e-post

A tool for extracting new postal data from Deutsche Post E-Post Solutions WebTransfer.

It also allows to send all new files to a Slack channel automatically.

How to use

This tool is available as a Docker image and therefore includes all dependencies like python packages, as well as Chrome and chromedriver for browser emulation.

Create a directory which will contain the configuration or data of e-post. For example create the directory ~/e-post.

Create a docker-compose.yml file containing the configuration. You need to configure the environment variables.

services:
  e-post:
    image: ghcr.io/timephy/e-post:main
    container_name: e-post
    volumes:
      - "./files/:/app/files"
    environment:
      - USERNAME=
      - PASSWORD=
      - SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=
      - SLACK_CHANNEL=

You can set up cron to run this tool periodically by running crontab -e and including the following job:

0 6,9,12,15,18,21 * * * /usr/local/bin/docker-compose -f ~/e-post/docker-compose.yml up --force-recreate >> ~/e-post/output.log 2>&1

Slack App

Create a slack app and give it files:read and files:write permissions. Add the app to your slack workspace and add the bot/app to the channel in question. Lastly include the oauth token and channel_id in the environment variables.

Update

To update to the latest version simply pull the newest docker image by running:

docker pull ghcr.io/timephy/e-post:main

When cron schedules the next job, the new version will be executed.