Hourly XML Email Reports

This script is similar to Hourly Email Reports, but this script does no formatting at all. It sends the pure data that it gets from XML Access Option, for machine analysis by the receiver.

All that is needed to make this work in most environments is editing of these three lines:

server = 'youremailserverhere'
mailfrom = 'youremailhere'
mailto = 'youremailhere'

For environments that require addtional security on email, there is rich support available in the standard libraries included with the Python scripting language.

Python 3 Source Code

# Python includes a rich set of options for sending email - this is a simple example
#
# Richer and more-beautifully formatted reports are also possible
#
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import datetime
import time
import urllib.request
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# edit the following three lines to use your server and your email addresses
server = 'youremailserverhere'
mailfrom = 'youremailhere'
mailto = 'youremailhere'
printUnits = 4

wasatchSoftRIP = '127.0.0.1:80'  # just localhost in this example

def sendMail(subject, body):
	msg = MIMEText(body)
	msg['Subject'] = subject
	msg['From'] = mailfrom
	msg['To'] = mailto
	try:
		s = smtplib.SMTP(server)
		s.send_message(msg)
		s.quit()
		print("Sent mail to " + mailto)
	except:
		print("Failed to send mail")

def getReport(printUnit):
    url = 'http://' + wasatchSoftRIP + '/xmlQueueStatus.dyn?PRINTUNIT=' + str(printUnit)
    try:
        p = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
        mybytes = p.read()  
        p.close()
    except:
        return str("Could not open " + url)

xmlRoot = ET.fromstring(mybytes.decode("utf-8")) # parse the XML retured by SoftRIP
    return mybytes.decode("utf-8")
    
#
# get system identity
#
url = 'http://' + wasatchSoftRIP + '/xmlSystem.dyn'
identity = 'Identity Unknown'
try:
    p = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    mybytes = p.read()  
    p.close()
    xmlRoot = ET.fromstring(mybytes.decode("utf-8")) # parse the XML retured by SoftRIP
    if xmlRoot.tag == 'SYSTEM':
        identity = 'Wasatch SoftRIP Serial Number: ' + xmlRoot.attrib['sn']
except:
    print("Could not open " + url)

#
# loop forever, emailing hourly reports on all print units
#
lastHour = -1 # this initial value will cause the first report to be sent immediatly
while True:
#while psutil.Process().parent():  # loop as long as parent process exists - use this when launching a child of SoftRIP shell
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    if now.hour != lastHour: # report every hour on the hour
        lastHour = now.hour
        body = ''
        for p in range(1, printUnits+1):
            body += getReport(p)
        sendMail(identity, body)
        #print(body) # for debugging
                                
    time.sleep(10) # sleep ten seconds