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In previous lessons,

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we completed our automated birthday wisher Python project

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and also the motivational quotes on Monday's Python project.

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But at the moment,

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you'll notice that this code is only going to work to continuously check to see

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which day it is currently, compare it against the birthdays,

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and then run the code

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if this code is actually running constantly in the background.

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Now you could of course, open up your project in PyCharm,

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hit run every single day and make sure that it works,

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but that's actually more effort than wishing somebody happy birthday manually.

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So what do we do instead? Well,

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we want some sort of way where we can host our code in the cloud and run our code

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every single day.

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So one way of doing that is using a service called Python anywhere,

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and they have a free tier where we can do exactly that without having to pay

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anything. Head over to python

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anywhere.com and go ahead and sign up for a new account.

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Now, once you've signed up and signed in,

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then you want to go ahead and start adding some files.

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Head over to the files tab right here

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and we're going to upload the files that's currently inside our birthday wisher

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project. So that's our main.y, our birthdays.csv,

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and also our letter templates.

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Now we want our letter templates to be inside a folder, so we're going to

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create a new directory called letter_templates.

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Make sure there's no typos there.

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And then inside this directory is where we're going to upload these three files.

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So letter 1, 2 and 3.

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So now we've got our letters inside hom/AppBrewery/letter_

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templates, and inside AppBrewery

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we've got our birthdays.csv and our main.py.

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So now we're going to go into our console and we're going to create a new bash

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console. So we're going to click on this link right here,

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and then once all of that's loaded and you see this dollar sign right here,

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we're going to type python3 main.py.

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Now you might see this error right here, the SMTP authentication error.

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And this is something that happens because our Python program is trying to log

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into our email, and our email provider in this case,

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it's Google, is actually blocking it. So we can copy this URL and you can see it

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ends right here

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cause there's a space there, and we can paste it into the address bar and it

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takes us to this problem.

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I can't sign into my email client, and this is essentially what our Python code

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is trying to do.

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So what we need to do is click on this link to display the unlock capture, we

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click continue, and it's now enabled our code to sign in again.

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So we have to go back and type in exactly the same as we did before, python3

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main.py.

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But this time it should complete without giving us any errors

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and it does that by showing us the dollar sign again and our prompt.

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And now if I head back into my email,

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you can see that this email was actually sent because the code was initiated

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inside Pythonanywhere. So going back to our Python

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anywhere dashboard,

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we can go to the task section to actually schedule

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a task to run. Now to set up a scheduled task,

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we're going to type the same command that we did in the console

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which is python3 main.py.

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And then we're going to schedule this at a particular time.

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And the server time is based on UTC.

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So you can take a look at the current time in UTC

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by typing in UTC now into Google

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and you can see right now it's 12:09.

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So if I go ahead and schedule this for 12:10

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and I hit create,

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then at the time when this particular time hits,

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when it becomes 12:10, then our command should be run

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and we should see a happy birthday email show up in our testing Gmail account.

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So right now UTC has just gone to 12:10.

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And so if we wait for this schedule task,

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we can click on this button to view the task log and you do have to be quite

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patient because sometimes it might take a while before that task actually gets

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executed. So just keep checking the task log until you see this happen.

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Completed task at 12:10:56, o at the end of that minute.

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Took 16.92 seconds return code was zero, which means it was successful.

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And now we can see that email show up in our Gmail account and this was

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completely automated and it was done by Python anywhere.

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So now if we have that code running in the background every day,

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you can get it to run that code at this particular time or another time of your

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choosing in fact. If you're not testing it,

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you can actually get it to run much earlier. Let's say maybe seven o'clock UTC.

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Then it'll send the email out in the morning.

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And every day it's going to check whose birthday it is in your birthday CSV

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and then send an email to them and do all of that fancy stuff

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using what we did with Python. Python anywhere has really good forums for help

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and advice. And on the free tier,

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you can only schedule one task to run, so one particular code base.

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Now I don't work for them and I have no relations to them,

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but I find it really helpful to have a really simple way of getting my Python

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scripts to run everyday at a particular time.

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So have a look at that and you can use it if you find it helpful as well.