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ymyook

Reputation: 23

How can I check a folder every couple hours and send an email if something is found in it, using Python?

Let's say I have a script that checks this one folder to see if there is anything in there that I want.

I'd like to have this script run somewhere in the background (this would be cooler) or execute every 2 hours or so and send me an email if there is anything found.

how can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 129

Answers (1)

William
William

Reputation: 154

So you essentially have two parts:

1) How to set up my a scheduled script?

Assuming you're on Windows you can follow the steps here: Schedule Python Script - Windows 7 to set up a scheduled script either through the gui or the command line. The output of that script can be boolean in nature and prompt the execution of the second part of your question.

2) How to send an email?

For this you could try this code:

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Import the email modules we'll need
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
# the text file contains only ASCII characters.
fp = open(textfile, 'rb')
# Create a text/plain message
msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
fp.close()

# me == the sender's email address
# you == the recipient's email address
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()

More information for this step can be found here: How to send an email with Python?

Upvotes: 1

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