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Chapter: Days 65-68: Heroku and Python Platform-as-a-Service
Lecture: Heroku SendGrid addon setup
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While we're on the topic of email let's look at another add-on for Heroku called SendGrid. This is a really simple add-on, it's just sending emails
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but in a much more structured way than the Gmail way we looked at prior. This is actually more of a marketing thing so something very useful
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if you have your own little business or webstore or blog, whatever. What'd I'd like you to do is in the add-on section
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search for SendGrid and you'll see it there SendGrid right there. Install that, use the free tier, the free provision
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and then, you'll get your little button down here for SendGrid. Click on that. This will actually log you into SendGrid itself
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so it sort of redirects you away from Heroku. But the special thing is that it takes your Heroku app that you've created and uses that app
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and the login details that you've used for Heroku to create a sort of account on SendGrid and that's what you use to send your emails.
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You don't actually need to configure anything else. What you can then do, on the left is scroll down to settings, expand that out
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click on API keys, and then, create an API key. On this screen, the first thing we want to do is click on API key name here and throw it a name.
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Just come up with something random we can call it SendGrid test and then, we are going to click on full access. Now, full access allows this API key
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or anything using this key to get full access to the account. We don't care about that just for now. You can look into the restricted access
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that you may want later. For now, just to demonstrate we are going to use the full access. And scroll down and then, click on create and view.
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When you get your API key make sure you save it somewhere secure and that's why I'm not clicking the button now. Once you have it, save it
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because we are going to use that in the next video. Before we finish this video we'll bring up our actual code here our little repository of our app
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and we're going to launch the virtual environment and then, we're going to pip install SendGrid. And what we need to do is actual
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we need to push this install of SendGrid this package up to Heroku, so pip install sendgrid. And then, we can just put that into requirements
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so delete the existing requirements just to make it easier. pip freeze > requirements.txt. We can cap that. And there we have SendGrid in there.
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And with that done, we can then do our git add. Let's just deactivate just to be sure. Git add . git commit. pip install sendgrid.
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And then, we can do a git push Heroku master and that will push the SendGrid files off to our Heroku diner, to our little repository in Heroku.
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And then, in the next video, we can actually get coding. There's not too much to the code, it's quite simple.
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And then, we can send an email using SendGrid.