* Add TODO from external app?
@ 2014-04-01 15:41 Lawrence Bottorff
2014-04-01 17:08 ` Anthony Lander
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From: Lawrence Bottorff @ 2014-04-01 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external apps.
I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article. Per the
tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an email or a
PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external file
manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org file and
concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are there more
sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from without?
LB
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* Re: Add TODO from external app?
2014-04-01 15:41 Add TODO from external app? Lawrence Bottorff
@ 2014-04-01 17:08 ` Anthony Lander
2014-04-02 3:07 ` Jeff Kowalski
2014-04-16 16:31 ` Bastien
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Anthony Lander @ 2014-04-01 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lawrence Bottorff, Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Mode
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Hi Lawrence,
Here is a Python script I use to scrape TODOs from emails. I haven't
polished it up and put it on github yet, but you are welcome to give it a
whirl (anyone else is too, obviously). You need python 2.5 or greater to
run this. Configure by modifying the variables at the top of the file.
Carsten: If you think this is a worthwhile addition to contrib, I am happy
to clean it up, and write a bit of documentation for inclusion with org
mode.
Hope this helps,
-Anthony
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>wrote:
> I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external apps.
> I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article. Per the
> tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an email or a
> PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external file
> manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org file and
> concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are there more
> sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from without?
>
> LB
>
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# todo-email-scraper.py - Watch an email address for TODOs and add them to an org file
#
# Copyright (c) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# Authors:
# Anthony Lander <anthony.lander@gmail.com>
#
# Version: 1.0
# Keywords: org, todo, email
#
# This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
#
# This program is free software# you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation# either version 3, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY# without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Commentary:
#
# - Email subject is the TODO line, and body is the TODO body.
# - Add a property line :TODO-TARGET: true to the parent heading where TODOs should be dropped
# - Configure email address, diary file, password below.
# - You can schedule this to run every 30 minutes in a cron job.
# - The scraper scrapes all emails from a designated address (so only you can
# - send yourself todos). as such, it is best to set up a todo email address to
# - receive only todo emails.
import sys
from os import rename
from datetime import datetime
from string import replace
import imaplib
import StringIO
from email.parser import Parser
# ### Configuration
diary_file = "/path/to/org_file.org" # Replace with your org file
server = 'imap.gmail.com' # Replace with your imap mail server
username = 'tasklist@gmail.com' # Replace with the email address that receives todos
password = 'passowrd' # Replace with the password for the above email address
authorized_sender = 'you@gmail.com' # Replace with the email address from which you send todos
def is_diary_file_available():
try:
file = open(diary_file, "r")
except IOError:
return False
file.close()
return True
def get_todos():
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(server)
imap.login(username, password)
imap.select()
search_criteria = '(UNSEEN FROM "' + authorized_sender + '")'
typ, data = imap.search(None, search_criteria)
todos = []
for num in data[0].split():
todo_subject = ""
todo_body = []
typ, data = imap.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
file = StringIO.StringIO(data[0][1])
message = Parser().parse(file)
todo_subject = message['subject']
# print message['Subject'] + "\n"
body = ""
for part in message.walk():
t = part.get_content_type()
if t and t.lower() == "text/plain":
# Found the first text/plain part
body = part.get_payload(decode=True)
break
# print ">", body, "<"
long_line = ""
for line in [line.strip() for line in body.splitlines() if len(line) > 0]:
if line[-1:] == "=":
long_line += line[:-1]
else:
if len(long_line) > 0: # There is a long line waiting to be written
# print "long line: ", long_line
todo_body.append(long_line)
long_line = ""
else:
# print "line: ", line
todo_body.append(line)
long_line = ""
if len(long_line) > 0:
# print "long line (final): ", long_line
todo_body.append(long_line)
todos.append({'subject' : todo_subject, 'body' : todo_body})
imap.close()
imap.logout()
return todos
def new_diary_lines_with_todos(todos):
try:
file = open(diary_file, "rt+")
found = False
done = False
stars = ""
timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("[%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M]")
log_lines = [":LOGBOOK:", '- State "TODO" from "" ' + timestamp, ":END:"]
lines = []
while not done:
line = file.readline()
if len(line) == 0:
done = True
else:
lines.append(line)
if not found:
if line[0] == "*":
stars = line.split()[0]
if line.strip() == ":TODO-TARGET: true":
found = True
line = ""
while not line.strip() == ":END:":
line = file.readline()
lines.append(line)
for todo in todos:
line = "%s%s%s%s" % (stars, "** TODO ", todo['subject'], "\n")
lines.append(line)
spaces = replace(stars + "** ", "*", " ")
for line in log_lines:
lines.append(spaces + line + "\n")
for line in todo['body']:
lines.append(spaces + line + "\n")
file.close()
except:
print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
file.close()
raise
return lines
def write_todo_file(filename, todos):
try:
file = open(filename, "w")
for todo in todos:
file.write(todo)
file.close()
return True
except:
print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
file.close()
raise
return False
def scrape_todos():
if not is_diary_file_available():
print "No diary file available - aborting."
sys.exit(-1)
todos = get_todos()
if len(todos) > 0:
new_lines = new_diary_lines_with_todos(todos)
try:
now = datetime.now().strftime(".%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
diary_backup = diary_file + now + ".orig"
# print "renaming", diary_file, " to ", diary_backup
rename(diary_file, diary_backup)
except:
print "Unexpected error while renaming:", sys.exc_info()[0]
raise
write_todo_file(diary_file, new_lines)
print "Added ", len(todos), " todos at ", now
if __name__ == '__main__':
scrape_todos()
sys.exit(0)
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* Re: Add TODO from external app?
