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Lend Expire Notification

...for Stadtbibliothek Radebeul

About

This script checks the current lends of the user. If a lend is about to expire it sends an e-mail notification.

To get the Information the script simulates a user. It does a login to the OPAC System of the Stadtbibliothek Radebeul and extracts the information from the website. To archive this, it utiles using selenium.

Each run will trigger one e-mail, so trigger or run in the desired frequency.

Getting Stared

1. Check out the repo
2. Add username, password and email address in the users.json file
3. create a ".env" file or past the following configurations varabiles into the environment varabiles

Enviornment Varables

SMTP_SERVER=mail.server.com
SMTP_PORT=587
EMAIL_ADDRESS=sender-mail
EMAIL_PASSWORD=password
DAYS_BEFORE=3

users.json

[
    {
        "username": "username",
        "password": "password",
        "recipient_email": "notification_mail"
    }
]