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Python Web Scraping + Email & Cronjob

Concise Is Nice

This video shows how to use email, writing to a file, and a cronjob scheduler to make python web scraping actually useful and practical.

Resources:

Python Writing Files: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/reading-writing-files-python

Python Date/Time: https://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/06/how-to-get-current-date-and-time-in/

Python Email: https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html

Cronjob (Linux/Mac): https://askubuntu.com/questions/2368/how-do-i-set-up-a-cron-job

Windows Task Scheduler: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-create-task-basic-task-wizard

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