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Mail-GcalReminder-0.3
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NAME

Mail::GcalReminder - Send reminders to Google calendar event guests

VERSION

This document describes Mail::GcalReminder version 0.3

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::GcalReminder;

my $gcr = Mail::GcalReminder->new(
    'gmail_user' => "…@gmail.com",
    'gmail_pass' => "…", # !!!! chmod 700 !!
    'app_name' => 'Acme Co, Auto Notifier',
);

$gcr->send_reminders({
    'gcal' => '…%40group.calendar.google.com/private-…', # !!!! chmod 700 !!
    'in_advance' => ['weeks' => 1],
    'min_events' => 1,
    'max_events' => 1,
    'subject' => "[thing schedule] 1 week reminder for you thing",
    'body' => 'Be there or be square! Call me if you have questions: 867-5309.',
});

$gcr->send_reminders({
    'gcal' => '…%40group.calendar.google.com/private-…', # !!!! chmod 700 !!
    'in_advance' => ['weeks' => 5],
    'min_events' => 1,
    'max_events' => 1,
    'subject' => sub {
        my ($self,$event) = @_;
        …
        return "[thing schedule] 5 week heads up for you $event->{'title'}";
    },
    'body' => sub {
        my ($self,$event) = @_;
        …
        return 'All details are in the calendar, see you in five weeks!';
   },
});

Now simply cron that to run everyday at, say, 4am (to avoid DST blackouts) and you're done! Any problems are output as messages and will come into your cron email.

0 4 * * * /home/me/send_talk_reminders.pl

DESCRIPTION

You can set gmail to send you reminders for stuff in your calendar but you can’t have it send reminders to guests.

This module allows you to create scripts that grab a goodle calendar and send reminders to guests from your gmail account.

INTERFACE

new() attribute/get-set methods

  • gmail_user (required in new)

    Your Gmail account user.

  • gmail_pass (required in new)

    Your Gmail account password. For security, you should protect your script (e.g. chmod 700).

  • app_name

    A name to use in the default signature().

    Defaults to: $gcr->gmail_user (__PACKAGE__)

  • cc_self

    Boolean, default 1, CC gmail_user() on each email sent.

  • try_receipts

    Boolean, default 1, try to do read receipts for each email sent.

  • try_priority

    Boolean, default 1, try to do read receipts for each email sent.

  • no_guests_is_ok

    Boolean, default 1, if an event has no guests do not count it as a failure in send_reminders(). You still get a “No guests” warning().

  • base_date

    A date time object, default DateTime->now( time_zone => $gcal->time_zone ), to base 'in_advance' on.

  • time_zone

    Time zone to use in default 'base_date' and the event_dt_obj object.

    Defaults to UTC. Value given must be sutiable for DateTime::TimeZone->new’s name attribute.

  • include_event_dt_obj

    Boolean, default 1, calculate and include the key event_dt_obj in the “hashref of event details”

  • essg_hax_ver

    Mostly internal, identifies a module version that we've tested a certain header behavior on, this is mostly for testing and to flag us down when the module is updated.

  • warning_code

    This is a code ref that is executed by warning(). The default it is a carp() with the proper level set.

  • date_format_obj

    Can not be set. Returns the object that can parse ataom format date strings.

  • signature

    Message to append to the email body.

    Default is:

    $body

--
$gcr->app_name

Note: Please ensure mail from “$gcr->gmail_user” is not being filtered out of your inbox.

  • debug

    Boolean, default 0, enables debug mode which makes things more verbose and uses gmail_user() for “to” instead of guests.

  • gcal_cache

    A hashref that contains a cache of fetched and parsed calendars. We cache so we can send different reminders (e.g. 1 week and 5 week) on the same calendar and only download and parse it once.

methods

send_reminders({…})

This sends reminders per the configuration hashref you pass in (described below).

Returns zero-but-true when there are no applicable events.

Returns the event count if all were successfully sent messages (or there were any with no guests but you've considered it ok via $gcal->no_guests_is_ok()).

