set_content(message)
    msg["Subject"] = subject
    msg["From"] = sender
    msg["To"] = recipient
    with SMTP('smtp.domain.example', 587) as server:
    server.starttls(context=context())
    server.login('email@domain.example', 'your-password')
    server.send_message(msg)

3. Make File Organizer

Python can also help you to organize files and directories in your computer by using Python’s OS and shutil modules. You can create a script to manage files on your computer Desktop to renaming files, creating folders, etc.

import os, shutil

dirList=[]
i=1
destDir='C:/Users/Desktop/Everything'
while os.path.exists(destDir):
    destDir+=str(i)
    i+=1
os.makedirs(destDir)
dirList = os.listdir('/Users/NAME/Desktop')
for dir in dirList:
    print (dir)
    if dir ==__file__:
        continue
    shutil.move(dir, destDir)

4. Make Web Scraper

If you frequently need websites data, then you can make a web scraper using BeautifulSoup module to get webiste data for further use.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
data = soup.find('div', {'class': 'content'}).text
print(data)

5. Backup Everything

You can create a Python script to backup everything after work completed.

import shutil 
from datetime import date 
import os 
import sys 
  
os.chdir(sys.path[0])   
  
def takeBackup(srcFileName,  
                dstFileName=None, 
                srcDir='',  
                dstDir=''): 
    try: 
        
        today = date.today()   
        date_format = today.strftime("%d_%b_%Y_")   
      
        srcDir = srcDir+srcFileName   
      
        if not srcFileName: 
            print("Please provide atleast the source file name") 
            exit() 
  
        try:             
           
            if srcFileName and dstFileName and srcDir and dstDir: 
                srcDir = srcDir+srcFileName 
                dstDir = dstDir+dstFileName                   
         
            elif dstFileName is None or not dstFileName: 
                dstFileName = srcFileName 
                dstDir = dstDir+date_format+dstFileName                   
           
            elif dstFileName.isspace(): 
                dstFileName = srcFileName 
                dstDir = dstDir+date_format+dstFileName                   
           
            else: 
                dstDir = dstDir+date_format+dstFileName   
            
            shutil.copy2(srcDir, dstDir) 
  
            print("Backup Successful!") 
        except FileNotFoundError: 
            print("File does not exists!,\ 
            please provide the complete path") 
      
    except PermissionError:   
        dstDir = dstDir+date_format+dstFileName           
       
        shutil.copytree(srcFileName, dstDir) 
  
takeBackup("data.txt")

6. Schedule Computer Shutdown

If you’re done with your work on specific time then you can create computer shutdown sceduler to shutdown your computer on that specific time everyday.

import schedule
import time
import os

when = "20:00"
print("The computer will be shutdown at " + when + "")

def shudownComputer():
    os.system("shutdown /s /t 1")

schedule.every().day.at(when).do(shudownComputer)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Conclusion

By utilizing the power of Python automation, you can reduce error, save time and enhance productivity.