How to use Mandrill to send email report in Scrapy Spidermon

Question

Currently, Scrapy Spidermon extension only shows an example to send email using Amazon Simple Email Service. Is it possible to use Mandrill instead? And how?

Answer 1

You will have to write your own "Mandril Send Email" class.

Use SendSESEmail as a start point, but instead of handling AWS keys, you use your credentials for Mandrill.

You send_message should look something like this:

def send_message(self, message):
    s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.mandrillapp.com', 587)
    s.login(MANDRILL_USERNAME, MANDRILL_PASSWORD)
    s.send_message(message)

(based on this snippet: https://mandrill.com/#script-python)

Hope it helps you.