Randomly group people together to get a meal together, and send an email to everyone to tell them what their group is!
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As described here, set up a Google Cloud project, enable the Gmail API, and create credentials for a desktop application. Store the credentials JSON file as
client_secret.json
in your working directory as you runMealBot.py
. (Alternatively, just get a JSON file directly from Alex.) -
You will also need to use pip to install a couple of modules that may not already be installed on your machine:
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
pip install --upgrade oauth2client
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Set up
PersonList.txt
. This is a tab-delimited csv file with the columns Name and Email. (Delimiting it by tabs means that you can copy-paste directly from a Google sheet into a text file, and it will work.) MealBot will randomly group these people together. -
Set up
Message.txt
. This is the body of the email that will be sent to each person inPersonList.txt
. The string{GroupList}
must appear exactly once in the file; it will be replaced with the list of people that were randomly grouped together. -
Run
MealBot.py
. There are a number of options (runMealBot.py -h
to see them), but if you don't change any file names then they probably won't be needed.