gar-cron

github activity reminder cron - a script to send you reminders about your github commit activity. By default, it shoots a mail when there is no commit activity for 3 or more days. Read this DEV.to article to understand more about this tool.

Installation

pip install gar-cron

Usage

gar-cron

Configuration

When you run gar-cron for the first time, it will prompt you to set values in config.json along with its path. The values you need to set should be as follows (You need an smtp mail account to shoot emails, popular ones like GMail/Hotmail don't support this without oAuth, so register one at gmx.com or something):

{
	"github_username": "<your github username>",
	"alert_email": "<your email address>",
	"smtp_server":"<smtp server>",
	"smtp_email": "<smtp sending email>",
	"smtp_username": "<smtp username>",
	"smtp_password": "<smtp password>",
	"smtp_port": "<smtp port>"
}

Once you do this, run gar-cron again to ensure that it works. You may then configure it as a user cron job on linux by running crontab -e or on windows by scheduling it through the control panel.

For testing of email reminder, you may temporarily configure someone else's github_username in config.json who hasn't committed since a long time before running it.