naver-cafe-auto-email

Naver is currently the biggest search engine in South Korea. Naver Cafe platform is a platform that allows its members to share common ideas by posting their thoughts. This Django web application scrapes Naver IDs of members registered for a certain Cafe and sends emails to the members.

Prerequisites

pip install requirements.txt

Instructions

*Set .secrets folder at the same level as account and config folders *Add secrets.json file to the folder *The json file should resemble something like below

{
  "SECRET_KEY": "**************************************'"
}

*Run it on local server

python manage.py runserver

Usage

*Cafe Search View The search bar accepts an url of Naver Cafes and the url is used to scrape the IDs. Then, the view creates Account objects, using the Ids.

*Cafe List View This view contains both email send form and list of Naver Cafe urls. When all the components of the email sending for mis filled out, by clicking a submit button below each url, you can sned emails to members of a designated Cafe via SMTP. Clicking one of the hyperlinked url will redirect you to another view that shows the list of Naver IDs.

Limitations

• This application uses selenium module when scraping the Naver IDs so it takes quite a bit of time when attempting to scrape multiple post board pages.

Built With

• Pycharm
• Django

Authors

• Jae Hyun Moon