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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By : Chetan Giridhar
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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By: Chetan Giridhar

Overview of this book

<p>This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.</p> <p>With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.</p> <p>A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You’ll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.</p> <p>This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Automate it!
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Registering with a cloud telephony provider


To work with cloud-based telephony services, we need to register for an account with a telephony provider. There are a couple of popular cloud providers that you can find when you search on the Internet. For this chapter, we use Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/). Let's see how to register for an account.

Getting ready

In order to use cloud telephony APIs, we need to register for an account with Twilio so that we can get the AccountSID and AuthToken. We'd also need to rent numbers for the recipes in the SMS and voice sections. Let's learn how to work with Twilio APIs in this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. On your computer, open your favorite browser and browse to https://www.twilio.com/try-twilio:

  2. Once you create an account, log in to it and add a few funds from the Billing page that is available as a dropdown option on your account dashboard. You can also directly browse to the Billing page at https://www.twilio.com/user/billing if you're already logged in...