joaonmatos / secret-santa

Secret Santa

Quickly draw names from secret santa and send emails telling people about their own.

Running

• Install Deno. The latest version should work, but this is as of 2022-11-25 and I am using v1.28.1.
• Install the AWS CLI. You should configure a profile called SecretSanta, that has enough IAM permissions to send emails with Amazon SES. Or change the loaded profile to something else you want.
• Change the email template and the origin email address to whatever you want, and whatever email address you control.
• Add a data.json file in the root of the directory and specify your input there: people key has people's names and emails, and pools has the people that can't gift each other. Something like the following:

{
  "people": [
    { "name": "Alice", "email": "[e-mail]" },
    { "name": "Bob", "email": "[e-mail]" },
    { "name": "Cathrine", "email": "[e-mail]" },
    { "name": "Mike", "email": "[e-mail]" },
    { "name": "Hannah", "email": "[e-mail]" }
  ],
  "pools": [
    ["Alice", "Cathrine"],
    ["Bob"],
    ["Mike"],
    ["Hannah"]
  ]
}

Run with deno run --allow-env --allow-read --allow-net main.ts

Notes

• If an assignment is impossible, such as if there are only two pools and three participants, you're gonna get stuck on an infinite loop.
• SES is gonna blow up if you don't have prod access or try to send through my email address