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Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Who should read this book
  • 1.2 How to read the book
  • 1.3 Conventions
  • 1.4 Code files
  • 1.5 Feedback
• 2 Scraping Steam Using lxml
  • 2.1 Exploring Steam
  • 2.2 Start writing a Python script
  • 2.3 Fire up the Python Interpreter
  • 2.4 Extract the titles & prices
  • 2.5 Extracting tags
  • 2.6 Extracting the platforms
  • 2.7 Putting everything together
  • 2.8 Troubleshoot
  • 2.9 Next Steps
• 3 Automatic Invoice Generation
  • 3.1 Setting up the project
  • 3.2 Creating an invoice template
  • 3.3 Generating PDF from HTML
  • 3.4 Creating Flask application
  • 3.5 Making invoice dynamic
  • 3.6 Dynamic invoice to PDF
  • 3.7 Getting values from client
  • 3.8 Troubleshoot
  • 3.9 Next steps
• 4 FIFA World Cup Twilio Bot
  • 4.1 Getting your tools ready
  • 4.2 Defining the project requirements
  • 4.3 Finding and exploring the FIFA API
  • 4.4 Start writing app.py
  • 4.5 Getting started with Twilio
  • 4.6 Finishing up app.py
  • 4.7 Troubleshoot
  • 4.8 Next Steps
• 5 Article Summarization & Automated Image Generation
  • 5.1 Getting ready
  • 5.2 Downloading and Parsing
  • 5.3 Generate the summary
  • 5.4 Downloading & Cropping images
  • 5.5 Overlaying Text on Images
  • 5.6 Posting the Story on Instagram
  • 5.7 Troubleshoot
  • 5.8 Next Steps
• 6 Making a Reddit + Facebook Messenger Bot
  • 6.1 Creating a Reddit app
  • 6.2 Creating an App on Heroku
  • 6.3 Creating a basic Python application
  • 6.4 Creating a Facebook App
  • 6.5 Getting data from Reddit
  • 6.6 Putting everything together
  • 6.7 Troubleshoot
  • 6.8 Next Steps
• 7 Cinema Pre-show Generator
  • 7.1 Setting up the project
  • 7.2 Sourcing video resources
  • 7.3 Getting movie information
  • 7.4 Downloading the trailers
  • 7.5 Merging trailers together
  • 7.6 Final Code
  • 7.7 Troubleshoot
  • 7.8 Next Steps
• 8 Full Page Scroll Animation Video
  • 8.1 Installing required libraries
  • 8.2 Getting the Screenshot
  • 8.3 Animating the screenshot
  • 8.4 Compositing the clips
  • 8.5 Taking user input
  • 8.6 Troubleshooting
  • 8.7 Next Steps
• 9 Visualizing Server Locations
  • 9.1 Sourcing the Data
  • 9.2 Cleaning Data
  • 9.3 Visualization
  • 9.4 Basic map plot
  • 9.5 Animating the map
  • 9.6 Troubleshooting
  • 9.7 Next steps
• 10 Understanding and Decoding a JPEG Image using Python
  • 10.1 Getting started
  • 10.2 Different parts of a JPEG
  • 10.3 Encoding a JPEG
  • 10.4 JPEG decoding
  • 10.5 Next Steps
• 11 Making a TUI Email Client
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 IMAP vs POP3 vs SMTP
  • 11.3 Sending Emails
  • 11.4 Receiving Emails
  • 11.5 Creating a TUI
  • 11.6 Next Steps
• 12 A Music/Video GUI Downloader
  • 12.1 Prerequisites
  • 12.2 GUI Mockup
  • 12.3 Basic Qt app
  • 12.4 Layout Management
  • 12.5 Coding the layout of Downloader
  • 12.6 Adding Business Logic
  • 12.7 Testing
  • 12.8 Issues
  • 12.9 Next steps
• 13 Deploying Flask to Production
  • 13.1 Basic Flask App
  • 13.2 Container vs Virtual Environment
  • 13.3 UWSGI
  • 13.4 NGINX
  • 13.5 Startup Script
  • 13.6 Docker File
  • 13.7 Persistence
  • 13.8 Docker Compose
  • 13.9 Troubleshooting
  • 13.10 Next Steps
• 14 Acknowledgements
  • 14.1 Bug Submissions
• 15 Afterword