Sending a Html file via python

Question

I have a test.html file that I want to send via email(I am refering about the page content). Is there a way for getting the information from the html and sending it as a email? If you have any other ideas please share.

Answer 1

Here's a quick and dirty script I just wrote which might be what you're looking for.

https://gist.github.com/1790847

"""
this is a quick and dirty script to send HTML email - emphasis on dirty :)
python emailpage.py http://www.sente.cc
made to answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9226719/sending-a-html-file-via-python
Stuart Powers
"""
import lxml.html
import smtplib
import sys
import os


page = sys.argv[1]  #the webpage to send

root = lxml.html.parse(page).getroot()
root.make_links_absolute()

content = lxml.html.tostring(root)

message = """From: Stuart Powers <[email protected]>
To: Stuart Powers <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Subject: %s

%s""" %(page, content)


smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.login("[email protected]",os.environ["GPASS"])
smtpserver.sendmail('[email protected]', ['[email protected]'], message)

Answer 2

There are many ways of reading files in python and there are also ways to send emails in python. Why don't you look up the documentation and come back with some coding error ?

• Sending emails in python: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html

• Reading files in python: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html