krz/daily-poem

 1# Fetch a random poem from PoetryDB and mail it.
 2import smtplib
 3from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 4
 5import requests
 6
 7POETRY_URL = "https://poetrydb.org/random"
 8SMTP_SERVER = "localhost"
 9
10# Fill these in before running.
11SENDER_EMAIL = ""
12RECIPIENT_EMAILS = ""
13
14
15def fetch_poem(url=POETRY_URL):
16    """Return (title, author, line_count, body) for a random poem."""
17    json_data = requests.get(url, timeout=30).json()
18    poem = json_data[0]
19    lines = ""
20    for line in poem["lines"]:
21        lines = lines + line + "\n"
22    return poem["title"], poem["author"], poem["linecount"], lines
23
24
25def build_message(title, author, line_count, lines, sender, recipient):
26    """Return a plaintext MIMEText message for one poem."""
27    msg = MIMEText(title + "\n" + author + "\n\n" + lines)
28    msg["Subject"] = "Your Daily Poem (" + line_count + " lines)"
29    msg["From"] = sender
30    msg["To"] = recipient
31    return msg
32
33
34def main():
35    title, author, line_count, lines = fetch_poem()
36    msg = build_message(
37        title, author, line_count, lines, SENDER_EMAIL, RECIPIENT_EMAILS
38    )
39
40    # Send via the local SMTP server, without the envelope header.
41    s = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER)
42    s.sendmail(SENDER_EMAIL, [RECIPIENT_EMAILS], msg.as_string())
43    s.quit()
44
45
46if __name__ == "__main__":
47    main()