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Automatically Generate Charts from CSV Files with One Command

Read a CSV file with headers, extract the first two numeric columns, and save a matplotlib line chart as a PNG image.

import csv
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def generate_chart(csv_path: str) -> None:
    """Read a CSV file with headers and plot the first two numeric columns."""
    data = []
    with open(csv_path, 'r', newline='') as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f)
        headers = next(re…

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Automation & scripting easy

Automatically Log CPU, RAM, and Disk Usage Every Minute in Python

This script logs CPU, RAM, and disk usage to a CSV file every 60 seconds using psutil and Python's standard library.

psutil automation monitoring

Python

import psutil
import time
import csv
from pathlib import Path

LOG_FILE = Path("system_usage_log.csv")
INTERVAL_SECONDS = 60

def log_system_usage():
    """Write CPU, RAM, and disk usage to CSV every minute."""
    file_exists = LOG_FILE.exists()
    with open(LOG_FILE, mode="a", newline="") as f:
        writer = cs…

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Automation & scripting medium

Build a Complete Web Scraper with Requests and BeautifulSoup in Python

Scrape multiple paginated pages from a website using Requests and BeautifulSoup, with retry logic, error handling, and CSV export.

web scraping requests beautifulsoup

Python

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import time
from typing import List, Dict, Optional

class WebScraper:
    def __init__(self, base_url: str, output_file: str = "scraped_data.csv"):
        self.base_url = base_url
        self.output_file = output_file
        self.session = requests.Session()…

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