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 Google Cloud VM Instance Must Be Redployed

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.