Build a Python Recipe Email Bot with Web Scraping and Scheduling

Introduction

Hello, I am a Python enthusiast. Recently a senior shared an interesting code for scheduled recipe sharing, which I present here.

Implementation Idea

The approach consists of two parts: a Python web crawler that fetches a daily article and stores it, and an email‑sending logic that formats a template and sends the content.

Implementation Process

The full code is shown below.

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)

Simply provide your email address, authorization code, and recipient address. For details on obtaining the authorization code, refer to the linked article.

After running the script, the user receives an email with the recipes.

Conclusion

This article demonstrates a small project that combines Python web crawling and automated email sending to deliver daily recipes.