Functionality

Input

1. Reads contacts from contacts/contacts.csv
2. Gets and encodes pictures from images/ (if there is no image - takes default one)
3. Gets the email template with styling from templates/email_template.html
4. Gets the matching history with previous matching from contacts/partner_history.json

Processing

1. Loops through all contacts and generates random matches
2. checks if the matches exist in contacts/partner_history.json
3. if yes: repeats step 1 & 2

if the script cant find unique matches for 30 secs it stopps and informs the user that the history has to be cleared, because all matches were previously made

Output

1. sends emails to unique matches to inform them about their partner (using name, email and image)
2. updates matching history

requirements

Check if python is installed

python3 --version

Install pillow

pip install pillow

important

• images have to be .jpeg to be encoded correctly!
• make sure to have no empty lines in the .csv file
• the ID of the person in the .csv has to be the filename of the persons image

Example

contacts/contacts.csv

ID,email,Name
1,test.test@email.net,Max Muster

images/1.jpeg --> Picture of Max Muster