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Secret Santa

Quickly draw names from secret santa and send emails telling people about their own.

Running

Install Deno. The latest version should work, but this is as of 2022-11-25 and I am using v1.28.1.
Install the AWS CLI. You should configure a profile called SecretSanta, that has enough IAM permissions to send emails with Amazon SES. Or change the loaded profile to something else you want.
Change the email template and the origin email address to whatever you want, and whatever email address you control.
Add a data.json file in the root of the directory and specify your input there: people key has people's names and emails, and pools has the people that can't gift each other. Something like the following:

{
  "people": [
    { "name": "Alice", "email": "[email protected]" },
    { "name": "Bob", "email": "[email protected]" },
    { "name": "Cathrine", "email": "[email protected]" },
    { "name": "Mike", "email": "[email protected]" },
    { "name": "Hannah", "email": "[email protected]" }
  ],
  "pools": [
    ["Alice", "Cathrine"],
    ["Bob"],
    ["Mike"],
    ["Hannah"]
  ]
}

Run with deno run --allow-env --allow-read --allow-net main.ts

Notes

If an assignment is impossible, such as if there are only two pools and three participants, you're gonna get stuck on an infinite loop.
SES is gonna blow up if you don't have prod access or try to send through my email address

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