Birthday reminder

How many times have you forgotten one of your friend's, family member's or girlfriend/boyfriend's birthday ?
Surveys have shown that approximately a third of the population have at least one time forgotten their partner's bithday. It is even more for friends and family members.
I am sure that you, who is reading this text, have also done it at least one time.
So you are aware of this problem. The disappointement in the other's eyes, the sadness and sometimes worse, the long arguments because you forgot to buy a present or prepare something.

I SAY NO MORE

NEVER FORGET A BIRTHDAY AGAIN : HOW ?

We will be using IFTTT's Webhooks to build the API and then we can code it

Create a new IFTTT applet and click on "+this" to select your trigger
Search and select "Webhooks"
Click on the "Connect" button (this should appear only the first time using Webhooks)
Click on "Receive a web request"
Name your event "birthday_reminder" then click on "Create Trigger"
Click on "+that" to select the action to accomplish
Type and select "Email" (not "Email Digest")
Click on "Send me an email"
Click on "Create action" (whitout modifying anything)
Click on "Finish"

CODING THE AUTOMATIC REMINDER

The user has to give a list of birthdays and a list of names

In order for the API to check every day the birthday list, the script must be runned every day. Therefore, we use an online cronjob such as Webcron that runs the program every day.
With a price of 0.0005eur a day, it only cost approximately 0.19eur per year never to forget a birthday again !

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