megeek/schedule-texts-from-txt

Schedule iMessage texts from .txt files.

schedule-texts-from-txt

Schedule iMessage texts from .txt files from your Mac.

Send your first text

1. Clone this repo to your computer.
2. Verify there is a file in example_scheduled_texts folder named Text myself now.txt that has the word "Hello!" in the file body.
3. Open SETTINGS.txt and replace the number after myself=... to your phone number.
4. Open your terminal to this project directory and run these commands in order
   1. virtualenv venv
   2. source activate.sh
   3. pip install -r requirements.txt
   4. python send_scheduled_messages.py
5. ✅ If everything went well, you should receive an iMessage text that says "Hello!" from yourself

How it works

The script parses the filename, Text {person} {datetime}.txt, to determine who and when to send the text message.

1. The first word in the filename must be "Text."
2. The second word, person must be the persons identifier. This is set in SETTINGS.txt, e.g., bob=1234567890 would set bob's phone number to 1234567890
3. Everything following the name, before the .txt, is considered the datetime. Many formats may work for the datetime, but this is the only one I have tested extensively: Month D, YYYY HH:MM(AM|PM), for example March 9, 2024 7:25AM. You can also use the keyword now as a datetime to send one immediately.

Help & Feedback

Please create a GitHub issue if you have feedback or need help. Thanks!

Made by Reid JS on March 9, 2024