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Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - rompdeck - Jul-27-2020
I download some jpg files (A4 size) from a website and convert all the files into a single pdf file and email it.
The jpg files are in a url format of:
http://URL.com/RPT/2020/07/26/<page no>
The date today is 2020/7/26 and page number as 2 char (01-15)
How can I automate the whole process so it does it automatically without any thing from me?
My technical background is I learnt MS office packages in school and completed FreeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Design Certification and I am currently doing Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I am hoping this is "web scraping", not sure how to classify this project.
I just have a laptop, no server or any cloud accounts. So, I am hoping that I can run it program/script (not sure of the difference) on some free service.
Is Google App Script capable of doing what I want?
Pls mention the steps I need to follow or better if you can like me to a tutorial of anyone doing a project similar to mine.
RE: Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - Larz60+ - Jul-27-2020
you should learn how to use python requests package: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/
it can be installed with
pip install requestsfor binary file (which images are) call like:
get_file('myfile url', bytes=True), otherwise get_file('myfile url')a simple download would be something like:
import requests
def get_file(url, bytes=False):
response = requests,get(url)
if response == 200:
if bytes:
return response.content
else:
return response.text
else:
print(f"Bad status code: {response.status_code}"
return None # This command is ambiguous and may be eliminated.
RE: Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - rompdeck - Jul-29-2020
(Jul-27-2020, 08:54 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: you should learn how to use python requests package: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/
how do I run it on a server so that I dont have to run it from my laptop?
RE: Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - Larz60+ - Jul-29-2020
This is just a code snippet that I wrote on the fly.
I expect that you would write additional code around what I suggested here.
RE: Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - rompdeck - Jul-30-2020
(Jul-29-2020, 09:01 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: This is just a code snippet that I wrote on the fly.
I expect that you would write additional code around what I suggested here.
I want to write my own code. But my question is to run on a server do I have to make it a flask application? I have not written code to run on server, so what do I need to run this code on a server?
RE: Download some JPG files and make it a single PDF & share it - Larz60+ - Jul-31-2020
you will need some way to access from server, flask or some other framework.