linebot-routine-pusher

• Simple LINE bot reminders for daily basis using Python.

  • Using LINE Messaging API and implementation of Push notifications

• This programs intends to remind some tasks in daily basis, such as:

  • Times of dog walking in morning / afternoon / night
  • Times when you should take some medicine
  • ...etc

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Environments

Python : 3.6.4
pyenv : 1.2.15
line-bot-sdk : 1.15.0

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Pre-requirements

• Install required packages

  • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  • or just execute pip3 install line-bot-sdk
  • In case if you use pyenv for independent package managements in the repository, run python -m venv YOUR_ENV_NAME first.

• Add LINE bot as your LINE friends

  • To receive push message from the bot, you shold add the bot as LINE friends.
  • There are some ways to add bot to your friends:
    • Register with QR codes
    • Register with LINE-ID
  • Notice that this is the pre-requirements by default with using LINE.

Getting message from the bot

• Before running the programs on your environments, you should configure the parameters to allow the programs to determine the target channel.

  • For ensure security, the parameters should be retrieved from environmental variables on your machine or servers.

• Set environmental variables: LINE_ACCESS_TOKEN and LINE_USER_ID

  • LINE_ACCESS_TOKEN
    • An identifer for determine which bot should be run on the providers
  • LINE_USER_ID
    • The user ID to push message
    • Note that this ID is different from LINE ID for exchanging your account with your friend.
      • You can check the provider settings on LINE Developers account https://developers.line.biz
  • Again, be sure to store these parameters as environmental variables instead of hard-coding on your programs.

• Run programs on any environments

  • python3 run.py
    • For virtualenv, source YOUR_ENV_NAME/bin/activate ; python3 ./run.py
  • Check push notifications from the accounts reached

• If you'd like to run this programs permanently, you can simply run with OS functionalities:

  • nohup python3 run.py &

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Licensing

• As source of this program line-bot-sdk aligns to Apache 2.0 Licenses, all of source codes in this repository would do same as the source.
  • Souce codes in this repository are licensed under the Apache License 2.0