2014-04-01 15:41 Add TODO from external app? Lawrence Bottorff
2014-04-01 17:08 ` Anthony Lander
@ 2014-04-02 3:07 ` Jeff Kowalski
2014-04-16 16:31 ` Bastien
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Kowalski @ 2014-04-02 3:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I use org-etml to serve pages from within emacs and use a custom capture
handler, like this:
####
(defun jeff/capture-handler (request)
"Handle REQUEST objects meant for 'org-capture'.
GET header should contain a path in form '/capture/KEY/LINK/TITLE/BODY'."
(with-slots (process headers) request
(let ((path (cdr (assoc :GET headers))))
(if (string-match "/capture:?/\\(.*\\)" path)
(progn
(org-protocol-capture (match-string 1 path))
(ws-response-header process 200))
(ws-send-404 process)))))
(setq jeff/org-ehtml-handler
'(((:GET . "/capture") . jeff/capture-handler)
((:GET . ".*") . org-ehtml-file-handler)
((:POST . ".*") . org-ehtml-edit-handler)))
(when t
(mapc (lambda (server)
(if (= 3333 (port server))
(ws-stop server)))
ws-servers)
(ws-start jeff/org-ehtml-handler 3333))
####
And the relevant org-capture looks like
####
("b" "entry.html" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory "toodledo.org")
"TASKS")
"* TODO [#C] %:description\nSCHEDULED: %t\n%:initial\n"
:immediate-finish t)
####
Then, I post from a hosted form served as entry.html via org-ehtml, like
this:
###
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<head>
<title>Org Entry</title>
</head>
<html>
<style>
input[type=text] {
-webkit-appearance: none; -moz-appearance: none;
display: block;
margin: 0;
width: 100%; height: 40px;
line-height: 40px; font-size: 17px;
border: 1px solid #bbb;
}
input[type=submit],select {
-webkit-appearance: none; -moz-appearance: none;
display: block;
margin: 0;
height: 40px;
line-height: 40px; font-size: 17px;
border: 1px solid #bbb;
}
</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<form id="target" action="/capture/b">
<input id="title" width="100%" type="text" name="title" />
<br>
<select id="context" name="context">
<option value="@agendas">@agendas</option>
<option value="@calls" >@calls </option>
<option value="@errands">@errands</option>
<option value="@home" >@home </option>
<option value="@quicken">@quicken</option>
<option value="@view" >@view </option>
<option value="@waiting">@waiting</option>
<option value="@work" >@work </option>
</select>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">
</form>
<span></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#target").submit (function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var link = encodeURIComponent("LINK");
var title = encodeURIComponent($("#title").val() + " :" +
$("#context").val() + ":");
var body = encodeURIComponent("");
var xurl = "/capture/b" + "/" + link + "/" + title + "/" + body;
$.ajax({
url: xurl
}).success(function() {
$("span").text("captured "+xurl).show().fadeOut(1000);
$("#title").val("");
$("#context").val("@agendas");
}).fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
$("span").text("failed " + xurl + "<br>" + textStatus).show();
//.fadeOut(1000);
});
});
</script>
</html>
####
Forwarding ports from my machine running org-ehtml on emacs means I can
access the page anywhere to add new tasks even from my cell phone.
You could easily call this emacs-webservice from a PHP page, but it's just
as easy to simply serve the page from emacs itself. Take a look at org-
ehtml and the companion webserver that Schulte wrote.
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* Re: Add TODO from external app?
2014-04-01 15:41 Add TODO from external app? Lawrence Bottorff
2014-04-01 17:08 ` Anthony Lander
2014-04-02 3:07 ` Jeff Kowalski
@ 2014-04-16 16:31 ` Bastien
2014-04-16 18:15 ` Tim Visher
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2014-04-16 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lawrence Bottorff; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Lawrence,
Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:
> I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external
> apps. I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article.
> Per the tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an
> email or a PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external
> file manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org
> file and concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are
> there more sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from
> without?
I'm aware of such sophisticated ways, so for now simply open a .org
file and write to it.
--
Bastien
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* Re: Add TODO from external app?
2014-04-16 16:31 ` Bastien
@ 2014-04-16 18:15 ` Tim Visher
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Tim Visher @ 2014-04-16 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Lawrence Bottorff
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Lawrence,
>
> Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external
>> apps. I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article.
>> Per the tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an
>> email or a PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external
>> file manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org
>> file and concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are
>> there more sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from
>> without?
>
> I'm aware of such sophisticated ways, so for now simply open a .org
> file and write to it.
Emacs can be used as a scripting environment so if you can figure out
how to do it from elisp that might be a more sophisticated way.
That said, one of the beauties of org is that it's just plain text and
the format for a link is pretty darn simple. So I've always just
written to the file using the format.
--
In Christ,
Timmy V.
http://blog.twonegatives.com/
http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail
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