Runs word of the day

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달리다 run (verb)

여자는 해변에서 달리고 있습니다.
The woman is running on the beach.

남자가 달리고 있습니다.
The man is running.

여자가 트랙에서 달리고 있다.
The woman is running on the track.

여자가 트랙에서 달린다.
The woman runs on the track.

여자가 트랙에서 달렸다.
The woman ran on the track.

운동화를 신고 달리다
run in sneakers

해변을 달리다
run on the beach

트랙에서 달리다
run on a track

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Due to the current Coronavirus situation all of us are doing more work online. For effective collaboration, good written communication skills have become the need of the hour. Taking this into account I decided to build a service that sends a new word, along with its definition, each day as an SMS notification.

This tutorial will show you how to create a service that sends you a new word every day using the Twilio Programmable Messaging APIs, Python and Heroku. Below you can see the notifications that come on my smart phone each day.

word of the day demo

Tutorial Requirements

To follow this you need the following components:

  • Python 3.6 or newer. If your operating system does not provide a Python interpreter, you can go to python.org to download an installer.
  • A smartphone with an active phone number and SMS capability.
  • A Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio create a free account now. You can review the features and limitations of a free Twilio account.

Create a Python Virtual Environment

Let us start by creating the directory where our project will live. Inside your terminal enter:

$ mkdir word-notifier
$ cd word-notifier

Following best practices we are going to create a virtual environment where we will install our Python dependencies.

If you are using a UNIX or MacOS system, open a terminal and enter the following commands to do the tasks mentioned above.

$ python3 -m venv word-notifier-venv
$ source word-notifier-venv/bin/activate
(word-notifier-venv) $ pip install twilio requests python-dotenv 

For those of you following the tutorial on Windows, enter the following commands in a command prompt window:

$ python -m venv word-notifier-venv
$ word-notifier-venvscriptsactivate
(word-notifier-venv) $ pip install twilio requests python-dotenv

In the command above, venv is a Python module that creates virtual environments. The word-notifier-venv argument is the name of the virtual environment we created. The last command uses pip, the Python package installer, to install the packages that we are going to use in this project, which are:

  • Twilio Python Helper Library, to send messages using the Twilio service.
  • The Requests package to access the third-party APIs
  • The Dotenv package to load environment variables from a .env file.

For your reference, at the time this tutorial was released these were the versions of the above packages and their dependencies tested:

certifi==2020.6.20
chardet==3.0.4
idna==2.10
PyJWT==1.7.1
python-dotenv==0.14.0
pytz==2020.1
requests==2.24.0
six==1.15.0
twilio==6.44.2
urllib3==1.25.10

Next we are going to write the list of packages and dependencies installed in the virtual environment to a requirements.txt file, as we will need this later in the tutorial. To do this, run the following command:

(word-notifier-venv) $ pip freeze > requirements.txt

Configuring Twilio Programmable Messaging

This is where we make sure you have a Twilio phone number activated. Log onto the Twilio Console to view your Active Numbers. Click on the number you want to use to view the details. If you haven’t purchased a number yet, learn how to search for and buy a Twilio phone number. Note that if you are using a trial account you will be using your Twilio trial credits for this purchase.

Twilio phone numbers

We’ll now create a .env file (note the leading dot) to save the secret credentials and other configuration options. Add the following variables to your .env file. These are going to be used by our application to be able to authenticate and send SMS.

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=<your Twilio Account SID>
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=<your Twilio Auth Token>
TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER=<your purchased Twilio phone number>
RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER=<your own phone number>

For the TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN variables, you can obtain the values that apply to your account from the Twilio Console.

Twilio Account SID and Auth Token

The TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER variable must be set to the Twilio number that you purchased. This is going to be the number that is sending the SMS. The RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER variable should be set to the number on which you want to receive the SMS notifications. Both phone numbers need to be given in the E.164 format.

Setting up the Wordnik API

To get a word of the day we will use the Wordnik API, for which we require an API access key. Follow the steps below to get the API key.

1. Sign Up on the Wordnik platform. After signing up, you’ll receive an email from Wordnik to verify your account.

Create Wordnik account

2. Once the account is verified, log in to request the Wordnik API key. On the Wordnik dashboard, click on your username and select the settings option from the dropdown as shown in the image below.

Wordnik settings

3. Go to the bottom of the settings page. Just below “Wordnik API Key” there is a link to the developers page, where you can request a key.

Wordnik settings page

4. On the developer page there is a sign up form. You need to submit the sign up form, and you’ll receive the API keys through email in up to a few days. Don’t worry about the delay in getting the key, you’ll be able to complete this project using a fake word of the day while you wait for your key.

