It logs into Thriftcart, generates a sales report for the previous month, scrapes the net sales value, then appends it into a CSV file with the date

I wanted the organization I work for to have easy access to our monthly sales figures as well as have an ongoing record of them. I wanted this done automatically.

• Install Python3
• Install mechanicalsoup pip install mechanicalsoup
• Add your Thriftcart URL, a username, and a password to main.py
  • I would suggest creating a username specifically for the script to use, and only give that username access to reports
• Redirect your sales file to a preferred directory.
• Use your favorite job scheduler to schedule main.py to run every month. I use anacron.
  • Alternatively, you can run main.py daily (maybe at startup). It will check to make sure it doesn't pull duplicate information, and it won't log into thriftcart if it doesn't need to do so.