An Outreach Bot for Eventbrite

Hosted on heroku using heroku buildpacks GCP Ubuntu VM

Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on both your local machine and on a server for development and testing purposes.

Running on Cloud

Upgrade and Update the OS

1. sudo apt update
2. sudo apt upgrade

Install PIP

1. sudo apt install python3-pip

Install some dependency packages

1. sudo apt install software-properties-common
2. sudo apt-get install gconf-service libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxss1 libxtst6 libappindicator1 libnss3 libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation lsb-release xdg-utils wget

Clone the repo and cd into it

1. git clone https://github.com/heavenya/email_bot.git
2. cd email_bot

Install venv Package

1. sudo apt install python3.10-venv

Create a virtual environment

1. python3 -m venv venv

Install packages in requirements file

1. pip install -r requirements.txt

Download and install Chrome browser

1. wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
2. sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Export slack ACCESS_TOKEN:

1. export ACCESS_TOKEN=xoxb--*-********

Upgrade Jellyfist package duw to this issue: unitedstates/python-us#65

1. pip install -Iv jellyfish

Run as a background service using nohup

1. nohup python main.py > test2.log &
2. ps -fA | grep python

Running on Local

Prerequisites

1. Install requirements.txt. I used pip to install the packages in the file.

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Make sure the driver is in your path, you will need to add your CHROMEDRIVER_PATH to the .env file.

I used the Chrome driver, you can download it here. You can also download Edge, Firefox or Safari. Depends on your preferred browser.

Usage

Fork and clone/download the repository and change the configuration file with:

• Your slack api key
• Run locally, by commenting out the settings for chromedriver executable path, replace with yours.