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Soutzikevich
Soutzikevich

Reputation: 1031

Can't send an email with Scrapy(1.5.1) in Python

I am new to Python and Scrapy.

All I want to achieve, is send a simple email, using only Scrapy. I have read the documentation from the creators' webpage and I must be missing something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Here is the code:

from scrapy import mail

mailer = mail.MailSender(smtphost='smtp-mail.outlook.com',
                         mailfrom='[email protected]',
                         smtpuser='[email protected]',
                         smtppass='mypassword',
                         smtpport=587,
                         smtptls=True,
                         )


def send_mail(mail_sender):
return mail_sender.send(to=["[email protected]"],
                        subject="Hello",
                        body="Hello receiver",
                        mimetype='text/plain')


send_mail(mailer)

Update: I am running this script with pycharm instead of using scrapy.cmdline. Does this have anything to do as to why my code is not working?

This is the output I get: 

Process finished with exit code 0

Upvotes: 1

Views: 149

Answers (1)

Soutzikevich
Soutzikevich

Reputation: 1031

The problem was that I was running the script directly from my IDE (Pycharm).

To run a spider from the IDE, without using a terminal, one could invoke a command programmatically.

Scrapy has a module that allows doing this:

from scrapy import cmdline

cmdline.execute("scrapy crawl <spider_name>".split())

Scrapy email library works like a charm!

Upvotes: 1

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