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-date = 2022-06-22
-title = "Daily Plaintext Poetry via Email"
-description = "A small project to automatically deliver poetry to your inbox daily."
-+++
-
-## Source Code
-
-I don't want to bury the lede here, so if you'd like to see the full
-source code I use to email myself plaintext poems daily, visit the
-repository: [daily-poem](https://git.sr.ht/~cmc/daily-poem/).
-
-## My Daily Dose of Poetry
-
-Most of my programming projects are small, random projects that are made
-strictly to fix some small problem I have or enhance my quality of life.
-
-In this case, I was looking for a simply and easy way to get a daily
-dose of literature or poetry to read in the mornings.
-
-However, I don't want to sign up for a random mailing list on just any
-website. I also don't want to have to work to find the reading content
-each morning, as I know I would simply give up and stop reading daily.
-
-Thus, I found a way to deliver poetry to myself in plain-text format, on
-a daily basis, and scheduled to deliver automatically.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-This solution uses Python and email, so the following process requires
-the following to be installed:
-
-1.  An SMTP server, which can be as easy as installing
-    `mailutils` if you're on a Debian-based distro.
-2.  Python (& pip!)
-3.  The following Python packages: `email`,
-    `smtplib`, `json`, and `requests`
-
-## Breaking Down the Logic
-
-I want to break down the logic for this program, as it's quite simple
-and informational.
-
-### Required Packages
-
-This program starts with a simple import of the required packages, so I
-wanted to explain why each package is used:
-
-```python
-from email.mime.text import MIMEText # Required for translating MIMEText
-import smtplib # Required to process the SMTP mail delivery
-import json # Required to parse the poetry API results
-import requests # Required to send out a request to the API
-```
-
-### Sending the API Request
-
-Next, we need to actually send the API request. In my case, I'm calling
-a random poem from the entire API. If you want, you can call specific
-poems or authors from this API.
-
-```python
-json_data = requests.get('https://poetrydb.org/random').json()
-```
-
-This gives us the following result in JSON:
-
-```json
-[
-  {
-    "title": "Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children",
-    "author": "Michael Drayton",
-    "lines": [
-      "To Folly",
-      "",
-      "With fools and children, good discretion bears;",
-      "Then, honest people, bear with Love and me,",
-      "Nor older yet, nor wiser made by years,",
-      "Amongst the rest of fools and children be;",
-      "Love, still a baby, plays with gauds and toys,",
-      "And, like a wanton, sports with every feather,",
-      "And idiots still are running after boys,",
-      "Then fools and children fitt'st to go together.",
-      "He still as young as when he first was born,",
-      "No wiser I than when as young as he;",
-      "You that behold us, laugh us not to scorn;",
-      "Give Nature thanks you are not such as we.",
-      "Yet fools and children sometimes tell in play",
-      "Some, wise in show, more fools indeed than they."
-    ],
-    "linecount": "15"
-  }
-]
-```
-
-### Parsing the API Results
-
-In order to parse this into a readable format, we need to use the
-`json` package and extract the fields we want. In the example
-below, I am grabbing every field presented by the API.
-
-For the actual poem content, we need to loop over each line in the
-`lines` variable since each line is a separate string by
-default.
-
-> You *could* also extract the title or author and make another call out
-> to the API to avoid having to build the plaintext poem with a loop,
-> but it just doesn't make sense to me to send multiple requests when
-> we can create a simple loop on our local machine to work with the data
-> we already have.
->
-> For
-> [example](https://poetrydb.org/title/Sonnet%20XXII:%20With%20Fools%20and%20Children/lines.text),
-> look at the raw data response of this link to see the poem's lines
-> returned in plaintext.
-
-```python
-title = json_data[0]['title']
-author = json_data[0]['author']
-line_count = json_data[0]['linecount']
-lines = ''
-for line in json_data[0]['lines']:
-  lines = lines + line + "\n"
-```
-
-### Composing the Email
-
-Now that I have all the data I need, I just need to compose it into a
-message and prepare the message metadata.
-
-For my daily email, I want to see the title of the poem first, followed
-by the author, then a blank line, and finally the full poem. This code
-snippet combines that data and packages it into a MIMEText container,
-ready to be emailed.
-
-```python
-msg_body = title + "\n" + author + "\n\n" + lines
-msg = MIMEText(msg_body)
-```
-
-Before we send the email, we need to prepare the metadata (subject,
-from, to, etc.):
-
-```python
-sender_email = 'example@server.local'
-recipient_emails = ['user@example.com']
-msg['Subject'] = 'Your Daily Poem (' + line_count + ' lines)'
-msg['From'] = sender_email
-msg['To'] = recipient_email
-```
-
-### Sending the Email
-
-Now that I have everything ready to be emailed, the last step is to
-simply connect to an SMTP server and send the email out to the
-recipients. In my case, I installed `mailutils` on Ubuntu and
-let my SMTP server be `localhost`.
-
-```python
-smtp_server = 'localhost'
-s = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server)
-s.sendmail(sender_email, recipient_emails, msg.as_string())
-s.quit()
-```
-
-## The Result!
-
-Instead of including a screenshot, I've copied the contents of the
-email that was delivered to my inbox below since I set this process up
-in plaintext format.
-
-```txt
-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:37:19 +0000 (UTC)
-From: REDACTED
-To: REDACTED
-Subject: Your Daily Poem (36 lines)
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children
-Michael Drayton
-
-With fools and children, good discretion bears;
-Then, honest people, bear with Love and me,
-Nor older yet, nor wiser made by years,
-Amongst the rest of fools and children be;
-Love, still a baby, plays with gauds and toys,
-And, like a wanton, sports with every feather,
-And idiots still are running after boys,
-Then fools and children fitt'st to go together.
-He still as young as when he first was born,
-No wiser I than when as young as he;
-You that behold us, laugh us not to scorn;
-Give Nature thanks you are not such as we.
-Yet fools and children sometimes tell in play
-Some, wise in show, more fools indeed than they.
-```
-
-## Scheduling the Daily Email
-
-Last, but not least, is scheduling this Python script with
-`crontab`. To schedule a script to run daily, you can add it
-to the `crontab` file. To do this, open `crontab`
-in editing mode:
-
-```sh
-crontab -e
-```
-
-In the file, simply paste the following snippet at the bottom of the
-file and ensure that the file path is correctly pointing to wherever you
-saved your Python script:
-
-```config
-0 8 * * * python3 /home/<your_user>/dailypoem/main.py
-```
-
-We have now set up the script and scheduled it to run daily at 08:00!