Script that checks an email account for messages and can trigger actions according to instructions in these messages.
I have plenty access to mail and Google, but I can't browse Internet. I usually receive a bunch of links that I'm unable to open. I can search terms on Google, but I can't browse the Google results, this was the reason to create a script that does the following:
This script can be executed periodically in a server/PC, it will check an email account and open the older of all the unread messages, extract the commands on it and trigger an action.
Right now it can only download a file or a web page, there is a lot to do.
Even though right now this script works, it's in an early stage since I have some kind of recursive problem, I can't browse Internet to learn more python and then code this script, and I do not know enough python to code this script and then have access to Internet pages.
It reads the subject of the message and searches for two parameters, the first is the command and the second is the URL.
downloadfile = Download the file, compress it in a zip file and send it via email.
downloadpage = Download the page, compress it in a zip file and send it via email.
Meaning that if the subject is downloadfile http://www.cadaver.me/presentation.svg, it will download the file, will zip it and send it to the sender.
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Download "full" sites recursively.
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Read body of messages so it can receive multiple instructions in the same message.
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Open all unread messages on a single execution.