Steven Lott - Python for Secret Agents - Second Edition [2015, PDF/EPUB/MOBI, ENG]

Python for Secret Agents - Second Edition

Год издания: 2015
Автор: Steven Lott
Жанр или тематика: Программирование

Издательство: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781785283406
Язык: Английский

Формат: PDF/EPUB/MOBI
Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 180

Описание: Python is easy to learn and extensible programming language that allows any manner of secret agent to work with a variety of data. Agents from beginners to seasoned veterans will benefit from Python's simplicity and sophistication. The standard library provides numerous packages that move beyond simple beginner missions. The Python ecosystem of related packages and libraries supports deep information processing.

This book will guide you through the process of upgrading your Python-based toolset for intelligence gathering, analysis, and communication. You'll explore the ways Python is used to analyze web logs to discover the trails of activities that can be found in web and database servers. We'll also look at how we can use Python to discover details of the social network by looking at the data available from social networking websites.

Finally, you'll see how to extract history from PDF files, which opens up new sources of data, and you’ll learn about the ways you can gather data using an Arduino-based sensor device.

What You Will Learn

- Upgrade Python to the latest version and discover its latest and greatest tools
- Use Python libraries to extract data from log files that are designed more for people to read than for automated analysis
- Summarize log files and extract meaningful information
- Gather data from social networking sites and leverage your experience of analyzing log files to summarize the data you find
- Extract text and images from social networking sites
- Parse the complex and confusing data structures in a PDF file to extract meaningful text that we can analyze
- Connect small, intelligent devices to our computer to use them as remote sensors
- Use Python to analyze measurements from sensors to calibrate them and use sensors efficiently