Top Automation Scripts Every Python Developer Needs in 2026

import os, shutil

def organize_folder(path):
    for file in os.listdir(path):
        if file.endswith(".pdf"):
            shutil.move(os.path.join(path, file), os.path.join(path, "PDFs"))
        elif file.endswith(".jpg"):
            shutil.move(os.path.join(path, file), os.path.join(path, "Images"))

organize_folder("/Users/you/Downloads")

import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

def send_email(to, subject, body):
    msg = MIMEText(body)
    msg['From'] = "you@gmail.com"
    msg['To'] = to
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465) as server:
        server.login("you@gmail.com", "password")
        server.sendmail("you@gmail.com", to, msg.as_string())

send_email("friend@example.com", "Daily Update", "Here’s your automation report!")

import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id="id", client_secret="secret", user_agent="script")
for post in reddit.subreddit("Python").hot(limit=3):
    print(post.title, post.url)

import os, shutil

def organize_folder(path):
    for file in os.listdir(path):
        if file.endswith(".pdf"):
            shutil.move(os.path.join(path, file), os.path.join(path, "PDFs"))
        elif file.endswith(".jpg"):
            shutil.move(os.path.join(path, file), os.path.join(path, "Images"))

organize_folder("/Users/you/Downloads")

import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

def send_email(to, subject, body):
    msg = MIMEText(body)
    msg['From'] = "you@gmail.com"
    msg['To'] = to
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465) as server:
        server.login("you@gmail.com", "password")
        server.sendmail("you@gmail.com", to, msg.as_string())

send_email("friend@example.com", "Daily Update", "Here’s your automation report!")

import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id="id", client_secret="secret", user_agent="script")

for post in reddit.subreddit("Python").hot(limit=3):
    print(post.title, post.url)

import tweepy

client = tweepy.Client(consumer_key="key",
                       consumer_secret="secret",
                       access_token="token",
                       access_token_secret="token_secret")

client.create_tweet(text="Hello from Python automation 🚀")

import pdfkit

html = "<h1>John Doe</h1><p>Python Developer</p>"
pdfkit.from_string(html, "resume.pdf")

import requests, time

def check_api(url):
    try:
        res = requests.get(url)
        print(url, res.status_code)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error:", e)

while True:
    check_api("https://api.github.com")
    time.sleep(60)

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/"
res = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")

titles = [a.text for a in soup.select(".titleline a")]
pd.DataFrame(titles, columns=["Headline"]).to_csv("hn.csv", index=False)

from slack_sdk import WebClient
import schedule, time

client = WebClient(token="slack-token")

def send_standup():
    client.chat_postMessage(channel="#general", text="Daily standup: What did you do today?")

schedule.every().day.at("10:00").do(send_standup)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(60)

import requests, time

while True:
    res = requests.get("https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/BTC.json")
    price = res.json()["bpi"]["USD"]["rate"]
    print("BTC Price:", price)
    time.sleep(60)

pip install black flake8 pylint
black .
flake8 .
pylint your_script.py

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)

file = drive.CreateFile({'title': 'backup.txt'})
file.SetContentFile('local.txt')
file.Upload()

from github import Github
from notion_client import Client

g = Github("github-token")
repo = g.get_repo("owner/repo")
issues = repo.get_issues(state="open")

notion = Client(auth="notion-token")

for issue in issues:
    notion.pages.create(
        parent={"database_id": "db_id"},
        properties={"Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": issue.title}}]}}
    )

import yfinance as yf
import smtplib

stocks = ["AAPL", "TSLA", "MSFT"]

summary = ""
for s in stocks:
    data = yf.Ticker(s)
    price = data.history(period="1d")["Close"].iloc[-1]
    summary += f"{s}: {price}\n"

server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465)
server.login("you@gmail.com", "password")
server.sendmail("you@gmail.com", "me@gmail.com", summary)
server.quit()

import cv2, pytesseract

img = cv2.imread("screenshot.png")
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(api_key="key")

def summarize(text):
    res = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": f"Summarize: {text}"}]
    )
    return res.choices[0].message.content

print(summarize("Long article about Python automation..."))