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Python program to automate custom telegram chat forwarding

Aahnik Daw — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 03:44:19 +0000

Github Link tgcf

The content of this article has been removed, because they no longer match with the latest version. Check the github link above.

The ultimate tool to automate telegram message forwarding.

You can forward messages from a source chat to a destination chat. You can configure tgcf to do exactly what you need.

Top 14 Python Projects to learn GitHub Actions 🚀

Aahnik Daw — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:31:37 +0000

GitHub actions help developers to automate workflows. You can run tests, build and publish packages, check coverage, lint the codebase, and do tons of other cool stuff, using GitHub actions.

Some of the best and most popular python projects are using GitHub actions to automate their workflow.

GitHub actions are defined using a yaml file under the .github/workflows folder.

If you are completely new to GitHub actions, the official documentation can help: https://docs.github.com/en/actions

The best way to learn is by seeing examples. Below is the compilation of links to great GitHub action workflows.

(the order of listing is completely random)

poetry https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/tree/master/.github/workflows

fastapi https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/tree/master/.github/workflows

mkdocs https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/tree/master/.github/workflows

material mkdocs https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/tree/master/.github/workflows

typer https://github.com/tiangolo/typer/tree/master/.github/workflows

pytest https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/tree/main/.github/workflows

pylint https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/tree/master/.github/workflows

mypy https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/.github/workflows

requests https://github.com/psf/requests/tree/master/.github/workflows

aiohttp https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/tree/master/.github/workflows

black https://github.com/psf/black/tree/master/.github/workflows

python-youtube https://github.com/sns-sdks/python-youtube/tree/master/.github/workflows

pygithub https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub/tree/master/.github/workflows

coverage https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/tree/master/.github/workflows

I got a 50$ gift from dev.to, and here it is 😍

Aahnik Daw — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 03:15:21 +0000

I did not imagine that a simple article like sending an email would perform so well. Similar tutorials are in n no. of places on the internet. But still, people loved my article.

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Aahnik Daw ・ Apr 7 '21

#python #email #tutorial #discuss

This article 👆 reached the top seven for the week, and dev.to sent me this email.

I am excited to have this badge,

I thought, let me give the code back to the community. So here it is

dev-top7-acmewh ,

the first person to redeem it, gets 50$ worth of stuff from the shop.dev.to

If you have redeemed the code, please comment below, with what you bought. I would love to know.

Thank you for the love.

I am @aahnik on GitHub. If you are feeling bored, do check out my projects, and hit a few stars.

Thank you again.

I want to build a Python wrapper for an API, how should I approach it?

Aahnik Daw — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:01:45 +0000

I am planning to build a python wrapper around a rest API.

I want to support friendly functions, with autocompletion in the editor.
I want 100% test coverage
I want the package to be modular, so that, any changes to API, can be easily reflected
I want to support both async and normal methods (the core will be implemented thru async, but there will be a wrapper for those who don't want to use async)

example:

import asyncio
from library import Api

api = Api()

async def do_job():
    thing = await api.get_thing()
    print(thing)

asyncio.run(do_job())

from library.sync import Api

thing = api.get_thing()

print(thing)

the data that will be passed to the functions should be validated. planning to use pydantic.

planning to create a sub-package library.models to contain all the modules defining the models.

how should I design the entire thing? how should I structure the project?

best practices? guides?

Are you procrastinating?

Aahnik Daw — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:31:17 +0000

Are you procrastinating? This playlist gives you the ultimate tools to take control of your life.

Watch the videos. Rewatch. Implement. Think. Reflect. Watch again. Iterate.

Be patient, and you will be able to kill the monster.

Link to the playlist on YouTube.

How do you bookmark and take notes?

Aahnik Daw — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:31:49 +0000

As developers, we encounter a huge amount of information every single day.

GitHub repositories, dev.to articles, Medium articles, YouTube videos, blog posts on independent websites, courses, documentation of libraries we are using, and the list goes on.

We need a simple and efficient system to bookmark or save interesting stuff. Sometimes we also need to note down things we learned.

We have all been there. Google searching a piece of content that we encountered earlier, and not getting that easily, as we forgot the specifics.

Saving everything in a centralized system, with proper categorization and tagging, can help us find stuff faster.

