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