How to automate HoneyGain lucky pot opening with Celery

In the world of passive income, HoneyGain is a popular choice for sharing unused internet bandwidth. One of its engaging features is the Lucky Pot, which gives users a chance to win extra credits every day. However, remembering to log in and open it manually can be a chore. In this post, we'll show how to automate this process using Celery and the pyHoneygain library.

We'll use a Celery task that logs into HoneyGain, attempts to open the Lucky Pot, and sends the result via email. Here's the code for the task:

from decouple import config
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from pyHoneygain import HoneyGain
from core.celery import app

@app.task
def task_honeygain_open_lucky_pot():
    # Your HoneyGain (HG) login username and password from environment variables
    USER = config("HONEYGAIN_USER")
    PASSWORD = config("HONEYGAIN_PASSWORD")

    # Initialize the HoneyGain object
    user = HoneyGain()

    # Call the login method
    user.login(USER, PASSWORD)

    # Attempts to open Honeypot
    honeypot_information = user.open_honeypot()

    subject = "HoneyGain - lucky pot information"
    if honeypot_information["success"]:
        message = (
            f"Congratulations, you received {honeypot_information['credits']} credits!"
        )
    else:
        message = "The HoneyGain lucky pot is unavailable at the moment!"

    email = EmailMessage(
        subject, message, "sender@example.com", ["receiver@domain.com"]
    )
    email.send(fail_silently=False)
              

Scheduling with Celery Beat

Since the Lucky Pot reset time can vary slightly, we schedule the task to run twice a day to ensure we catch the availability window. We use crontab for precise scheduling:

from celery.schedules import crontab

app.conf.beat_schedule = {
    # ... other tasks ...
    "task_honeygain_open_lucky_pot": {
        "task": "frontend.tasks.task_honeygain_open_lucky_pot",
        "schedule": crontab(hour="0, 12", minute="12"),
    },
}
              

Conclusion

Automating repetitive tasks like opening the HoneyGain Lucky Pot is a perfect use case for Celery. It saves time and ensures you're maximizing your passive income with zero daily effort. Happy automating!