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Birthday Greeter

Scheduled birthday greeting script. Made using PyMongo, smtplib and PIL.

Features

  1. Automated emailing of wishes.
    • Scheduled delivery at 12:00 AM.
    • Random birthday wishes.
    • Current age calculation.
  2. Birthday card generation using Pillow.
    • Random birthday card backgrounds.
    • Send as an attachment with emails.
  3. MongoDB as database.
    • Add or remove birthdays.
    • Show upcoming birthdays.
    • List every birthday.

Configuration

Firstly, rename .env.example to .env.

Configure these environment variables:

GMUSER = [email protected]

GMPASS = password

HOST = smtp.gmail.com

PORT = 587

MONGO_URL = mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@abcdcluster.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority

DB_NAME = your_mongodb_database_name

COLLECTION_NAME = your_mongodb_database_collection_name

Install required modules by doing pip install -r requirements.txt in terminal.

To run, simply do python main.py.

To-do

  • Input timeout

  • Custom greetings

  • Print if there are no upcoming birthdays