Returns false otherwise. Specific messages are given to $gcal->warning().

The send_reminders() configuration hashref has the following keys:

'gcal'

The calendar whose events you are interested in.

The value is part of the XML (under “Calendar Details” in your google calendar UI).

Take the URL and remove 'https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/' from the beggining and '/basic' from the end.

For example:

If your public XML URL is: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

Then the value to 'gcal' is: 6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/public

If your private XML URL is: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/private-a6689d558b4dbba8942e510985b604d3/basic

Then the value to 'gcal' is: 6qrhpfk1utcs97g9u2o27g5ojo%40group.calendar.google.com/private-a6689d558b4dbba8942e510985b604d3';

Note: The public URL does not include guests in the data so you should probably use the private URL (or 'guestcheck' to get a list via other means). For security, you should protect your script (e.g. chmod 700).

'label'

Name to use in messages, defaults to 'gcal'.

'in_advance'

This is how we find the events we are interested in. If your your base_date is the default and you are sending remionders for 1 week 'in_advance' then any events 7 days from right now are what we are looking for.

The value is an array ref of arguments sutiable for DateTime’s add method.

'subject'

The subject of the reminder email. Either a UTF-8 string or a coderef that takes the main object and a hashref of event details (described under get_gcal()) as its arguments and returns the string.

'body'

The body of the reminder email. Either a UTF-8 string or a coderef that takes the main object and a hashref of event details (described under get_gcal()) as its arguments and returns the string.

'min_events'

Optional. The minimum number of events that should be on a given day if there are any.

'max_events'

Optional. The maximum number of events that should be on a given day if there are any.

'min_guests'

Optional. The minimum number of guests that an event is expected to have.

'max_guests'

Optional. The maximum number of guests that an event is expected to have.

'guestcheck'

Optional. A coderef that takes the main object and then any event guests as it args, does whatever you want (e.g. check that the guest is in your database and warning() otherwise, filter out certain ones, include others, etc), and returns the guest list you want to use.

Other methods that exist to support send_reminders():

  • get_gcal($gcal)

    Fetch, parse, and cache the given google calendar. Argument is the same as set_reminder’s 'gcal' key. Returns the cached hashref of event details for the given google calendar.

    The “hashref of event details” has the following keys:

    'title'

    Name of the event.

    'desc'

    Description of event. This is undef if there is no description.

    'url'

    URL of the event.

    'date'

    Stringified month and day of the event.

    'year'

    Year of the event.

    'time'

    Time of the event.

    'guests'

    An array ref of event guests.

    event_dt_obj

    This will exist if $gcr->include_event_dt_obj is true. It is a DateTime object of the event’s date (time one minute past midnight). The time zone is $gcr->time_zone

    'gcal_title'

    Title of the calendar.

    'gcal_uri'

    URL of the calendar.

    'gcal_entry_obj'

    The events’s XML::Atom::Entry object.

    'gcal_updated'

    Raw date the calendar was last updated.

    'gcal_updated_date'

    Formatted date the calendar was last updated.

  • warning("message goes here\n");

    Handle the given message. set via warning_code().

  • send_gmail($to,$subject,$body);

    Send an email from gmail_users() account. Returns true on success. If it fails the error is sent to warning() and it returns false.

DIAGNOSTICS

All messages are sent to $gcr->warnings().

Not enough events (min %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Too many events (max %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Not enough guests (min %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
Too many guests (max %d, actual %d) for “%s”.
No guests for “%s”.
Could not parse date from summary: %s\nOrig: %s
Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail is newer than $gcr->essg_hax_ver, skipping header-via-charset hack

Errors beyond those are not directly from this module.

DEPENDENCIES

Moo

Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail

URI

XML::Atom::Feed

HTML::Entities

DateTime

Carp

DateTime::Format::Atom

For Testing: Test::More, Net::Detect, Test::Warn

TODO

Support and/or outline how a config file might be used to various advantages.

Use parser and/or params to handle non-en and better handle various date formats.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-mail-gcalreminder@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2013, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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