Netflix Location Updater is an easy to use python script to automatically fetch the location update Email from an Email mailbox and click the confirmation link in it. Script can easily run on a Raspberry Pi.
- Automatically polling of Email mailbox for given polling intervall
- Netflix Email fetching and automatically household confirmation
- Moving the Netflix Email into a separate subfolder of mailbox
- Logging file with info and error messages
Basic installation instruction
As the script uses selenium to interact with the browser, the chromedriver is needed. Please download the correct chromedriver for your current Chrome version from here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads Specify the path to the chromedriver executable in the config.ini file.
Alternatively, the chromedriver-py package can be used to automatically download the latest chromedriver. To do so, set the UseChromedriverPy = True option in the config.ini file.
To install all dependencies, simply install the requirements first:
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Make sure to fill out the config.ini file with the correct parameters for the Email mailbox, first!
To run the script, simply execute the following command:
python netflix_household_update.py
The script will run in an infinite loop and polls the Email mailbox with the default polling time of 2 seconds. The script can be aborted by pressing Ctrl+C
To start the script at the startup of Raspberry Pi, crontab can be used. For the following commands, it is assumed that the default user pi exists. If not, replace the username with the correct one' The easiest way ist to use SSH connection and execute the following commands:
cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/f1shl/netflix-household-update.git
cd netflix-household-update
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
Now update all the parameters in the config.ini with your own Email provider data. Start the script and check if it runs without errors. If everything works, break with CTRL+C
Edit crontab:
crontab -e
Select nano as editor. Go to the end of the file and add the following line:
@reboot /home/pi/netflix-household-update/netflix-household-update-launcher.sh &
Save with CTRL+X, Y and finally press Return Now restart the Raspberry Pi:
sudo reboot
The script should now be started after each startup and runs in an infinite loop.
