Mail::GcalReminder - Send reminders to Google calendar event guests
This document describes Mail::GcalReminder version 0.5
use Mail::GcalReminder; my $gcr = Mail::GcalReminder->new( 'gmail_user' => "…@gmail.com", 'gmail_pass' => "…", # !!!! chmod 700 !! 'app_name' => 'Acme Co, Auto Notifier', ); $gcr->send_reminders({ 'gcal' => '…%40group.calendar.google.com/private-…', # !!!! chmod 700 !! 'in_advance' => ['weeks' => 1], 'min_events' => 1, 'max_events' => 1, 'subject' => "[thing schedule] 1 week reminder for you thing", 'body' => 'Be there or be square! Call me if you have questions: 867-5309.', }); $gcr->send_reminders({ 'gcal' => '…%40group.calendar.google.com/private-…', # !!!! chmod 700 !! 'in_advance' => ['weeks' => 5], 'min_events' => 1, 'max_events' => 1, 'subject' => sub { my ($self,$event) = @_; … return "[thing schedule] 5 week heads up for you $event->{'title'}"; }, 'body' => sub { my ($self,$event) = @_; … return 'All details are in the calendar, see you in five weeks!'; }, });
Now simply cron that to run everyday at, say, 4am (to avoid DST blackouts) and you're done! Any problems are output as messages and will come into your cron email.
0 4 * * * /home/me/send_talk_reminders.pl
You can set gmail to send you reminders for stuff in your calendar but you can’t have it send reminders to guests.
This module allows you to create scripts that grab a goodle calendar and send reminders to guests from your gmail account.
gmail_user (required in new)
Your Gmail account user.
gmail_pass (required in new)
Your Gmail account password. For security, you should protect your script (e.g. chmod 700).
app_name
A name to use in the default signature().
Defaults to: $gcr->gmail_user (__PACKAGE__)
cc_self
Boolean, default 1, CC gmail_user() on each email sent.
try_receipts
Boolean, default 1, try to do read receipts for each email sent.
try_priority
no_guests_is_ok
Boolean, default 1, if an event has no guests do not count it as a failure in send_reminders(). You still get a “No guests” warning().
base_date
A date time object, default DateTime->now( time_zone => $gcal->time_zone ), to base 'in_advance' on.
time_zone
Time zone to use in default 'base_date' and the event_dt_obj object.
Defaults to UTC. Value given must be sutiable for DateTime::TimeZone->new’s name attribute.
http
HTTP Client object. Defaults to lazy loaded HTTP::Tiny object.
If an object is given it must have a mirror() method.
That mirror() method should that a URL and a file path and returns the same sort of response object as HTTP::Tiny.
workdir
Directory to download ical’s too.
include_event_dt_obj
Boolean, default 0, include the key event_dt_obj in the “hashref of event details”
essg_hax_ver
Mostly internal, identifies a module version that we've tested a certain header behavior on, this is mostly for testing and to flag us down when the module is updated.
warning_code
This is a code ref that is executed by warning(). The default it is a carp() with the proper level set.
date_format_obj
Deprecated as of v0.5, due to not needing to parse ATOM feed date strings.
signature
Message to append to the email body.
Default is:
$body -- $gcr->app_name Note: Please ensure mail from “$gcr->gmail_user” is not being filtered out of your inbox.
debug
Boolean, default 0, enables debug mode which makes things more verbose and uses gmail_user() for “to” instead of guests.
gcal_cache
A hashref that contains a cache of fetched and parsed calendars. We cache so we can send different reminders (e.g. 1 week and 5 week) on the same calendar and only download and parse it once.
This sends reminders per the configuration hashref you pass in (described below).
Returns zero-but-true when there are no applicable events.
Returns the event count if all were successfully sent messages (or there were any with no guests but you've considered it ok via $gcal->no_guests_is_ok()).
Returns false otherwise. Specific messages are given to $gcal->warning().
The send_reminders() configuration hashref has the following keys:
The calendar whose events you are interested in.
The value is part of the XML (under “Calendar Details” in your google calendar UI).
Take the URL and remove 'https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/' from the beggining and '/basic' from the end.
For example:
If your public XML URL is: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
Then the value to 'gcal' is: 6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/public
If your private XML URL is: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/private-a6689d558b4dbba8942e510985b604d3/basic
Then the value to 'gcal' is: 6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/private-a6689d558b4dbba8942e510985b604d3';
Note: The public URL does not include guests in the data so you should probably use the private URL (or 'guestcheck' to get a list via other means). For security, you should protect your script (e.g. chmod 700).
Name to use in messages, defaults to 'gcal'.
This is how we find the events we are interested in. If your your base_date is the default and you are sending remionders for 1 week 'in_advance' then any events 7 days from right now are what we are looking for.
The value is an array ref of arguments sutiable for DateTime’s add method.
The subject of the reminder email. Either a UTF-8 string or a coderef that takes the main object and a hashref of event details (described under get_gcal()) as its arguments and returns the string.
The body of the reminder email. Either a UTF-8 string or a coderef that takes the main object and a hashref of event details (described under get_gcal()) as its arguments and returns the string.
Optional. The minimum number of events that should be on a given day if there are any.
Optional. The maximum number of events that should be on a given day if there are any.
Optional. The minimum number of guests that an event is expected to have.
Optional. The maximum number of guests that an event is expected to have.
Optional. A coderef that takes the main object and then any event guests as it args, does whatever you want (e.g. check that the guest is in your database and warning() otherwise, filter out certain ones, include others, etc), and returns the guest list you want to use.
Other methods that exist to support send_reminders():
get_gcal($gcal)
Fetch, parse, and cache the given google calendar. Argument is the same as set_reminder’s 'gcal' key. Returns the cached hashref of event details for the given google calendar.
The “hashref of event details” has the following keys:
Name of the event.
Description of event. This is undef if there is no description.
URL of the event.
Stringified month and day of the event.
Year of the event.
Time of the event.
An array ref of event guests.
The location of the event, if any.
This will exist if $gcr->include_event_dt_obj is true. It is a DateTime object of the event’s date/time. The time zone is $gcr->time_zone
Title of the calendar.
URL of the calendar.
The events’s Data::ICal::Entry object.
Raw date the calendar was last updated.
Formatted date the calendar was last updated.
warning("message goes here\n");
Handle the given message. set via warning_code().
send_gmail($to,$subject,$body);
Send an email from gmail_users() account. Returns true on success. If it fails the error is sent to warning() and it returns false.
All messages are sent to $gcr->warnings().
Not enough events (min %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Too many events (max %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Not enough guests (min %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Too many guests (max %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
No guests for “%s”.
Could not determine date due to missing “dtstart”.
Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail is newer than $gcr->essg_hax_ver, skipping header-via-charset hack
Errors beyond those are not directly from this module.
Moo
Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail
DateTime
DateTime::TimeZone
Carp
DateTime::Format::ISO8601
HTTP::Tiny
XML::Simple
Temp::File
For Testing: Test::More, Net::Detect, Test::Warn
Support and/or outline how a config file might be used to various advantages.
None reported.
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-mail-gcalreminder@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
bug-mail-gcalreminder@rt.cpan.org
Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>
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Copyright (c) 2013, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. All rights reserved.
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To install Mail::GcalReminder, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Mail::GcalReminder
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Mail::GcalReminder
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.