google-alerts 0.2.9
Abstraction to manage Google Alerts from code
License: MIT
Keywords: google,alerts,automation,administration

Python Google Alerts
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The `google-alerts` Python module provides an abstract interface for the Google Alerts service. Google does not provide an official API for this service, so interactions are done through web scripting.

**WARNING:** Your account password will be obfuscated and saved on the file system. Additionally, post-authentication, a session cookie will also be saved. These can be stolen and re-used to compromise your account. As a best practice, register a new email to manage alerts.

For detailed explanations of the library, please see the wiki_.

.. _wiki: https://github.com/9b/google-alerts/wiki

Quick Start
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**Install the library**:

``pip install google-alerts`` or ``python setup.py install``

**Save your configuration**:

``google-alerts setup --email <your.mail@foo.com> --password 'password'``

**Seed your session (driver download, http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads, do NOT use the pip package as the version is old)**:

``google-alerts seed --driver /tmp/chromedriver --timeout 60``

**Create a monitor**:

``google-alerts create --term "hello world" --delivery 'rss' --frequency 'realtime'``

**List monitors**:

``google-alerts list``

**Delete a monitor**:

``google-alerts delete --id '89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US'``

Sample Code
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This sample code shows some of the range of functionality within the module::

    from google_alerts import GoogleAlerts

    # Create an instance
    ga = GoogleAlerts('your.email@gmail.com', '**password**')

    # Authenticate your user
    ga.authenticate()

    # List configured monitors
    ga.list()

    # Add a new monitor
    ga.create("Hello World", {'delivery': 'RSS'})

    # Modify an existing monitor
    ga.modify("89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US", {'delivery': 'RSS', 'monitor_match': 'ALL'})

    # Delete a monitor
    ga.delete("89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US")


Example Output
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Below is an example monitor::

    [{
        "term": "hello world",
        "user_id": "09738342945634096720",
        "language": "en",
        "monitor_id": "89e517961a3148c7:c395b7d271b4eccc:com:en:US",
        "region": "US",
        "rss_link": "https://google.com/alerts/feeds/09738342945634096720/9663349274289663466",
        "delivery": "RSS",
        "match_type": "BEST"
    }]

Features
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* Add new monitors (RSS or Mail)
* Modify existing monitors
* Delete monitors by ID or term
* List all monitors with details

Changelog
---------
05-09-20
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* Bugfix: Adjusted the seeding process to use Stackoverflow in order to handle initial Google authentication to bypass bot checks

11-20-19
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* Change: Captured all results by default instead of best

07-15-19
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* Bugfix: Handle issues in exception definition
* Bugfix: Provide alert_frequency with a default option if not supplied

07-14-19
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* Change: Wrap state parsing functions and have them raise exception on failures
* Bugfix: Account for state changed pushed by Google, breaking all processing

05-23-19
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* Feature: Add a new command line argument to allow a user to specify a seed timeout time

11-11-18
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* Feature: Add a new command line argument to seed a session through the browser
* Change: Added python version detection to the manage script as well

10-13-18
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* Feature: Detect when user changes between Python versions during setup
* Bugfix: Setup process appears to finally be bug-free, screw python2 support

07-10-18
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* Feature: Added the ability to set the frequency when creating alerts
* Bugfix: Fixed frequency settings when using the mail delivery method

05-30-18
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* Change: Explicitly detect when a CAPTCHA is being thrown

05-28-18
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* Feature: Take advantage of the config file concept inside of the class
* Feature: Authenticate users with a session file if it's available
* Change: Tell Chrome to avoid using Javascript so we get the old form

05-25-18
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* Change: Added headers to all calls to look like less of a bot
* Bugfix: Wrapped a problem area when inspecting the forms in a page
* Bugfix: Handled setup error for Python3

04-29-18
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* Feature: Allow users to setup exact match queries
* Change: Added support for Python3
* Bugfix: Removed extra calls causing an error in the decrypt process

04-26-18
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* Feature: Added a command line utility to the code for easy testing
* Bugfix: Removed clobbering error inside of delete routine