Stackoverflow Job Alert

stackoverflow_job_alert.py

"""This module sends a stack overflow job alert email.
It can be scheduled with python sched library, cron, PaaS providers such as
pythonanywhere or heroku, or anything with similar functionality
"""
import smtplib
from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

import feedparser


def stack_overflow_jobs(feeds, days_ago):
    """Return a string of the urls of the jobs separated by a newline in all 
    the given stackoverflow.com RSS job searches within the given time frame
    """
    jobs = ''
    for feed in feeds:
        for entry in feedparser.parse(feed).entries:
            pub = datetime.strptime(entry.published[5:-2], '%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S')
            if datetime.utcnow() - pub < timedelta(days=int(days_ago)):
                jobs += entry.link + '\n'
    return jobs


def send_gmail(sender, password, recipient, message):
    """Sends an email using GMail, the GMail settings may need to be adjusted
    to allow for python to send mail
    """
    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = sender
    msg['To'] = recipient
    msg['Subject'] = str(date.today()) + ' Jobs'
    msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))
    server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.ehlo()
    server.login(sender, password)
    text = msg.as_string()
    server.sendmail(sender, recipient, text)
    server.close()


def job_alert(feeds, days_ago, sender, password, recipient):
    """Sends the job alert"""
    send_gmail(sender, password, recipient, stack_overflow_jobs(feeds,
                                                                days_ago))

# Enter your own job searches here http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ and get
# the corresponding RSS feed
sample_feed_one = 'http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/sample_feed_one'
sample_feed_two = 'http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/sample_feed_two'
sample_feed_three = 'http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/sample_feed_three'

# Add your searches to the searches tuple
searches = (sample_feed_one,
            sample_feed_two,
            sample_feed_three)

# Provide the correct arguments to the job alert
job_alert(searches,
          1,
          'sender@gmail.com',
          'password',
          'recipient@anymail.com')