This is a set of examples of email types that can be sent with python and github actions using a gmail account. Potential use cases are:
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schedule a monthly report to be created and sent using python
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send yourself an email when a github action is finished containing output of the run
To set up a Gmail address for testing your code, do the following:
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Turn Allow less secure apps to ON. Be aware that this makes it easier for others to gain access to your account.
This github action will send an email everyday at 5am UTC. If you need it to be every month or whatever else check out https://crontab.guru/examples.html for more examples.
name: send email
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 5 * * *"
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Set up Python
uses: actions/setup-python@v2
with:
python-version: 3.7
- name: Install dependencies and send email
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install pipenv
pipenv install
pipenv run python src/send_email.py
import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.header import Header
sender_email = "[email protected]"
receiver_email = "[email protected]"
password = "password"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = sender_email
msg['To'] = receiver_email
msg['Subject'] = Header('Some Title', 'utf-8').encode()
body = 'Hello World!'
msg_content = MIMEText(body, 'plain', 'utf-8')
msg.attach(msg_content)
# Create secure connection with server and send email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, msg.as_string())import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.header import Header
sender_email = "[email protected]"
receiver_email = "[email protected]"
password = "password"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = sender_email
msg['To'] = receiver_email
msg['Subject'] = Header('Some Title', 'utf-8').encode()
html = """\
<html>
<body>
<p>Hi,<br>
How are you?<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
msg_content = MIMEText(html, 'html')
msg.attach(msg_content)
# Create secure connection with server and send email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, msg.as_string())import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.header import Header
sender_email = "[email protected]"
receiver_email = "[email protected]"
password = "password"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = sender_email
msg['To'] = receiver_email
msg['Subject'] = Header('Daily Dose of Italian', 'utf-8').encode()
body = 'Hello World!'
msg_content = MIMEText(body, 'plain', 'utf-8')
msg.attach(msg_content)
with open('your_image.png', 'rb') as f:
# set attachment mime and file name, the image type is png
mime = MIMEBase('image', 'png', filename='img1.png')
# add required header data:
mime.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename='img1.png')
mime.add_header('X-Attachment-Id', '0')
mime.add_header('Content-ID', '<0>')
# read attachment file content into the MIMEBase object
mime.set_payload(f.read())
# encode with base64
encoders.encode_base64(mime)
# add MIMEBase object to MIMEMultipart object
msg.attach(mime)
# Create secure connection with server and send email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, msg.as_string())import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.header import Header
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("file.csv")
html_table = df.to_html()
sender_email = "[email protected]"
receiver_email = "[email protected]"
password = "password"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = sender_email
msg['To'] = receiver_email
msg['Subject'] = Header('Some Title', 'utf-8').encode()
html_message = f"""
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
{html_table}
</body>
</html>
"""
msg_content = MIMEText(html_message, 'html')
msg.attach(msg_content)
# Create secure connection with server and send email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, msg.as_string())