There are many ways to do it. Like:

Using the native bookmarking feature of our browsers.
Platform-specific ways like Star on GitHub or Save on dev.to or Save to Watch Later on YouTube.
A GitHub repository can be used to store all the notes as markdown files. A bookmark is also a note. All notes are organized into topic-wise sub-folders.
Using GitHub issues to save the content. They are fast to create, and also taggable. GitHub offers a very efficient search across issues.
A database in a platform like Notion is a great choice. You can use Save to Notion browser extension to save content to it.
Using a bookmarking software (most of which are paid) for example :
- raindrop.io,
- pocket
and so on.

What system or tools do you use to bookmark and take notes?

Is it free and open source?

Did you ever change your technique? Are you satisfied with your technique?

What are the pros and cons of the tool/technique you use?

Please answer these questions in the comments. I would love to know how people deal with this thing.

Compose an email with markdown and send it with a Python script

Aahnik Daw — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 04:59:10 +0000

Recap

In the previous article of this series, we had written a simple script to send an email with Python.

Let's recap the steps:

we first imported SMTP class from smptplib
we then defined the variables HOST,PORT,SENDER and PASSWORD
we then created an object of the SMTP class named server
Now call multiple server functions:
1. connect
2. ehlo
3. starttls
4. ehlo
5. login
define the RECIPIENT and MESSAGE
send the email by calling server.sendmail

To see the code, read my previous article.

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Aahnik Daw ・ Apr 7 '21

#python #email #tutorial #discuss

Let's Enhance

In this article, we will take further what we have learned in the previous article.

We will add some new features to our script:

rich-text via markdown.
setting a subject of the email.
using an alias name for the sender (you can set the sender's display name to be anything, like "Mr. Bean", irrespective of your actual email address).

Markdown

In the modern world, plain text looks boring. Professional emails have some logo, or title image, along with the richly formatted text.

Writing HTML is time-consuming, so we will use the markdown format, to compose beautiful emails.

If you are not familiar with the markdown formatting, then you should learn it because:

it is used to write posts in dev.to
it is commonly used to write the README file for your GitHub projects

To deal with markdown in python, we need the markdown package.

So install it via pip.



❯ pip install Markdown

Write the code

Let's say we will write our email in a file called compose.md. Our script should send the content of that file as an email to our recipient.

Delete the old send.py that we have written last day. Let's refactor our code, to make it more mature and maintainable.

Let's define all our variables in a file called settings.py



# settings.py

HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
PORT = 587
SENDER = 'youremail@gmail.com'
PASSWORD = 'your12434(893**!@password'
RECIPIENT = 'some@example.com'
MESSAGE_FILE = 'compose.md'
DISPLAY_NAME = 'Mr. Bean'

Now let's write down the send.py



# send.py

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

from smtplib import SMTP

import markdown

from settings import (HOST, PORT,
                      SENDER, DISPLAY_NAME, PASSWORD,
                      RECIPIENT, MESSAGE_FILE)


with open(MESSAGE_FILE) as file:
    message = file.read()


server = SMTP(host=HOST, port=PORT)
server.connect(host=HOST, port=PORT)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login(user=SENDER, password=PASSWORD)

multipart_msg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")

multipart_msg["Subject"] = message.splitlines()[0]
multipart_msg["From"] = DISPLAY_NAME + f' <{SENDER}>'
multipart_msg["To"] = RECIPIENT

text = message
html = markdown.markdown(text)

part1 = MIMEText(text, "plain")
part2 = MIMEText(html, "html")

multipart_msg.attach(part1)
multipart_msg.attach(part2)


server.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENT, multipart_msg.as_string())

print('Sent email successfully!')

That's it. Coding is over. Now let's run the script send.py.



❯ python send.py
Sent email successfully!

Your output will look like this 👆 if you did everything alright. The email will be sitting right in the recipient's inbox.

I am Aahnik Daw and you can follow me on GitHub and dev.to to stay updated with my latest repos and articles.

Declutter your Downloads folder with Python 😎

Aahnik Daw — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:41 +0000

Introduction

We download tons of files daily from the internet.

If you are a Windows user, they most probably land up in your Desktop folder by default, making it look like a mess.

For Unix users, it's generally the ~/Downloads folder.

