Thanks for using my script! It is fulfilling to know that I can make someone else's life easier with this automation script
Note that it is generally good practice to run this script in a virtual environment although you don't have to. There are many resources you can find online as to why it is better to do so
Directions: Make sure that you have a chrome driver installed and get its path. You can find them in this link: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads Run these in terminal (assuming you're already in the directory containing FlightScraper.py)
python -m venv [VirtualEnvironmentName](run this only once if you dont have one in the directory already)[VirtualEnvironmentName]\Scripts\activate.bat(execute this line)- make sure you have all the dependencies you need in this virtual environment by typing
pip install -r requirements.txt python FlightScraper.py
The secrets.py module that I have imported is just my own personal information that I don't want to show to the public!
What I can show is the boilerplate, so you can add your own (just don't forget to add secrets.py to your gitignore so you don't share information such as your git hub password to the public)
secrets.py boilerplate
import collections
import smtplib, ssl
from email.message import EmailMessage
class Secrets:
CHROME_DRIVER_PATH=[YourChromeDriverPath]
senderEmail=[The email you want to use to send to one or more other emails (should be a dummy email as you will have to "Allow less secure apps" for the senderEmail)]
senderEmailPassword=[senderEmail's password]
receiverEmails=[Should be a list of emails you want to send the message to]
EmailCredentials = collections.namedtuple("EmailCredentials", ['password', 'sender', 'recipients'])
cities =\
{
START_CITY_NAME: START_CITY_ACRONYM, # you can find the appropriate acronyms thru the kayak flights website
DESTINATION_CITY_NAME: DESTINATION_CITY_ACRONYM, # you can find the appropriate acronyms thru the kayak flights website
}
# region sendEmail(filePath:str, fileName:str, email:namedtuple, subject:str, msg:str)
@staticmethod
def sendEmail(filePath: str, fileName: str, email, subject:str, msg:str):
'''
sends an email out with the passed in message. Make sure the sender's email has "Less secure app access" turned on!!!
'''
# out-going email port
port = 465 # For SSL
smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com"
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtp_server, port, context=context) as server:
try:
server.login(email.sender, email.password)
for recipient in email.recipients:
# must create a new EmailMessage object for every recipient
message = EmailMessage()
message['From'] = email.sender
message['To'] = recipient
message['Subject'] = subject
message.set_content(msg)
if filePath: # if you don't have any files to attach to the email, then just pass in an empty string or None for the filePath parameter when calling this function
with open(filePath, 'rb') as f:
fileData = f.read()
message.add_attachment(fileData, maintype="application", subtype="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet", filename=fileName)
server.send_message(message)
print('email sent!')
except Exception as e:
print(e)
print("could not login or send the mail.")
For an example of the sendEmail function, check FlightScraper.py
# endregion