orkohunter/ping-me

A cross platform personalized Ping

Note from the author

I no longer work on this project. Maintaining a server and other extensions to store reminders and execute them on time takes a lot of effort. There are gigantic companies and startups working on this. It also made me hit my first burnout because I thought I could make everything on my own in a short duration of time. I'm thankful I learnt this early.

I agressively use Google Calendar which sends me all kinds of reminders aka Pings :') and thus instead of re-inventing the wheel, I think I can work on new ideas. Plus, there exists quite a lot of tools which interface with Google Calendar from the command line and and they take care of NLP as well. Thus, I feel there is no need to revive the project.

It was a good run. Thanks to the 300 registered and other anonymous users for giving chills to an 18 year old kid, on one of his first pet projects.

April 20, 2018

TLDR: Have a look at gcalcli or khal.

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ping-me

A Cross Platform personalized Ping

NOTE : The server is not being maintained right now. (Because my GitHub student pack expired)

The beauty of ping-me is its command line interface. Get all of your reminders done just by a single line command on your favorite terminal screen. ping-me will surely ping you at that time, no matter you are online or not. It will get to you on your phone device, smart watch and even SMS in worst cases.

Stay Lazy, Stay Updated !

Installation

Current Release - 0.3

Step 1 : Installing package and dependencies

$ pip install ping-me

Make sure all the dependencies get installed properly while the installation.

Step 2 : Setting up cronjob (Not for windows, See step 3)

$ crontab -e

In the file, add the following lines

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DISPLAY=:0.0

* * * * * get-ping

Make sure to leave a blank line at the end of the file.

Save and exit. The installation is complete.

See this for some explanation of the crontab

Step 3 : Chrome Extension

Download the chrome extension from here.

Log in with the credentials you used for ping-me. And we are done.

Note : ping-me will work even if all chrome windows are closed.

Usage

Use of flags

$ ping-me -d November-24-2015 -t 14:30 Get up and eat!

By default -d and -t accounts for datetime.today and 00:00 hours respectively. Go ahead and make experiments with the syntax.

No flags, pure language

$ ping-me to get up and eat tomorrow afternoon

Add -v flag at the end to see the verbose output.

Project Status

• ping-me identifies date, time and message using flags
• ping-me asks for configuration on first request
• ping-me stores the configuration on remote server
• ping-me stores the message with datetime stamp on the server
• Server activates the ping 50 seconds prior to its exact time
• Server ready for a GET request
• ping-me makes full use of natural language processing
• ping-me notifies through chrome/firefox extension
• ping-me works on linux
• ping-me works on windows
• ping-me works on OS X
• ping-me works on Android
• ping-me sends texts to phone
• ping-me ping-me works on ios
• ping-me works on Windows phone

Contribution : Please feel free to report bugs in the application. I'll try to fix them. Also, if either of javascript or android is your piece of cake, please contact me and we'll make things up real quick. Enjoy anyways!

ping-me's Issues

Are pings sent only via email at the moment?

Or can a mobile number be specified also?

ERROR : Database Error, please report

I get this error when configurating for first time (and also when I run ping-me reconfig). It seems to be a problem with the server. This is the data sent to the server:
{'phone': '11xxxxxxxx', 'join_date': datetime.date(2016, 3, 7), 'country_code': '54', 'country_name': 'Argentina', 'phone_os': 'Unknown', 'password': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 'os': 'linux2', 'email': '[email protected]'}

How to use ping-me

Please update detailed documentation about how to use it.

Use pycrypto instead of implement own ad-hoc system

@OrkoHunter you should use standard crypto librarieslike pycrypto instead of writing your own ones, later is considered a very bad practice.

The message flag isn't working !

(dev)makala@aneesh:~/test/ping/ping-me$ ping-me -d December-16-2015 -t 15:20 Get up and eat!
Message is  
Time is  ['15:20', 'Get', 'up', 'and', 'eat!']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/makala/test/ping/dev/bin/ping-me", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ping-me==0.2.1', 'console_scripts', 'ping-me')()
  File "/home/makala/test/ping/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ping_me-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/ping_me/ping.py", line 48, in main
    date_time = parser.parse(' '.join(args.DATE) + ' ' + ' '.join(args.TIME))
  File "/home/makala/test/ping/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 1008, in parse
    return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
  File "/home/makala/test/ping/dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 395, in parse
    raise ValueError("Unknown string format")
ValueError: Unknown string format

I printed the args.message and args.TIME to the console to debug.
I think the argparser argument for message has to be corrected.
Cheers! Really like your project idea.

How to send sends texts to phone

Help me send the text to my phone.

Specify what works and what doesn't

The project looks interesting and very ambitious, I mean it as a complement. The project is in a very early stage and I guess most of things specified in the README are the things you hope would work. I think you should clearly specify what works and what doesn't.

Several docstrings are missing

Currently the program is missing a few module and function docstrings, they should be created in order to better document the program's code.

Here are the missing docstrings by module:

ping_me

• ping_me
  • Missing module docstring
• ping_me.GET
  • Missing function docstring:
    • main()
• ping_me.authenticate
  • Missing function docstring:
    • extract_email()
    • extract_password()
    • extract_phone()
    • check_saved_password()n
    • newuser()
    • olduser()

depends

• ping_me.depends.text2num
  • Missing module docstring
  • Missing class docstring:
    • NumberException
  • Missing function docstring:
    • text2num()

data

• ping_me.data.module_locator
  • Missing function docstring:
    • we_are_frozen()
    • modeule_path()

utils

• ping_me.utils.cryptex
  • Missing module docstring
  • Missing function docstring:
    • encryptor()
    • decryptor()

Integrate with Google Calendar

Maintaining servers for free is painful. And the solutions available for free (Heroku, OpenShift, etc.) are not reliable for tasks of this importance where the server needs to be up all the time.

On the other hand, I have already been using Google Calendar for meetings, events, etc. and it has a great API too. Hence, it's now best to use Google Calendar for ping-me.

pint-me?

From the readme:

🍻

UTF-8 decoding

when i add task on russian language

$ ping-me -d November-24-2015 -t 14:30 привет
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ping-me", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ping-me==0.2.1', 'console_scripts', 'ping-me')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ping_me/ping.py", line 46, in main
    ' ' + ' '.join(args.TIME))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 1003, in parse
    timestr = timestr.decode()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)

Neat!

Just one query though. Does it e-mail me my ping if required?