Basically, I need to write a Python script that can download all of the attachment files in an e-mail, and then organize them based on their name. I am new to using Python to interact with other applications, so I was wondering if you had any pointers regarding this, mainly how to create a link to Lotus Notes (API)?
You can do this in LotusScript as an export of data. This could be an agent that walks down a view in Notes, selects a document, document attachments could be put into a directory. Then with those objects in the directory(ies) you can run any script you like like a shell script or whatever.
With LotusScript you can grab out meta data or other meaningful text for your directory name. Detach the objects you want from richtext then move to the next document. The view that you travel down will effect the type of documents that you are working with.
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For a Python web project (with Django) I developed a tool that generates an XLSX file. For questions of ergonomics and ease for users I would like to integrate this excel on my HTML page.
So I first thought of converting the XLSX to an HTML array, with the xlsx2html python library. It works but since I can’t determine the desired size for my cells or trim the content during conversion, I end up with huge cells and tiny text..
I found an interesting way with the html tag associated with OneDrive to embed an excel window into a web page, but my file being in my code and not on Excel Online I cannot import it like that. Yet the display is perfect and I don’t need the user to interact with this table.
I have searched a lot for other methods but apart from developing a function to browse my file and generate the script of the html table line by line, I have the feeling that I cannot simply use a method to convert or display it on my web page.
I am not accustomed to this need and wonder if there would not be a cleaner method to display an excel file in html.
Does it make sense to develop a function that builds my html table script in str? Or should I find a library that does it? Maybe there is a specific Django library ?
Thank you for your experience
i need to create a web scraper for this website
However I need to get the links for the counties, stored in the interactive map
Unfortunately, for some reason, their search engine doesn't provide all the results as the interactive map does.
My question:
Could anyone tell me how to get all the links for all the counties, without manually accessing them?
Thanks
Technically you can use a decompiler to do this job.
There are free (e.g.: ActionScript Extractor) and paid (e.g.: Sothink
SWF Decompiler) tools out there.
you can reference this answer
Edit :
Most swf content gets external records from either a .xml or .json file.
Without decompiling and just using the browser's Developer Tools we can see that an xml file is indeed accessed (maybe it contains what you want) :
http://www.allpetservices.co.uk/uk_ir_locator.xml.
Put view-source: in front of the link to read it (if there's an error message).
In that xml you want to extract the contents (the xyz) of each & every <link> xyz </link> tag. This will give you the links of every entry on the map.
The short answer to your question: There's no way to get the links from the site.
The solution: The structure of the links you are trying to retrieve are very predictable. They follow the same structure:
http://www.allpetservices.co.uk/search_map.asp?ccounty={COUNTY_NAME}
So, if you can use another site or data source to get the names of each of the counties, you can formulate each of the links that you need.
I want to email out a document that will be filled in by many people and emailed back to me. I will then parse the responses using Python and load them into my database.
What is the best format to send out the initial document in?
I was thinking an interactive .pdf but do not want to have to pay for Adobe XI. Alternatively maybe a .html file but I'm not sure how easy it is to save the state of it once its been filled in in order to be emailed back to me. A .xls file may also be a solution but I'm leaning away from it simply because it would not be a particularly professional looking format.
The key points are:
Answers can be easily parsed using Python
The format should common enough to open on most computers
The document should look relatively pleasing to the eye
Send them a web-page with a FORM section, complete with some Javascript to grab the contents of the controls and send them to you (e.g. in JSON format) when they press "submit".
Another option is to set it up as a web application. There are several Python web frameworks that could be used for that. You could then e-mail people a link to the web-app.
Why don't you use Google Docs for the form. Create the form in Google Docs and save the answer in an excel sheet. And then use any python Excel format reader (Google them) to read the file. This way you don't need to parse through mails and will be performance friendly too. Or you could just make a simple form using AppEngine and save the data directly to the database.
There is a stock screening website called finviz. You can set up specific parameters for it to screen, and then there is a button in the bottom right corner that lets you export the results as a .cvs file.
I would like to create a script, in python 2.7, that will download and analyze the file. I imagine I can use urllib2 to access the website, but how can I trigger the export, and then read from that resulting file? Using the standard urllib2.urlopen(url).read(), returns an html file for the entire site, and not the export I need.
So it turns out, at least in this case, the export button is really a link to a different url. So where the screener's url might be: http://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=111&f=sh_price_u1.
The export version of the url is: http://finviz.com/export.ashx?v=111&f=sh_price_u1.
The second url has the funcitonality of triggering download, so instead of urllib2.urlopen("http://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=111&f=sh_price_u1").read() I need
urllib2.urlopen("http://finviz.com/export.ashx?v=111&f=sh_price_u1").read()
This one does the job in python. Have a look. https://github.com/nicolamr/trending-value
In my office we have about 1000 PDFs that have arbitrary title and author information. My bosses had a spreadsheet created with the PDFs filename and an appropriate title and appropriate author information.
I would like to find a programmatic way to move the data from the Excel sheet to the PDF attributes?
My preferred language is Python so I looked for a Python library to do this, each library I looked at had the author and title fields as read-only.
If Python doesn't have a library that works I am okay using VBA, VB.NET, JavaScript... I will take this as an opportunity to learn a new language.
If you want to learn java you can use the Apache PDFBox
Here is an implementation example.
Use Action Wizard in Acrobat X Pro.
Create New Action.
Setup Start With, and Save To step.
Set checkbox Overwrite existing files.
Select Content. Select Add Document Description.
Left mouse click in option. Uncheck Autor checkbox Leave As Is and enter new Autor name.
Press Save button, set name action Your Action Name.
Run Action:
File- Action Wizard - Your Action Name.
I test it - work).