ItsVipra / scrape_apply

Scrapes email addresses from a specific website and then sends a specified email to all of them

scrape-apply

Scrape-apply is a small utility I wrote in order to send the same email to a bunch of companies, who's E-Mail addresses had to be retrieved from a dynamic website.

As to protect my privacy and said companies from spam, the website has not been included in the source and must instead be provided as an argument.

Usage

Scrape-apply consists of two commands; scrape and apply. For usage info consult the help commands:

scrape_apply --help

Usage: scrape_apply <COMMAND>

Commands:
  scrape  scrapes the specified URL
  apply   sends emails to the specified addresses
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

scrape_apply scrape --help

scrapes the specified URL

Usage: scrape_apply scrape [OPTIONS] <URL>

Arguments:
  <URL>  url to scrape from

Options:
  -o, --output-path <OUTPUT_PATH>  location to save scraped data to [default: ./contact_data.csv]
  -h, --help                       Print help

scrape_apply apply --help

sends emails to the specified addresses

Usage: scrape_apply apply --input-path <INPUT_PATH> --url <URL> --user <USER> --pass <PASS> <MESSAGE>

Arguments:
  <MESSAGE>  .md file with message contents

Options:
  -i, --input-path <INPUT_PATH>  location of input file
      --url <URL>                SMTP server URL
  -u, --user <USER>              SMTP user
  -p, --pass <PASS>              SMTP password
  -h, --help                     Print help