* 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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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread* 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 [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1072 bytes --] 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 > [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1589 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: todo-email-scraper.py --] [-- Type: text/x-python-script, Size: 6476 bytes --] #!/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) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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