This content demonstrates how to build simple Python scripts to automate personal tasks, such as converting PDFs to audio and cleaning up download folders, while also highlighting their value for showcasing technical skills to potential employers.
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okay I am really excited for this video
getting to build with python different
scripts to automate my life sounds like
a really good idea there's so much in my
life that I can automate and I'm going
to share with you today some really cool
and honestly really simple python
projects that you can build to automate
your life but not only are these scripts
really interesting for actually
automating your life and doing really
cool stuff but it's a great way to show
potential and future employers different
projects or things that you are working
on a lot of these scripts can really be
built out into quite large projects that
you can make around them push them to
your GitHub show you are constantly
building and it's just a really fun
thing to do okay let's get started oh
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get to it
where are we going we're not going too far
before we get into it though I want to
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to start building with them foreign
foreign
something I've been wanting to build for
a while is a script that will take a PDF
and turn it into an audio file
oftentimes if I'm studying or learning
something new and it's in PDF format and
I have to spend so much time reading it
I would prefer to just be listening to
it so I built a script with python that
will take any PDF and convert it into an
audio file let's get building first
thing we are going to be building as I
mentioned is turning a PDF into an MP3
file and this is super simple there's
two packages required but before we get
into it last time I made a python
project I got a lot of questions around
setting up the project in Python because
last time we used replit this time we
are in vs code so I'm going to share
with you a few commands to a ensure you
are installed python is installed and
really how to get your virtual
environment running first thing we need
to do is check that you have python
installed or what python version you
have and of course if you don't have
python installed pause this video and go
install it we're not going to do that in
this video because it's pretty Excel
explanatory online
all right so you can see I have python
3.9.10 installed then what we need to do
is get our virtual environment up and
running so
first of all you can see um in the
project I already have it up and running
but just to show you what I did so type
it's not not there
okay so now you can see we are in our
virtual environment
next up we need to install these two
packages so we go and once again I am
the worst seller on the planet so let me
just copy this command I've written down
install and p y t t x x
three and this is actually a module that
is a text to speech conversion library
in Python and this is going to be a huge
help in getting us to convert our text
into speech go
go
next up we need to install
and I already installed this as well but
I just want to go through the process
with you to ensure you understand
and this one here that we just installed
is a python Library used for performing
major tasks on PDF files and in this
case we have a book PDF so any PDF you
want to turn into audio put it in your
project directory okay now let's get
into some coding the fun part
so first of all what we need to do is
open the PDF so let's call this PDF reader
reader
I told you we can't spell today and then
[Music]
and here we are going to pass in the PDF
foreign
we need to initiate speaker
[Music] foreign
foreign [Music]
text
[Music] foreign
then we want to actually take that
speaker and save it to file to save it
as an MP3 I pass in the clean text
and what do we now we pass and whatever
we want to call is MP3 file I'm going to
call it story
story time
time [Music]
then we stop it
[Music]
here we go we can see printed printed
out text and we have our MP3 this is
really simple it's really fun easy
project I need two modules from Python
and it's a really
really simple thing to build but you can
imagine how powerful it can get when you
are using large PDFs if you want
specific Pages there's so much you can
play around with this so I will link all
the code below and I really encourage
you to uh really take this clone this
and build on top of it build a really
cool project and it really shows
initiative when you are pushing things
to GitHub that you're building things
like this and expanding on them and also
too when you are looking for uh future
drafts okay project two this is a big
one I'm not even going to show you if
you've seen past videos you've seen my
desktop folder or my desktop and it's a
disaster equally as bad if even worse is
actually my downloads folder so I wanted
to build a python script that we could
actually use to clean out my downloads
folder and for this I wanted to be
specific into which file formats I
wanted to be able to delete let's get
into it okay project number two that we
are going to be doing is being able to
access our downloads folder and then
delete specific files from that folder
and this is something that I'm sure
you've all had the instances of where
your downloads folder is just kind of
out of control for this I'm going to do
it that it deletes specific files but
you could also really add on to this so
it's for the entire downloads folder or
different extensions but I really wanted
to do this is the base you can build
upon it and I'm not going to go through
again the showing you how to start the
virtual environment I'm assuming that
you have done that from the previous
project first thing we need to do is
import and install the OS module which
really gives us access to our operating
system then we need to give a file path
that we want to access and in this case
there's construction going on
and in this case we are going to be
accessing our downloads
so replace Tiffany Jansen with your name
[Music]
the file path exists let's remove it and
successfully being deleted
ah delete Ted okay there we go and then else
oh it's really annoying that I did one
with one quote and everything um
okay so we have a file path here as you
can see but we need to give it a
specific file so let me go my downloads
folder I am not going to show you this
folder because it's a disaster this is
why we are doing this and one file that
two dogs surgery but once again you
could we could replace this and make it
Dynamic to delete all PDFs or delete
everything in the downloads folder I
just wanted to start small to show you
this also if you didn't catch it from
last time a simple way to run a python
in your terminal is right click and then
I was like right or left click right
click and then go run python file and
terminal should get successfully deleted
this file has successfully been deleted
yay but then if I was to run it again
because now it doesn't exist it should
there you have it those are two really
small but fun things to do think of
different ways that you could even put
these together and it's really just
playing around with different modules in
Python doing some kind of conditional
statements and um whatnot but it's such
a fun way to think of different projects
to build and expand upon so I linked my
GitHub down below which will feature
both of these and okay
we've done our work here
okay we have built some really cool
scripts if you ask me I'm curious to
know what else should we automate what
should we automate next leave down in
the comments and let's continue building
together I link the projects down below
too so make sure to go check them out
build them then build on top of them
like I said it's a great way to add to
your portfolio to contribute to you know
bulk up your GitHub all of that okay you
can see the sun is out
it's time to go enjoy the weekend bye everyone
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