One forgets to send birthday wishes to friends many times. At such times an automatic birthday wisher comes handy. An automatic birthday wisher via email makes one's life easy. It will send the birthday wishes to friends via email automatically via a server and using an excel sheet to store the data of friends and their birthdays along with email id. It'll send the wishes to friends for all the upcoming years untill we stop the server.
In order to run this script, You just need the following modules:
- Pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language.
pip install pandas- Datetime is a module used for Encapsulation of date/time values.
pip install DateTime- smtplib module defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon.
- Assign the Gmail Id of sender to the GMAIL_ID variable in line 10 of "Auto B'Day Wisher.py" file. (e.g. 'xyz@gmail.com')
- Similar to first step assign the Gmail password of sender to the GMAIL_PSWD variable in line 11 of "Auto B'Day Wisher.py" file. (e.g. '1234')
- In "data.xlsx" file insert the name of the receiver in second column under Name. Similarly update the Birthday field with the birth date of receiver in the given format*("%dd-%mm-%YYYY")*. Update the Dailogue field with a short message you want to send and the Email field with the email of the receiver.
- Make sure to give permission to your google account from which you're sending email to Allow less secure apps. Just turn this "ON" from here.
- Run the command
python "Auto B'Day Wisher.py"