Having all the files in one folder makes it hard to navigate. It takes more time to reach the desired file. And it simply looks bad.

One great way of organizing files is by their mime type. That is, all the images go to one folder, all the pdfs to another, and so on.

So I made a simple tool, that can declutter your downloads folder.

dirganize

PyPI

How to install?

Make sure you have python and pip installed in your system.

The package dirganize is published to the Python Package Index. So, why wait, you can easily install it with a single pip command.

❯ pip install dirganize

How to use ?

Navigate into the directory, which you want to organize, and run the dirganize command.

❯ cd Downloads
❯ dirganize
Creating mapping  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00
Moving files  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00

And that's it. Your folder is organized.

Run the ls command (or dir for Windows) before and after executing dirganize to see the magic.

Your rules

Your folder. Your rules.

Want to change the rules? I mean the rules that govern which file goes to which folder.

Then simply, put a .dirganize.yml file inside the folder to override the default configuration.

A yaml file is basically converted to a python dictionary by dirganize. The default dictionary is overwritten by the user-defined configuration (when available).

I am Aahnik Daw and you can follow me on GitHub and dev.to to stay updated with my latest repos and articles.

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Aahnik Daw — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:29:37 +0000

Background

Sending emails is one of the most common functionalities in the modern world. This article is not about how email works under the hood, but how you can easily send an email using a python script.

Why use Python to send an email when you can use Gmail?

when you know how to send an email with python, you can automate a lot of boring stuff
you can also integrate the email feature with your other applications
send out your newsletter for free

and the use cases are endless.

Requirements

To follow this tutorial you must have python 3.6 + installed in your system. At the time I am writing this article, I recommend using python 3.9.3 (the latest stable version).

Open your terminal (also called command prompt in windows), and type python --version, and you should get something like this.

❯ python --version
Python 3.9.0+

You also need to have an email server running. I will not delve deep into behind-the-scenes technology in this article. If you have a Gmail account (or any other email provider), then you are good to go.

Introducing `smtplib`

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages.

Python provides smptplib which is a library used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon.

As smtplib is a part of the python standard library, you don't have to install anything to start using it.

Python offers another standard library called email for basic email-related operations.

Sending a simple email

So first of all let's import smptplib which has already done all the heavy lifting for us.

from smtplib import SMTP

Now we need to define some important variables to get started.

HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' 
# use the smtp server address of your mail provider


PORT = 587 
# this if for TLS, 
# will discuss more about this in a future article

SENDER = 'youremail@gmail.com'

PASSWORD = 'your12434(893**!@password' 
# don't share this script with anyone 🤫
# for building real applications
# always read secrets from environment variables

Now that we have defined the variables required, let's move on to start a connection with the mail server and log in with our credentials.

server = SMTP(host=HOST, port=PORT)
# create an SMTP server object

server.connect(host=HOST, port=PORT)
# connect 


server.ehlo()
# extended hello; like saying hello

server.starttls()
server.ehlo()

server.login(user=SENDER, password=PASSWORD)
# login with your credentials

All the shitty stuff is now over, it's time to finally send the email.

Before we do that, we need to have the email address of the recipient and also the message we want to send them.

RECIPIENT = 'email@example.com'

MESSAGE = '''
Hi! How are you?

This is my first email sent from Python.

Hope to see you soon.
'''

Finally, one more line to send the email to the destination.

server.sendmail(SENDER,RECIPIENT,MESSAGE)

And that's it, we are done. 😀

Reading the tutorial passively will do you no good. Write down the script in a file called send.py and run it.

❯ python send.py

If everything went right, then there will be no output in the terminal, and you will see the email sitting right in the recipient's inbox.

In the upcoming articles of this series, we will make some enhancements to the script, so that we can send rich text emails and also attach files with our email.

Stack Overflow blocked me from asking questions 😥

Aahnik Daw — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:52:06 +0000

I don't know why. But for quite a long time I am getting this.

Stack Overflow says:

You have reached your question limit
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more.

My Stack Overflow profile link is

https://stackoverflow.com/users/13523305/aahnik

Can you help me debug this issue? I have not violated any community guidelines, as far as I know.

Some of my questions received a few downvotes, but I deleted those.

What can I do to regain the capability to ask questions in Stack Overflow?

