Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
Overview
The most popular practical Python automation book — teaching how to automate repetitive tasks including file handling, web scraping, spreadsheets, email, and PDF processing.
Full Description
Al Sweigart's 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' has introduced millions of people to the power of automation. The book is entirely practical: each chapter builds a real automation script for tasks like renaming thousands of files, scraping websites, filling out forms, sending scheduled emails, reading PDFs, and manipulating spreadsheets. While written before the current AI wave, it remains the essential foundation for AI automation engineers — understanding how to script, manipulate data, and chain operations is the bedrock on which AI automation tools like n8n and Make.com are built. Available free online.