Automating My Life with Python: The Ultimate Guide | Code With Me 

Gonna need that source code 👀

So, a really helpful function here would be the os walk function. It'll recursively iterate through every file in a directory. From there, in your loop you could check the file extension and remove based on that or any other condition. From there, you could use the argparse package and take arguments from the cli to ask the user things like what files they want to remove or the file extensions they want to remove. Then after that, you could think about putting everything in functions so as to not pollute the global namespace and use the standard "if __name__ == '__main__'" pattern. Lots of different, cool things you can do here, a great beginner project!

Hi friends! In this video we are going to be building some fun things with Python that can actually help automate tasks in your life! What should we build next?

You finally convinced me to learn Python on my own. I'm a C++ and C# programmer and we don't use Python at work. You have been showing us what we can do with Python and I am amazed. Thanks for the tips. I'm interested in face recognition and fingerprints reading softwares.

Just started a Data Science bootcamp - binge watching for tonnes of research. This was a great insight into something a little more interesting than the boring mess I've had thrown at me so far. Cheers.

Beautiful and Smart! Just starting my Python journey - will be tuning in for more! Thx Tiff, keep 'em coming!

Awesome tutorial and video Tiff!! Thanks for partnering with us on sharing #oneAPI 💙

I read webnovels and few years ago before Tencent saw the huge western market there were a bunch of different websites for each novel, they were translated into english. So keeping track of them became a bit tiring and if I used a webpage if it was down, well RIP. So I taught myself javascript and made a chrome extension that I can use on my PC and Tablet, using firebase to store my novels database. I love stats so keeping track of what I read, how many words, chapters etc. was fun and useful. Some novels have character names that I don't like or use censorship on words, replacing them is easy, saving it for each novel individually and so on. Using it daily. Another project of mine is a tool to add some data into my spreadsheet, I made a project that does a lot of calculations for me and adds it to the Google spreadsheet. ofc there are others, but those too are my most used and useful ones.

Great video!!! I would like to suggest a correction at 05:03 :- text = pdfreader.getPage(page_num).extractText() actually works for PDFs that have a single page. But if a PDF has multiple pages, then the text gets overwritten with the contents of the new page. So, to avoid that we can append the new page's content to the current text and then format the text into clean_text after the end of the loop

I loved this. Would love to see more projects that youve done!

1)Make a mouse and key logger, that saves mouse position, and major mouse events as a sequence. Use that to replay the sequence as fast as you want and as many times as u want using python. 2) find a way to put chatGPT talking to it self in python.

Thank you for the 2 inspiring projects. When trying the first one, I had to spend quite a lot of time debugging, possibly due to the fact that the used modules have been updated since the video has been made and a number of functions had been renamed (even ChatGPT is not updated regarding PyPDF2 3.0.0 !). If you wish to save your time, here is the updated code, with a little correction to the loop: import pyttsx3, PyPDF2 title = input("Which book would you like to listen to? ") + ".pdf" pdfreader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(open(title, 'rb')) speaker = pyttsx3.init() first_page = input("Starting with what page? ") last_page = input("Ending with what page? ") text = "" for page_number in range(int(first_page - 1), int(last_page)): text = text + pdfreader.pages[page_number].extract_text() clean_text = text.strip().replace(' ', ' ') print(clean_text) speaker.save_to_file(clean_text, 'result2.mp3') speaker.runAndWait speaker.stop() Now this version correctly prints out the converted text, but fails to create the mp3 file, don't know why. Chat GPT created this version of the code, which works, and the resulting voice reading is actually surprisingly clear: import fitz # PyMuPDF import pyttsx3 # Get the input file name title = input("Which book would you like to listen to? ") + ".pdf" # Initialize the text-to-speech engine speaker = pyttsx3.init() # User input for page range first_page = int(input("Starting with what page? ")) last_page = int(input("Ending with what page? ")) # Initialize an empty text variable text = "" # Open the PDF file pdf_document = fitz.open(title) # Loop through pages and extract text for page_number in range(first_page - 1, min(last_page, len(pdf_document))): page = pdf_document.load_page(page_number) text += page.get_text() # Close the PDF document pdf_document.close() # Save the MP3 file mp3_output = input("How would you like to call the resulting .mp3 file? ") + ".mp3" speaker.save_to_file(text, mp3_output) speaker.runAndWait() speaker.stop() print(f"Text extracted and saved as {mp3_output}")

Thanks for sharing Tiff, the pdf to audio project would create a lot of time savings for me!

So I just discovered your channel. One thing many tech channels have in common is the presenter is horrible- fast paced, difficult to understand, and language barrier. This channel is none of those. So glad to find a channel that’s simple and straightforward.

Filling out forms has really been a livesaver for me. Especially when you can make it dynamic to work for several webpages.