Request Wordnik API key

If you already have the Wordnik API key, you can add it to your .env file:

WORDNIK_API_KEY=<your wordnik API key>

If you are waiting to receive the key, you can leave this variable set to an empty value until you receive it:

Create the Python web service

The Word Notifier application we are going to build is split into 2 functions:

  • get_word_of_the_day — helps in querying the data source and fetching a new word every day based on the current date.
  • send_sms — helps in communicating with the Twilio Programmable Messaging API to deliver an SMS to the receiver’s phone.

In the following sections we’ll develop the application.

Importing the dependencies

Create a new file app.py inside of your project directory with the following code that imports all our dependencies:

import os
import json
from datetime import date
import requests
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from twilio.rest import Client

Imports in the code snippet:

  • os — Part of the Python standard library. We’ll use it to read environment variables.
  • json — Part of the Python standard library. We’ll use it to convert JSON data to a Python dictionary.
  • date — Part of the Python standard library. We’ll use it to get the current date.
  • requests — A Python HTTP client library. We’ll use it to query the Wordnik API and get the word of the day.
  • load_dotenv — This function imports all the variables stored in the .env file into the environment.
  • twilio.rest.Client — This is the Twilio Client library to access the Twilio Programmable SMS API.

Reading environment variables

Next we are going to read all the environment variables that we stored in the .env file. Add the following code at the bottom of app.py:

load_dotenv()

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = os.getenv("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID")
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = os.getenv("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")
TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER = os.getenv("TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER")
RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER = os.getenv("RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER")
WORDNIK_API_KEY = os.getenv("WORDNIK_API_KEY")

The load_dotenv() function imports the contents of the .env file into the environment, and the os.getenv() function then reads individual variables from the environment. We assign each environment variable to a variable of the same name in the application.

Getting the Word of the Day

Following the Wordnik documentation, to get the word of the day we have to send a request to the https://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/wordOfTheDay URL with two parameters given in the query string:

  • date is the requested day, given in the format YYYY-MM-DD
  • api_key is the Wordnik API key.

Below you can see the implementation of the first of our two functions, get_word_of_the_day. Add this code at the bottom of app.py.

def get_word_of_the_day(current_date):
    """
    Fetch word of the day from the Wordnik API
    """
    response_data = {"word": "Sorry, No new word today", "definition": "No definition available"}
    if WORDNIK_API_KEY:
        url = f"https://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/wordOfTheDay?date={current_date}" 
              f"&api_key={WORDNIK_API_KEY}"
        response = requests.get(url)
        api_response = json.loads(response.text)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            response_data["word"] = api_response["word"]
            for definition in api_response["definitions"]:
                response_data["definition"] = definition["text"]
                break
    else:
        # use a mock word if there is no Wordnik API key
        response_data["word"] = "mesmerizing"
        response_data["definition"] = "capturing one's attention as if by magic"
    return response_data

If the Wordnik API key is an empty string we use a mock word and word definition. If the API key is present, then we send a GET request to the API. If the API call is successful we update the default values of word and definition in the response_data dictionary.

The Wordnik API response includes a word key, which contains the word of the day. The response includes a list of definitions for this word in a list from different sources. We are using only the first definition.

Below is the example usage of this function from a Python shell:

>> from datetime import date
>> from app import get_word_of_the_day
>> current_date = date.today()
>> get_word_of_the_day(current_date)
{'word': 'zaitech', 'definition': 'Application of financial engineering techniques in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.'}

Sending messages with Twilio

The primary aim of writing this web service is to be able to send SMS notifications with a new word and its definition every day to your smartphone.

In the next code snippet we will authenticate the Twilio client and define the function send_sms. Add this function at the end of app.py.

def send_sms(response_data):
    """
    Send SMS notification with New word
    """
    client = Client(TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN)
    body = response_data["word"] + "nn" + response_data["definition"]
    message = client.messages.create(
        body=body,
        from_=TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER,
        to=RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER
    )

Notes on the send_sms function:

1. We authenticate the Client object using the TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN.

2. The body variable contains the new word along with its definition, formatted as a string.

3. Using the client.messages.create function we create the message that will be delivered. The body, from_ and to arguments define the message, the sender and the recipient respectively.

