# Getting Started With Log File Search

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/getting-started-with-log-file-search/33978>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** python, python-for-testers-intro\
**Created:** [30 January 2020 17:10 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/getting-started-with-log-file-search/33978 "2020-01-30T17:10:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![davewesterveld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/davewesterveld/32/283_2.png) [@davewesterveld](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/davewesterveld)\
**Post date:** [30 January 2020 17:10 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/getting-started-with-log-file-search/33978/1 "2020-01-30T17:10:49Z")

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**Time:** 1-2 minutes

**Purpose:** Give you files that you can use to follow along with the video examples

**Introduction:** The log file parsing activity will be introduced over several videos and it would be very helpful to follow along. The files for this activity can be found on [github](https://github.com/djwester/pythonfortesters). In particular you will want the [logfile.txt](https://github.com/djwester/pythonfortesters/blob/master/logfile.txt) file which contains the data that we will be searching through