Data Mail

What

This script checks values on a webpage and sends it to your mail

It is written in Python 3

Why

I needed to check when Apple TAEG credit drops to 0.
Now, I also use it to check if a new version of a software is out.
Thanks to a cron, I can schedule it to be launched every day.

Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

OR

pip install requests

How

• Rename data_mail.config.spec into data_mail.config

• Fill [mail] stanza with your mail information

• Then you can have multiple stanza in data sections for multiple sites

  • [name_1]: the name of the stanza. Will be passed as parameter for the script
  • sent_from: the mail of the sender
  • sent_to: the mail of the receiver
  • data_url: the url of the webpage to check
  • data_regex: the regex to isolate the value to retrieve
  • message_prefix: a message that will be written before the value
  • last_value: optional. If set, mail will be sent only if new value is different from last value. Remove variable if you do not want it

--help

usage: data_mail.py [-h] data_name

Check data on a web page and send it by mail

positional arguments:
  data_name   name of the section to use

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Exemple

[apple_taeg]
sent_from = john.doe@gmail.com
sent_to = john.doe@gmail.com
data_url = https://www.apple.com/fr/shop/browse/finance/loan
data_regex = <li>TAEG.*:\s*(.*?)<\/li>
message_prefix = Apple TAEG:
last_value =

Call the script with the following command:

python3 data_mail.py apple_taeg