Python Google Alerts
The google-alerts Python module provides an abstract interface for the Google Alerts service. Google does not provide an official API for this service, so interactions are done through web scripting.
WARNING: Your account password will be obfuscated and saved on the file system. Additionally, post-authentication, a session cookie will also be saved. These can be stolen and re-used to compromise your account. As a best practice, register a new email to manage alerts.
For detailed explanations of the library, please see the wiki.
Quick Start
Install the library:
pip install google-alerts or python setup.py install
Install all dependencies from requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
Save your configuration:
google-alerts setup --email <your.mail@foo.com> --password 'password'
Seed your session (driver download, http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads, do NOT use the pip package as the version is old):
google-alerts seed --driver /tmp/chromedriver --timeout 60
Create a monitor:
google-alerts create --term "hello world" --delivery 'rss' --frequency 'realtime'
List monitors:
google-alerts list
Delete a monitor:
google-alerts delete --id '89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US'
Sample Code
This sample code shows some of the range of functionality within the module:
from google_alerts import GoogleAlerts
# Create an instance
ga = GoogleAlerts('your.email@gmail.com', '**password**')
# Authenticate your user
ga.authenticate()
# List configured monitors
ga.list()
# Add a new monitor
ga.create("Hello World", {'delivery': 'RSS'})
# Modify an existing monitor
ga.modify("89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US", {'delivery': 'RSS', 'monitor_match': 'ALL'})
# Delete a monitor
ga.delete("89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US")
Example Output
Below is an example monitor:
[{
"term": "hello world",
"user_id": "09738342945634096720",
"language": "en",
"monitor_id": "89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US",
"region": "US",
"rss_link": "https://google.com/alerts/feeds/09738342945634096720/9663349274289663466",
"delivery": "RSS",
"match_type": "BEST"
}]
Features
Add new monitors (RSS or Mail)
Modify existing monitors
Delete monitors by ID or term
List all monitors with details
Changelog
05-09-20
Bugfix: Adjusted the seeding process to use Stackoverflow in order to handle initial Google authentication to bypass bot checks
11-20-19
Change: Captured all results by default instead of best
07-15-19
Bugfix: Handle issues in exception definition
Bugfix: Provide alert_frequency with a default option if not supplied
07-14-19
Change: Wrap state parsing functions and have them raise exception on failures
Bugfix: Account for state changed pushed by Google, breaking all processing
05-23-19
Feature: Add a new command line argument to allow a user to specify a seed timeout time
11-11-18
Feature: Add a new command line argument to seed a session through the browser
Change: Added python version detection to the manage script as well
10-13-18
Feature: Detect when user changes between Python versions during setup
Bugfix: Setup process appears to finally be bug-free, screw python2 support
07-10-18
Feature: Added the ability to set the frequency when creating alerts
Bugfix: Fixed frequency settings when using the mail delivery method
05-30-18
Change: Explicitly detect when a CAPTCHA is being thrown
05-28-18
Feature: Take advantage of the config file concept inside of the class
Feature: Authenticate users with a session file if it’s available
Change: Tell Chrome to avoid using Javascript so we get the old form
05-25-18
Change: Added headers to all calls to look like less of a bot
Bugfix: Wrapped a problem area when inspecting the forms in a page
Bugfix: Handled setup error for Python3
04-29-18
Feature: Allow users to setup exact match queries
Change: Added support for Python3
Bugfix: Removed extra calls causing an error in the decrypt process
04-26-18
Feature: Added a command line utility to the code for easy testing
Bugfix: Removed clobbering error inside of delete routine
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