Annoying Flatmate Alerts

annoying_flatmate_alerts.py

# Author: Gireesh Bogu
# Location: Barcelona
# Time: Dec 21, 2016

# Aim-1 [Accomplished]: Sending Flat Rental And Utilities Bills To My Forgetful Flatmate Every First Day Of The Month :/
# Aim-2 [Pending]: Calculating bills from the bank account automatically (This is tricky because of two reasons: (1) probably bank information is hard to access and (2) bills timing on bank statemenet often do not match with the actual monthly bills)
# Aim-3 [Pending]: Aim-1 is using gmail but it is nice to extend this to Facebook as she checks it more often than gmail ;)

# Add the below usage code to crontab (open it using this command: crontab -e)
# Usage: * 09 1 * * /fullpath/annoyingFlatmateAlerts.py (sends email at 9 A.M at every first day of the month)
# Do not forget to make the script executable before you add to crontab: chmod +x annoyingFlatmateAlerts.py


#!/usr/bin/env python

# Helps sending emails
import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

# Helps setting date and time for alerts
import datetime

# your and your flatmate emails
fromaddr = "gireeshkbogu@gmail.com"
toaddr = "annoying_flatmate@gmail.com"

# Flat Rent alerts
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "FLAT RENT - 310 Euros"
body = "IT'S TIME TO PAY MY DEAR FLATMATE :) :) :)"
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "password")
flat_rent = msg.as_string()

# Flat Utilities alerts
msg1 = MIMEMultipart()
msg1['From'] = fromaddr
msg1['To'] = toaddr
msg1['Subject'] = "UTILITY BILLS - 67 Euros"
body = "IT'S TIME TO PAY MY DEAR FLATMATE :) :) :)"
msg1.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "password")
utility_bills = msg1.as_string()

# Sending alerts
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, flat_rent)
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, utility_bills)

server.quit()


# acknowledgements:
# http://naelshiab.com/tutorial-send-email-python/ [sending emails]
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19874784/cron-job-to-run-every-1st-day-of-the-month
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4460262/running-a-python-script-with-cron
# * * * * * cmd_to_run (every minute, every hour, every day, every month, any day of week, and then the command)

# https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fbchat/

Just an example: Where I sent the alterts to my own email and facebook accounts 🥇

Facebook test version ...
Install fbchat before implementing this
Source: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fbchat/

# Helps sending facebook messages
import fbchat

# My facebook ids
client = fbchat.Client("gireesh.bogu", "password")
# Sending a Message to a friends facebook id
friends = client.getUsers("gireeshkbogu")  # return a list of names
friend = friends[0]
sent = client.send(friend.uid, "Bills time :) ")