Has this ever happened to you? Please let me know in the comments.

What suggestions do you have for me to gain back access to ask questions in SO?

What should I do now? 😥😥

Has using Linux changed your life?

Aahnik Daw — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:08:08 +0000

I am curious to listen to other people whose lives have been changed by Linux.

I personally got into programming, and got the fun of the dev world, after I switched to Linux from windows, about 1 year back.

What is your story with Linux? I am curious to know.

Please comment. (but possibly keep it brief)

Build unlimited free-forever static sites without a single line of code

Aahnik Daw — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:02:58 +0000

In this digital era, it is very crucial to be able to publish pages online.

We all have different needs. Someone may need to publish their portfolio, while an educational institute may need to publish their curriculum. The uses are endless.

There is a requirement for a fast and free system, that will allow us to publish pages online.

Notion is a fantastic all-in-one tool to accomplish a variety of tasks.

Heaven 😍

There is one thing that Notion shines in. That is, the creation of beautiful pages. With Notion's drag and drop editor, you can create simple yet stunning pages.

You can have all sorts of formatting like bold, italics, and so on. You have multiple heading levels. You can even change the text color or background color.

You can drag and drop the blocks to organize the page in multiple columns, or even create sub-pages or toggle blocks.

You can directly embed code or a tweet or a youtube video in a Notion page.

For a full list of blocks, that notion offers, please visit notion.so and try it out yourself, if you have not yet used Notion.

I believe that this is a far superior way of creating content than using Word Docx or google sheets or plain markdown files.

Using the publish to web feature, you can make any Notion page public.

Problem 😥

But Notion does not yet allow custom domains and custom slugs (as on the date this article is published). Plus another big disadvantage is Notion's slow loading time. There is several excess stuff on the page, that makes your viewers wait for the page to load.

Solution 🤩

How to solve this problem?

As of now, the best free way is using loconotion which an open-source python tool written by Leonardo Cavaletti.

leoncvlt / loconotion

📄 Python tool to turn Notion.so pages into lightweight, customizable static websites

Loconotion parses the notion pages to produce static HTML, CSS, and js files, which you can deploy anywhere like GitHub pages or Netlify.

You can have custom slugs (just change the name of the HTML files to the slug you want).
Loconotion removes unnecessary javascript and CSS to output lightweight pages that load fast.

Enhancement 😎

As of now (April 05, 2021) loconotion outputs all the files in a single directory, which looks very clumsy.

I made a script that can organize all the files generated by loconotion into various subdirectories without breaking any HTML or CSS.

Deploy 😘

You can upload all these files to a GitHub repository, and enable GitHub pages for the repository.

GitHub pages also allow you to publish the site to a custom domain you own. Read how to set up that in the GitHub Docs.

And thus you have a static site, up and running in a few minutes.

If you make any changes, just push the updated files to the GitHub repo, and they go live.

If you have built any site or pages using this technique, please post a link to that in the comments below.

How do you build fast static sites for publishing some content to the web? Please share your ideas and techniques in the comments below.

I am @aahnik on GitHub. Do check out my projects if you are scrolling. ❤️

DEV Community: Aahnik Daw

Python program to automate custom telegram chat forwarding

Top 14 Python Projects to learn GitHub Actions 🚀

I got a 50$ gift from dev.to, and here it is 😍

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Aahnik Daw ・ Apr 7 '21

I want to build a Python wrapper for an API, how should I approach it?

Are you procrastinating?

How do you bookmark and take notes?

Compose an email with markdown and send it with a Python script

Recap

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Aahnik Daw ・ Apr 7 '21

Let's Enhance

Markdown

Write the code

Declutter your Downloads folder with Python 😎

Introduction

dirganize

How to install?

How to use ?

Your rules

How to send emails with Python? Simply explained for beginners

Background

Requirements

Introducing smtplib

Sending a simple email

Stack Overflow blocked me from asking questions 😥

Has using Linux changed your life?

Build unlimited free-forever static sites without a single line of code

Heaven 😍

Problem 😥

Solution 🤩

leoncvlt / loconotion

📄 Python tool to turn Notion.so pages into lightweight, customizable static websites

Enhancement 😎

Deploy 😘

Introducing `smtplib`