sodexo

Sodexo

I made this small web-application mainly because I would rather open a simple webpage than open the Gmail application, select the desired label, open the latest email and download the attached PDF file.

How it works

Every morning the restaurant staff sends an email to subscribers with the menu for the day. Retrieving the information from the email as described above is tedious and not easily shared with colleagues or friends.
A cron entry ensures the import script runs every hour and performs the following steps

connects to imap.google.com with an app password
retrieves any new messages with the Sodexo label
for every new message it downloads the attachment (PDF)
converts the attachment to PNG using ImageMagick's convert

The web part of the application simply shows the latest PNG downloaded.

Access

You can view the live version here.

Notes

Since the the application has all the menus for over 400 days some stats would be interesting.