Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025
Are you bored with sending birthday wishes to your friends or do you forget to send wishes to your friends or do you want to wish them at 12 AM but you always fall asleep? Why not automate this simple task by writing a Python script.
The first thing we do is import six libraries:
Apart from this, Also create an Excel sheet for containing records like this: Name, Email, Contact, Birthday, and Year.
Approach:
Below is the implementation:
Python
# import required packages
import pandas as pd
import datetime
import smtplib
import time
import requests
from win10toast import ToastNotifier
# your gmail credentials here
GMAIL_ID = 'your_email_here'
GMAIL_PWD = 'your_password_here'
# for desktop notification
toast = ToastNotifier()
# define a function for sending email
def sendEmail(to, sub, msg):
# connection to gmail
gmail_obj = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
# starting the session
gmail_obj.starttls()
# login using credentials
gmail_obj.login(GMAIL_ID, GMAIL_PWD)
# sending email
gmail_obj.sendmail(GMAIL_ID, to,
f"Subject : {sub}\n\n{msg}")
# quit the session
gmail_obj.quit()
print("Email sent to " + str(to) + " with subject "
+ str(sub) + " and message :" + str(msg))
toast.show_toast("Email Sent!" ,
f"{name} was sent e-mail",
threaded = True,
icon_path = None,
duration = 6)
while toast.notification_active():
time.sleep(0.1)
# define a function for sending sms
def sendsms(to, msg, name, sub):
url = "https://www.fast2sms.com/dev/bulk"
payload = f"sender_id=FSTSMS&message={msg}&language=english&route=p&numbers={to}"
headers = {
'authorization': "API_KEY_HERE",
'Content-Type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
'Cache-Control': "no-cache",
}
response_obj = requests.request("POST", url,
data = payload,
headers = headers)
print(response_obj.text)
print("SMS sent to " + str(to) + " with subject :" +
str(sub) + " and message :" + str(msg))
toast.show_toast("SMS Sent!" ,
f"{name} was sent message",
threaded = True,
icon_path = None,
duration = 6)
while toast.notification_active():
time.sleep(0.1)
# driver code
if __name__=="__main__":
# read the excel sheet having all the details
dataframe = pd.read_excel("excelsheet.xlsx")
# today date in format : DD-MM
today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d-%m")
# current year in format : YY
yearNow = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y")
# writeindex list
writeInd = []
for index,item in dataframe.iterrows():
msg = "Many Many Happy Returns of the day dear " + str(item['NAME'])
# stripping the birthday in excel
# sheet as : DD-MM
bday = item['Birthday'].strftime("%d-%m")
# condition checking
if (today == bday) and yearNow not in str(item['Year']):
# calling the sendEmail function
sendEmail(item['Email'], "Happy Birthday",
msg)
# calling the sendsms function
sendsms(item['Contact'], msg, item['NAME'],
"Happy Birthday")
writeInd.append(index)
for i in writeInd:
yr = dataframe.loc[i,'Year']
# this will record the years in which
# email has been sent
dataframe.loc[i,'Year'] = str(yr) + ',' + str(yearNow)
dataframe.to_excel('excelsheet.xlsx',
index = False)
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