Automate Daily Recipe Emails with Python Web Scraping

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Introduction

Recently a friend shared an interesting code that periodically sends recipe shares. Below is the implementation.

Implementation Idea

The idea is simple: first use a Python web scraper to fetch daily articles from a website, store the content in a variable, then compose an email using a template and send it.

Implementation Process

Here is the full code:

import requests, bs4
import smtplib
import schedule
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.header import Header

# account = input('请输入你的邮箱：')
# password = input('请输入你的密码：')
# receiver = input('请输入收件人的邮箱：')
account = '{0}'.format('请输入你的邮箱：')
password = '{0}'.format('请输入你的密码：')
receiver = '{0}'.format('请输入收件人的邮箱：')

def recipe_spider():
    list_all = ''
    num = 0
    for a in range(1, 11):
        headers = {'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36'}
        n = '{0}{1}{2}'.format('https://home.meishichina.com/show-top-type-recipe-page-', a, '.html')
        res_foods = requests.get(n, headers=headers)
        bs_foods = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res_foods.text, 'html.parser')
        list_foods = bs_foods.find('div', class_='space_left')
        for food in list_foods.find_all('li'):
            num = num + 1
            name = food.find('h2').text.strip()
            foods = food.find('p', class_='subcontent').text.strip()
            url_food = food.find('a')['href'].strip()
            food_info = '
%s、%s
 %s
 链接: %s
' % (num, name, foods, url_food)
            list_all = list_all + food_info
    return list_all

def send_email(list_all):
    global account, password, receiver
    mailhost = 'smtp.qq.com'
    qqmail = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(mailhost, 465)
    qqmail.login(account, password)
    content = '亲爱的，本周的热门菜谱如下' + list_all
    message = MIMEText(content, 'plain', 'utf-8')
    subject = '周末吃个啥——美食天下'
    message['Subject'] = Header(subject, 'utf-8')
    try:
        qqmail.sendmail(account, receiver, message.as_string())
        print('邮件发送成功')
    except:
        print('邮件发送失败')
    qqmail.quit()

def job():
    print('开始一次任务')
    list_all = recipe_spider()
    send_email(list_all)
    print('任务完成')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    job()
# schedule.every(0.05).minutes.do(job)
# while True:
#     schedule.run_pending()
#     time.sleep(1)

After running the script, the recipient will receive an email containing the fetched recipes.

You can also schedule the script to send yourself weekly reminders.

Conclusion

This article demonstrates a small project that combines Python web scraping and automated email sending to deliver daily recipe recommendations.