nityeshaga / innovaccer-spoiler-alert

A spoiler alert system for the Innovaccer Summer Hacker Camp assignment

Spoiler-alert-system

A spoiler alert system for the Innovaccer Summer Hacker Camp assignment

This simple Python script allows you to get information about the next latest episode of your favourite TV series via email.

How to use:

1. First you will need to store the info for your MySQL database in the db_login.json file.
   You need to replace localhost with your host, user with your username and ubuntu97 with your own password.

2. Install all the packages mentioned in the requirements.txt file using pip.

3. Next, you will need to populate the database by running
   python3 spoiler_alert.py --update
   Enter the email addresses along with the corresponding list of TV series. When you are done press Enter twice.

4. Finally, in order to send email alerts to the above entered email-id's, run the script using --alert option like this
   python3 spoiler_alert.py --alert This will ask you to login to the email-id that will be used to send the emails. So, enter your email address and password (make sure that you allow less secure apps on your email otherwise Python won't be able to login to your email account.

That's it!

All the recepients will now receive an email telling them about the air date of the next episode of their favourite TV series.