Now that our two functions are implemented we can invoke them one after another to obtain the word of the day and send the SMS with it. Add the following code at the bottom of app.py to make these calls:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    current_date = date.today()
    data = get_word_of_the_day(current_date)
    send_sms(data)

Everything together

Now, we have seen all aspects of the implementation. Let us integrate all the pieces and create the complete web service. If you haven’t built the application yet, you can copy the code below to the app.py file. You can also use the code listing as a reference if you have been building the application incrementally.

import os
import json
from datetime import date
import requests
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from twilio.rest import Client

load_dotenv()

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = os.getenv("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID")
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = os.getenv("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")
TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER = os.getenv("TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER")
RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER = os.getenv("RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER")
WORDNIK_API_KEY = os.getenv("WORDNIK_API_KEY")


def get_word_of_the_day(current_date):
    """
    Fetch word of the day from the Wordnik API
    """
    response_data = {"word": "Sorry, No new word today", "definition": "No definition available"}
    if WORDNIK_API_KEY:
        url = f"https://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/wordOfTheDay?date={current_date}" 
              f"&api_key={WORDNIK_API_KEY}"
        response = requests.get(url)
        api_response = json.loads(response.text)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            response_data["word"] = api_response["word"]
            for definition in api_response["definitions"]:
                response_data["definition"] = definition["text"]
                break
    else:
        # use a mock word if there is no Wordnik API key
        response_data["word"] = "mesmerizing"
        response_data["definition"] = "capturing one's attention as if by magic"
    return response_data


def send_sms(response_data):
    """
    Send SMS notification with New word
    """
    client = Client(TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN)
    body = response_data["word"] + "nn" + response_data["definition"]
    message = client.messages.create(
        body=body,
        from_=TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER,
        to=RECEIVER_PHONE_NUMBER
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    current_date = date.today()
    data = get_word_of_the_day(current_date)
    send_sms(data)

Running the application

To start the application, run the following command from the terminal:

After the application finishes, check your smartphone. You should receive a SMS notification with the word of the day and its definition. Note that if you are running the application while you are waiting to receive your API key from Wordnik, then you will always get the same word. Once you receive the key you can add it to your `.env` file to start getting real words.

Schedule the application to run daily

In this final part of the tutorial we are going to deploy the application to Heroku and configure it to run automatically every day.

Create a local Git repository

Make sure you have git configured on your terminal. You can follow these steps to configure git. Then run the following command to initialize your working directory to a local git repository:

Next, you can add your project files and commit the changes to git.

git add app.py requirements.txt 
git commit -m "word notifier source code"

Deploying the application on Heroku

We’ll be now deploying and scheduling our web service on Heroku. Create a free account on the Heroku web site, and then setup the Heroku CLI by following the steps mentioned in the official documentation.

Create an application on Heroku by running the following command on the terminal:

heroku create word-notifier

Note that you may need to pick a different name than word-notifier, as the application names have to be unique. When you create the app, a git remote (called Heroku) is also created and associated with your local git repository.

Now deploy your code to Heroku by pushing your code to this remote:

Finally, we need to define the environment variables that we have in our .env file so that they are also available on Heroku. Go to your Heroku application dashboard, select the application and then click on “Settings”. Then click on “Reveal Config Vars”.

Add the five environment variables that you have defined in the .env file:

heroku dashboard

You can now test the deployment. Run the application using the command below:

When the application finishes you’ll receive the SMS notification on your mobile phone.

Scheduling the web service on Heroku

We are now going to schedule the deployed application so that it runs everyday at a given time.

Install the Heroku Scheduler add-on. Note that even though this add-on is offered for free, Heroku requires the account to be verified by entering credit card details before you can install it. Once installed, the scheduler add-on will be visible in your app dashboard, under the “Resources” tab.

heroku scheduler

To schedule the web service to run every day click on “Heroku Scheduler” under “Resources”. You can set a time according to your preference in the scheduler dashboard.

heroku scheduler configuration

Once the time is set, the application will run according to this schedule, and each time it runs an SMS with the current word of the day will be delivered to your phone.

word of the day demo

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have created a Python web service that sends a Word of the Day SMS notification each day at the scheduled time. This was implemented using Python and Twilio API for Programmable Messaging. The service is deployed and scheduled on Heroku. The data for fetching a new “Word of the Day” and its definition was fetched from the Wordnik API. The GitHub repository with the complete source code can be found here.

Mridu Bhatnagar

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Github: https://github.com/mridubhatnagar
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mridu__

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走る (はしる) run (verb)

その女性は、浜辺を走っている。
そのじょせいは、はまべをはしっている。
The woman is running on the beach.

男性が走っています。
だんせいがはしっています。
The man is running.

女の人がトラックを走っている。
おんなのひとがトラックをはしっている。
The woman is running on the track.

女の人がトラックを走る。
おんなのひとがトラックをはしる。
The woman runs on the track.

女の人がトラックを走った。
おんなのひとがトラックをはしった。
The woman ran on the track.