This was an inspiring video, I like the first project but I think i want to investigate observing images and attempting to pull text from images. I have a ton of old PDF's of scanned books that are no longer in print, that don't have any digital versions available, so it's just scans or nothing. That would be nice to be able to digitize.

When you said "if even worse" I knew the downloads folder was coming haha... My work computer's downloads folder is the scariest place on Earth. Great vid!

Hey Tiff! This video is awesome! In your terminal for VSCode how do you get it to say "python"? My terminal shows a file path instead and doesn't look clean at all.

For Project 2, I really like using pathlib. You can iterate through a dynamic file path if you just did "for file in list(Path(downloads_folder).rglob('*.pdf')): file.unlink()" for pdf files. You can also do it via comprehension list.

Permission to come aboard TnT 1st., time viewer of your show I thought that online discovery learning coding, is cool! MerryXmas🎅🏻 & may you have a fantastic holiday season❄,🤘🏼!

Your camera is amazing clear! The video looks so good and you look so good in it! Would you mind me asking what dslr you are using?

Thank you for sharing ....very helpful. I think that I will spend some time with Python thanks to your video. Very powerful and limitless

After years of programming in C, C+, etc., I fell in love with Python, Numpy and Pandas. I sincerely recommend :).

I love the way you display what music you play!

Tiff , you are the best !!. I have learned a lot with you !!. Thanks

Excellent. Thank you, this gets me excited to learn python.

I wanted to make a grocery shopping list, by selecting recipes in a database, where the code adds up all the amounts for each common item. Results come out in an Excel spreadsheet!

Hi Tiff, Nice video and well-spoken. The PDF to audio might have a problem. I think that it will only produce the last page as audio, because all previous pages will be overwritten in the for loop.

Clean up picture duplicates and file them by category or by date if they don't have a category (in a table). Recognize certain categories automagically (sailing pictures, motorcycle pictures, faces). I like the PDF reader! So nice and simple.

might be a bug in pdf to mp3. You re only converting the last page of the pdf since you don't concatenate each page together in your loop.

Wow, really cool, but i've a question about pdf speech reader script, is there any support to another language or is it only in english? Anyway... Nice job Tiffany, great stuff.

For those who are used to bundling exe files. pyinstaller for Python does a great job.

Awesome video. New sub here. Good deal to learn from ya! You RAWK!❤

Great video! Can you play the .mp3 clip and/or post more info on how to match a specific voice for the mp3?

This just what I´m lookig for! Thanks!

Thank you. Inspiring, regardless of the minor critical comments. Will work through it.

A good lesson, if you know the web, then learning python will not be difficult.

Hi, Love your videos, what setup (software and hardware) are you using to create them?

Wow you made my life easier! Thanks a lot.

Thanks for making this tutorial 🙌

Nice project! I've just noticed your video as I'm the maintainer of pypdf and PyPDF2. The timing was unfortunate: I've decided to deprecate PyPDF2 and move forward with pypdf. The syntax is pretty much the same. However, you're also using the deprecated PdfFileReader. This will fail with PyPDF2>=3.0.0. As you haven't pinned the version in 3:30 people will stumble over this.

Hi Tiffany, I am very exciting to see your Python video that automate tasks very much,. Which text editor are you using for this video? Are you recommending to use Jupyter, PyCharm, Sublime? Happy New Year to you

please do never stop making videos. they are awesome

Great way to apply Python in real life!

Thx Tiff, love this!

Hello , the thing I like in ur programming way is that u are not programming like super heroes , but u programme like ordinary people and u do magical things 🌹

There are two convenient small things. I try first code and see the sentences it print, but it can’t save anything. If I just use "speak.say(clean_text)", I can hear it fine. But when I try to "speak.say(clean_text)", then "save_to_file(clean_text, file name.mp3)", the production of mp3 file ends up being ahead of the actual pronunciation.

Thank you showin for how Ideas and Phython works together, i want to learn python but i dont know if i can realize my ideas with python....a bit a complicated process. Data Science is interessting but i am not a coder so what can python do? My first idea that follows me is that i want to solve problemes inside linux and windows like errors you dont see (beginner struggle) and asking yourself whats going on here...i thougth python can grab some of the hidden infos and popup a little helper....and so so...like "you forgot using sudo - type in sudo - here is a webpage what shows u hints using it".

Very good topic. Spelling mistakes are normal in live coding situations and non scripted sessions. Don’t initiate influence leakage by apologizing about your spellings when it is not a big deal. You have a good topic, good professional presentation however your copy/ script can be rehearsed to improve the flow. It gets better with experience and chatGPT. Good luck.

What learning material do you recommend for a beginner who wants to learn Python?

Hi Tiff! Thank you so much for all you do for the community 😀. Question for you... I'm currently playing around with the PDF to audio example and am able to get it to read the text from the PDF after running the Python code in my terminal as suggested but it won't generate the .mp3 file for some reason despite my project having the PDF file needed. Any thoughts on why this could be? I've tried other PDF files as well and got the same result. Thanks!

