seminar-message-manager 0.0.3

A package to automate message generation and sending for seminars from a csv file

Seminar Message Manager

A Python manager for automatically generating and sending mails and Zulip messages to announce upcoming seminars, using user-tunable html and markdown templates.

📦 Installation

Use pip to install the package:

pip install seminar-message-manager

💻 Usage

smm date [--seminar_csv csv_file.csv --zulip_json zulip.json --mail_json mail.json --template_mail template.html --template_zulip template.md (--send_mail | -sm) (--send_zulip | -sz) (--send | -s)]

Argument details

• seminar_csv .csv file that describes the seminar's events following a specific template:

  date      ; location; first_name; last_name; work_name           ; work_link
  yyyy-mm-dd; room    ; John      ; Doe      ; My beautiful article; https://article-link.com
  

  By default, the package will look for seminar.csv in the root directory.

• date the date (yyyy-mm-dd) used to select the relevant information from the csv.

• zulip_json .json file that describes the information needed by the Zulip bot:

  {
    "config_file": "zuliprc", // API file of the bot
    "bot_email"  : "[e-mail]",
    "channel"    : "Seminars",
    "topic"      : "Upcomming seminar",
    "old_topic"  : "Past seminars" // Topic in {channel} where past bot messages are moved
  }
  

  By default, the package will look for zulip.json in the root directory.

• mail_json.json file that described the mail information

  {
    "user"                   : "[e-mail]",
    "password"               : "123456789",
    "smtp_server_domain_name": "smtp.mail.com",
    "port"                   : 587,
    "to"                     : ["[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"],
    "subject"                : "Upcoming seminar"
  }
  

  By default, the package will look for mail.json in the root directory.

• template_mail .html file that constitute the body of the mail (example). Some specific strings, indicated by {}, will be replaced by the package, using the corresponding csv line:

  • {date}
  • {room}
  • {first_name}
  • {last_name}
  • {work_name}
  • {work_link} By default, the package will look for announcement.html in the ./templates/mail directory.

• template_zulip .md file, similar to html file, see example By default, the package will look for announcement.md in the ./templates/zulip directory.

• --send_mail or -sm if used, send mails to the relevant mailing list.

• --send_zulip or -sz if used, send messaged to the relevant Zulip topic.

• --sendor -s if used, send messaged to the relevant Zulip topic and mails.

⚖️ License

Distributed under the GNU GPL 3.0 License.