Schedule Daily Emails with GitHub Actions, Gmail, & Cron
Learn how to create and automate sending a daily report email using Gmail and GitHub Actions. We'll walk through setting up a node.js app from scratch, using Gmail as an SMTP server, automating running our mail send script with GitHub Actions, along with adding the weather with the AccuWeather API and a Gif with the Tenor API.
🧐 What's Inside
00:00 - Intro to Daily Email Report
00:19 - Tools we'll use including Gmail, GitHub Actions, Accuweather API, and Tenor API
01:31 - Starting a new node.js project with npm init
02:12 - Creating a node script
03:15 - Installing nodemailer and configuring the Gmail SMTP server
05:28 - Setting up a Google App Password to use for sending authenticated mail with Gmail
07:32 - Configuring email to send with nodemailer and testing sending an email
09:27 - Using dotenv to set up environment variables to secure sensitive data
12:17 - Automating sending the daily report email using GitHub Actions
18:48 - Adding the local forecast with the AccuWeather API
32:02 - Adding a Gif of the Day using the Tenor API
40:04 - Outro
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Google App Passwords
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Gmail SMTP Settings
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AccuWeather API
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Tenor API
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