Thanks for the video, I converted a 100-page pdf but the mp3 file generated was very short, less than a page. Am I missing anything? what do I need to add to the code to convert all 100 pages?

like the pdf to audio idea. BTW; I believe you are only saving the last page to the mp3. Intended ?

For the second project: How do you make it dynamic to look at all the PDF files or be able to look at files with similar names?

Thank you! excellent video

Thanks for this video....Could you tell me about your camera?....Is it a Sony video camera?

in the first part, you got my curiosity. second part, you got my attention

Amazing video, can you tell me the model name of your desk?

first time visitor... trying to set this up in pycharm... should that be doable without a lot of grief... also wondering if it would be possible to create a customizable filter for youtube... something that would allow you to create some diversity on what shows up on your youtube homepage.

Thanks!! It would be cool if you could test that the file is working!

Chat GPT 4, can summarize and bring out highlights of a PDF as well. No code, unless you need to do it en masse as an integration

This might be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway. We can do the same thing in Jupyter Notebook right? 🤔

Amazing video!

Thanks Tiff, but why don't you run the audio file to check it?

I liked how you said: "not gonna explain how to install python", though is this working as intended, it seems to me clean_text would contain only last page, because it's been overwritten in every iteration, and the resulting mp3 would be only for last page?

Nicely done!

very useful video Thanks 😊

I was struggling with pdf project so much, you don't have idea, I'm just thinking about more implementations that I can input and all that stuff lmao

Hi Tiff, In order to read the PDF file, where should I save it. Like I use VScode for the coding for the first project.

Thank you really , can you make a python tutorial for complete beginners by building projects from scratch like 30 days of python , you really know how to teach , all respect and love from Belgium

Do you happen to use Emacs or code in any Lisp dialects? The thumbnail got me hopeful.

You seem to be a very sharp tech person, and your pdf to speech automation python script seems to be a very handy time saving script, but now, as I'm sure you know, AI like ChatGPT and many others do that, but I guess it's okay for someone who is learning to program. On the other hand, your delete files in download folder seems to take longer than if you just go into the downloads folder and delete them manually. So people are doing it to learn programming I guess it's okay, but it's a fail when it comes to automation. But I'll give you another chance. So go out there and find some automation scripts that really can save time and effort... you can do it!

So I'm kinda wondering.. wouldn't the mp3 only contain the last page? Since the clean_text variable is reset in the for cycle. Anyway for a 6 minute of code and to give some great ideas it is perfect :D Thanks for the inspiration.

I'd like to hear that resulting book.mp3 file. Is it very robotic or does it sound natural? Is it audiobook quality or would it drive you insane?

What about a script to copy and paste content from every pdf, xlsx or docx file to a page in a Notion database? :) I'll try this whenever I have free time...

OMG. Wanted so much to watch this but I can't concentrate! You are so beautiful. lol Also wanted to ask why are you not a model but just watched your 1st video :)

In the first section the mp3 only contains the last page, I believe, as text is not concatenated with prev. ones !

Amazing video. ChatGPT helped me fix some issues with the updated version of pdfreader. But still, this script only converts 1 first sentence of my PDF for some reason. Looks like it stops after a period in text. Anyone knows how to fix it?

The Intel one API thing sounds good.

why do you copy paste commands? or is it also a process of automation?

Nice video and tutorial. Thanks. I

The last program. Does it put the deleted file in the recycle bin?

Nice project, I love you.

Hi! Are those codes running locally? If I upload them to Google Drive or OneDrive, any chance of them running using Cloud?

Hey Tiff what is your OS ?

You did a good job with the title and the thumbnail! They actually fooled me into believing that this video had at least a bit of work put into it and it wouldn't be completely useless. This has nothing to do with automation nor with anything life related so good job on the clickbait I guess.

How do you get it to delete a specific file type for example if I wanted to delete all files that are .csv?

I love you Tiffany. This is really cool 😍 😍 🔥

Great 👍👍

Thank you very much

It's ok if you want something basic (it has no expressivity, it doesn't consider punctuation, etc.), it's not the old Loquendo, nor some new AI product.

is that platform independent (works at linux? / ubuntu? )

this was really cool

Is this useful for RPA development?

What is the advantage of Python over other languages?

Neat, thanks.

hi i am kind of a noob when it comes to coding, and i built a project using tkinter for gui which will open a selected pdf and turn it into mp3, however it only works with small files, any idea how can i make it happen for big files too? like 500 pages book?

Great job with the video Tiff! 🚀 If anyone’s looking for more Python tutorials, we’ve released Loguru logging, task scheduling, and more to help the community too 💪

when you use a new library, how do you know how to use the new functions?

one more thing, i fail to see how it supposed to run if the loop will overwrite the clean_text on every itteration... i would love some help with that