Automating Your Browser and Desktop Apps
summary
Shows concrete recipes using Requests and Beautiful Soup to download and parse pages, then Selenium controls Firefox via get, find_element_by_css_selector, click and send_keys to drive real browser JS state, and PyAutoGUI uses locateOnScreen image matching and a fail‑safe (slam mouse to top‑left) to move mouse and type. Live demos build a Sushi Go Round bot that plays automatically and scores higher than a casual human though top players beat it, with occasional demo flakiness.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:39Web Scraping
- 2:33Selenium
- 8:24CSS Selector Syntax
- 12:32Reading Data from the Web Page
- 14:28Installing PyAutoGUI
- 14:49Mouse Control
- 18:40Keyboard Control
- 21:17Spiral Drawing Live Demo
- 23:02WARNING
- 23:43Failsafe
- 29:04What is GUI automation used for?
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