スニーカーで走る
スニーカーではしる
run in sneakers

ビーチを走る
ビーチをはしる
run on the beach

トラックを走る
トラックをはしる
run on a track

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the area around or near a place


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like an oracle in solemnity, or in having wise or divine insight


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a minor flaw or shortcoming


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showing or suggesting that future success is likely


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to limit the size or amount of something


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ambiguous or difficult to understand


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a ceremonial dinner held on Passover


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to divide into political units giving one group unfair advantage

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    riposte

  • Aug 10

    trivial

  • Aug 11

    alleviate

  • Aug 12

    melancholia

  • Aug 13

    carceral

  • Aug 14

    shard

  • Aug 15

    dilatory

  • Aug 16

    litany

  • Aug 17

    wreak

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    immutable

  • Aug 19

    charisma

  • Aug 20

    unabashed

  • Aug 21

    epitome

  • Aug 22

    rash

  • Aug 23

    abrogate

  • Aug 24

    glitch

  • Aug 25

    overwhelm

  • Aug 26

    vociferous

  • Aug 27

    sensibility

  • Aug 28

    devolve

  • Aug 29

    jaunty

  • Aug 30

    effulgence

  • Aug 31

    brandish


July 2022

  • Jul 01

    debunk

  • Jul 02

    apposite

  • Jul 03

    teem

  • Jul 04

    Yankee

  • Jul 05

    cantankerous

  • Jul 06

    recidivism

  • Jul 07

    inscrutable

  • Jul 08

    postulate

  • Jul 09

    behemoth

  • Jul 10

    gibbous

  • Jul 11

    carp

  • Jul 12

    eccentric

  • Jul 13

    saga

  • Jul 14

    validate

  • Jul 15

    akimbo

  • Jul 16

    nuance

  • Jul 17

    finicky

  • Jul 18

    sanction

  • Jul 19

    emolument

  • Jul 20

    waggish

  • Jul 21

    iconoclast

  • Jul 22

    muse

  • Jul 23

    conscientious

  • Jul 24

    pathos

  • Jul 25

    extradite

  • Jul 26

    Luddite

  • Jul 27

    apropos

  • Jul 28

    ostentatious

  • Jul 29

    brouhaha

  • Jul 30

    ineffable

  • Jul 31

    menagerie


June 2022

  • Jun 01

    behest

  • Jun 02

    meld

  • Jun 03

    perfunctory

  • Jun 04

    decry

  • Jun 05

    fidelity

  • Jun 06

    sumptuous

  • Jun 07

    vocation

  • Jun 08

    arrogate

  • Jun 09

    evanescent

  • Jun 10

    lout

  • Jun 11

    headlong

  • Jun 12

    burgle

  • Jun 13

    panacea

  • Jun 14

    festoon

  • Jun 15

    credulous

  • Jun 16

    adulation

  • Jun 17

    oblige

  • Jun 18

    redolent

  • Jun 19

    emancipation

  • Jun 20

    garrulous

  • Jun 21

    prescience

  • Jun 22

    quibble

  • Jun 23

    ingenuous

  • Jun 24

    confidant

  • Jun 25

    noisome

  • Jun 26

    culminate

  • Jun 27

    jingoism

  • Jun 28

    fulsome

  • Jun 29

    duress

  • Jun 30

    scintillate


May 2022

  • May 01

    leviathan

  • May 02

    piggyback

  • May 03

    schmooze

  • May 04

    abeyance

  • May 05

    fractious

  • May 06

    mollify

  • May 07

    sagacious

  • May 08

    darling

  • May 09

    orientate

  • May 10

    conclave

  • May 11

    ramshackle

  • May 12

    bloviate

  • May 13

    turpitude

  • May 14

    verdant

  • May 15

    hark back

  • May 16

    epithet

  • May 17

    nonpareil

  • May 18

    indoctrinate

  • May 19

    kibosh

  • May 20

    ad hoc

  • May 21

    paradox

  • May 22

    galumph

  • May 23

    mercurial

  • May 24

    dander

  • May 25

    benevolent

  • May 26

    fetter

  • May 27

    uncanny

  • May 28

    propagate

  • May 29

    junket

  • May 30

    commemorate

  • May 31

    ephemeral


April 2022

  • Apr 01

    predilection

  • Apr 02

    convoluted

  • Apr 03

    exculpate

  • Apr 04

    salient

  • Apr 05

    adversity

  • Apr 06

    grift

  • Apr 07

    druthers

  • Apr 08

    mettlesome

  • Apr 09

    construe

  • Apr 10

    liaison

  • Apr 11

    zoomorphic

  • Apr 12

    funambulism

  • Apr 13

    bemuse

  • Apr 14

    opportune

  • Apr 15

    vanguard

  • Apr 16

    timeless

  • Apr 17

    resurrection

  • Apr 18

    elicit

  • Apr 19

    polyglot

  • Apr 20

    imprimatur

  • Apr 21

    juxtapose

  • Apr 22

    simulacrum

  • Apr 23

    askance

  • Apr 24

    deem

  • Apr 25

    hoary

  • Apr 26

    minion

  • Apr 27

    cerebral

  • Apr 28

    salt junk

  • Apr 29

    flummox

  • Apr 30

    nefarious


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