About

• Program that checks Github to make sure you get that sweet sweet green commit chart.

• Sends a text message if you haven't pushed to Github in the past day

Sample Text Notifications (can be edited):

You coded

You didn't code :/

Why

• establish your superiority over other programmers
• place all of your self worth onto a contribution graph
• more green in the world

Setup

Gmail Texting Setup

Follow this guide to get your credentials for texting via Gmail servers.

ENV Method

add this .env file to src/util:

EMAIL=INSERT_YOUR_EMAIL 
PASSWORD=INSERT_YOUR_PASSWORD
PHONE_NUMBER=PHONE_NUMBER_TO_SEND_ALERTS_TO

Edit Code Variables Method

edit these variables found in src/util/sms.py:

EMAIL = 'PUT YOUR EMAIL HERE'  # email to send via
PASSWORD = 'PUT YOUR PASSWORD HERE'  # special auth password for email above
PHONE_NUMBER = 'PUT YOUR PHONE NUMBER HERE'  # phone number to send texts to

Hosting

I used a cron job on an ec2 instance that just checks Github every day at 10pm.

Get 1 year free of AWS (not sponsored)

NOTE: You could also run this locally

The following commands are only UNIX based machines (sorry windows users)

1. cd into /src:

cd did-you-code-today/src/

2. install needed packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. adjust permissions of python file with chmod:

chmod +x github_scraper.py

4. edit crontab:

crontab -e

5. put this in your crontab thing (with respective paths):

0 22 * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/ec2-user/did-you-code-today/src/

6. enjoy!

What I learned

• webscraping with BeautifulSoup (python library)
• don't waste your time with the Github API (haha)
• green graph == good

FAQ

Q: Why AWS?
A: Beacuse it was free (thanks bezos)

Q: Is this practical?
A: Yes

Q: Does this use AI?
A: unfortunately, no.