Like most people who tend to DIY many parts of their lifes, i too pledge guilty of the program-your-own-tools sin. For a long time i used to track my monthly finances in an ever growing excel sheet. Building functions which became more and more difficult over time. I knew i had to switch to an alternative sometime in the future and finally made the decision to program that solution myself. ...
In a recent project i had to extract data from a website which did not offer any API-access. To make matters worse, the data gets loaded via JS, so trying to automate python-requests would be a huge pain in the butt. If you have come across the same problem, you probably also stumbled upon Selenium. While the official Docs can be pretty bad at times, especially if you’re just starting out and have no idea which modules you need to import, there are lots of stackoverflow-threads which will get you going along. ...