Activism Mail Bot

In light of recent events, I have created this Python script to send emails (using the template from nomoreracistcops.github.io) to a list of 159 elected US officials.

The script sends a unique message to each lawmaker by varying sentence structures and switching out nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives with synonyms.

This script only works for gmail accounts.

tl;dr to use the script, run python3 send.py or ./send.py in a terminal.

For a step-by-step walkthrough, see below. Please report bugs to [email protected]!

NOTE: there is a per-minute limit on SMTP messages sent via google's servers. to appease our corporate overlords, i've decreased the speed of our operations.

TODO List:

Setup Google OAuth2 so activism-mail-bot can use the gmail API instead of using SMTP.
Accept JSON input from a front-end service to make activism-mail-bot more accessible. Checkout la-mailer repo.

Installation

Install python3
git clone https://github.com/alandgton/activism-mail-bot.git
cd activism-mail-bot/
Mac Users: you'll need to install certificates for SSL to work
- ⌘ + space, search for Install Certificates.command
- double-click the resulting file
- Read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52805115/certificate-verify-failed-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate
Turn Allow less secure apps to ON for your gmail account.
- Be aware that this makes it easier for others to gain access to your account.
- After running the script, you should switch this back OFF.
Run python3 send.py
- If you want to use the ./send.py command, be sure to run chmod +x send.py beforehand
- Enter your full name
- Enter your gmail
- Enter your gmail password (i'm not logging this anywhere or anything, feel free to look at my code if you're paranoid)
- Enter the subject (title) of your emails. You can leave this blank if you want mailbot to randomly generate titles for you.
At the time of writing, this bot sends uniquely generated emails to 159 elected officials across the nation!
- Please add more recipients! Create a PR or let me know if you would like to add to the default list
- thank you for your time, we did some good work :^)
- activism++
- Please remember to switch Allow less secure apps to OFF.

Footnote

This is a critical time for the rights and freedoms that we cherish as American citizens. Check out this compilation of activism resources and notes (credit: Jemma Kwak)!

Listed below are organizations gladly accepting donations and petitions to sign.

Organizations:
Petitions

sbang97 / activism-mail-bot Goto Github PK