Re: Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-04-25, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP. > > Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure" > authentication. Otherwise you are required to set up a special, >

Re: Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-25 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP. Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure" authentication. Otherwise you are required to set up a special, application-specific password.

Re: Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-04-24, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 04/24/2016 12:58 PM, CM wrote: > >> 1. INPUT: What's the best way to scrape an email like this? The >>email is to a Gmail account, and the content shows up in the >>email as a series of basically 6x7 tables (HTML?), one table

Re: Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/24/2016 12:58 PM, CM wrote: > 1. INPUT: What's the best way to scrape an email like this? The > email is to a Gmail account, and the content shows up in the email as > a series of basically 6x7 tables (HTML?), one table per PO > number/task. I know if the freelancer were to copy and paste

Re: Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-24 Thread Friedrich Rentsch
On 04/24/2016 08:58 PM, CM wrote: I would like to write a Pythons script to automate a tedious process and could use some advice. The source content will be an email that has 5-10 PO (purchase order) numbers and information for freelance work done. The target content will be an invoice.

Scraping email to make invoice

2016-04-24 Thread CM
I would like to write a Pythons script to automate a tedious process and could use some advice. The source content will be an email that has 5-10 PO (purchase order) numbers and information for freelance work done. The target content will be an invoice. (There will be an email like this every