The beginning of my journey

                             **_Hello World._**

You will not know me, as I'm just starting this exciting journey. I've taken it upon myself to begin writing here as a new hobby to level my writing skills ( English is not my first language )

and I hope that I can provide something of value to you, whether you're a beginner like me or an expert.

and if you find anything that can help, please do share.

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let's just say that my name is 5enox, I have some experience with Python and web scraping/automation, which started as a simple hobby and developed into a freelance job, I had reached the stage where I earned the TOP RATED badge on Upwork ( though I had lost it due to a hiatus).

I'm always interested in learning about new and complicated things which I love, when I was about a year younger I started in game development with #unity and #blender, but I ultimately still believe that programming is just a tool for me to reach my goals.

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anyways, enough introduction

I started just like anyone willing to get into web scraping, I had already learned Python and was looking to make some money online, did some simple research at the time and found out that web scraping and automation dominated the Upwork market at the time, so naturally I decided to get into it.

I started with bs4 then faced some problems, as most websites used js rendering, then moved on to learning XML and XPath which I found very convenient at the time ( later found out about this, which helped)

my first job, which was to maintain a Linux server with its 24/7 running codebase, was fairly easy for me, as I do use Arch btw.

the code was working, but it was extremely inefficient, so I started to further develop my skills working with git, threading, and OOP code.

the codebase used corn jobs to run different scrapers for 4 sites to then go on to upload the data to an airtable sheet.

so this was my first time writing a post like this, and I hope we can learn from each other.

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next, bs4, XPath, and basic data manipulation

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