September Report Card -- No Longer a True Noob?

A True "Newbie" knows nothings, does nothing.

When it comes to Python, I can no longer say I'm incapable of anything meaningful.

I'm writing code. And it works ---sometimes right out of the gate. (That includes writing my own "modules". Guess what ? No more circular import crashes. Click (here) for back story.

Click (here) for background music if you want.)

I'm hitting the paywalls in some of the initially-free YouTube courses like Real Python (here = Getting Started with Lists)

I'm doing practice sessions with my own code rather than copying from recipes (Left click on below to see bigger images):




So which pigeon hole now defines me in the Learning Python realm?


I have yet to master all of Indently's lessons on the 47 string methods or on the 11 list methods or the 11 dictionary methods or so many others of the documented "fundamentals" and yet here I am contemplating making that quantum jump to OOPs (Object Oriented Programming) and using the same to define and pack CSV-like URL objects.

What is the project goal and plan?
I have too many (100's of) websites bookmarked and not categorized.
I would like to have a data structure with multiple fields, including the following:
➤ Coded field starters e.g., ▌sol▌= Start of line, ▌hot▌= Hierarchy of Topics, ▌eol▌= End of line, ▌com▌= Comment (follows), 
▌url▌= URL, ▌ura▌= Author name for URL,  ▌urt▌= Title of URL,  ▌sum▌= Summary of URL contents, ▌dex▌= Detailed explanation of URL contents,  ▌uro▌= List of other URLs related to the current one, ▌uri▌= List of web images related to the current URL

OK. Sorry. A detour being taken here. I'm first going to try to learn web scraping. Started out with a 5-year old tutorial by Tech with Tim using Slelnium. Couldn't get it to work Some module internal errors in Selenium. Now I found a web scrape tutorial by Josh (here) and he's using BeautifulSoup (imported from bs4?). Haven't worked the details yet. Stay tuned.

Wait. Back up. Found another tutorial, this time by NeuralNine (here) and he is using Selenium. Part of his lecture does work ... up to the point where we launch his web page, maximize it and print out the list of a-tags that have the word "Books" in their "innerHTML". The click function is not working for me though.

I'm noting that above lecture by NeuralNine is 3 years old.
Maybe there is a more up to date one?
So we search his YT channel for all posts with "selenium" and find (this set of results).

Not now, cause it's late at night for me, but next step will be to review these finds for a more recent use of Selenium. ... TBC


MORE TO EXPLORE 
What is the best web scraping module?
More on what is best web scraper?
Tech With Tim -- Top 18 Most Useful Python Modules [including web scrapers]
Apify -- What are the best Python web scraping libraries?
Cybernews -- What are the best web scraping tools in 2025? | Best 3 providers reviewed
John Watson Rooney -- “Requests + BS4” but [not] for 2025

... tbc

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