Rick-Roll

Before getting started, I'd suggest you to read my Medium article to get a better picture - https://medium.com/p/165d26c950b6

Disclaimer- This demonstration is for educational purposes only. The contents of this repository should not be used to perform any harmful activities.

Prerequisites

• Clone the repository into your local system
• Install dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a gmail account and a GCP project on the same id.
• Create an Oauth client and generate client secrets file, you can refer this video.
• Add the same gmail id as test user in the OAuth Consent Screen.
• Save the json as client_secrets.json into both the folders.
• Create a firestore database and add two collections users and troll as shown below.
• Download the service account key for firestore and save it as serviceAccountKey.json into both the folders.

Data Cleaning and Upload

• Add the list of names and the corresponding e-mails of users whom you want to troll in user_data.csv and then run data_clean.py
• This will generate users_list.csv file, copy it into the Flask App folder as well.
• Now, to upload this user data to firestore, run upload_users.py

Modify and host Flask App

• In app.py modify the emailMsg variable as per your requirement, and edit the sender_email and sender_name accordingly.
• Host the Flask app folder on AWS Beanstalk, here's a good tutorial.
• After hosting the Flask app successfully on AWS, copy the server url into the .env file of both the folders as HOST_URL variable. This link will be embedded in the email message body.
• After modifying the env file, update Beanstalk with new source.

Sending out Initial set of e-mails

• In mail_file.py modify the emailMsg variable as per your requirement, and edit the sender_email and sender_name accordingly.
• You can also add an image attachment by replacing the attachment_image.png
• Now you're all set to send out the initial set of e-mails.
• Run the mail_file.py and send a mail to another account for testing. The first time, you will be redirected to an external URL, complete that Auth using the e-mail id you added as test user in the OAuth consent screen.
• On successful authentication, you will see that token files will be saved in the current directory.
• Run the file again, but this time for all the users present in users_list.csv
• If the script is running successfully, you will be able to see the message printed in the console for each e-mail sent out.
• Now you can just sit back and relax.
• You can open the /list endpoint of your aws beanstalk server to see the list of people who have been rick rolled.