pywisher is a python scripts, which uses gmail to read records and send birthday wishes to all your friends, it's scheduled to run every day at 00:01 IST using github actions.
For using this script, you require:
- Github Account.
- Gmail Account.
- Birthday record (in csv, as given in below image).
If you have the requirements completed, follow the steps below:
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Go to this link.
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On the left hand side, click on security.
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Under Signing in to Google click App passwords.(It will be visible only, if you have 2FA on)
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In the next screen, under Select app option select Other, and type your app name as pywisher.
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Click done, and in the next screen, you will get your pass code.
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- Using your gmail account, send yourself an email keeping birthday record as attchment, and keep a unique subject. (This unique subject will be used by the code to read the email from the inbox.)
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Fork this project.
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Go to setting of your pywisher repository.
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On the left hand panel, go to secrets under security section, and click actions.
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Now, create new secrets by clicking New repository secret. You have to create 4 secrets having same name as given in the actions.yml file.
EMAIL - your-github-email@email.com KEY_ID - your-gmail-for-reading-and-writing@gmail.com KEY_SECRET - app password you create in the Gmail ***setup section***. SEARCH_KEY - unique subject for the email you sent in ***Birthday record setup***
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