UjjwalAggarwal-1 / Notice-Notifier

An automated script to fetch the list of recent notices from BITS Pilani's online notice board, get the notices until the notice last seen, download any images attached in the email, upload to own server, and send an email to all subscribed students with the uploaded image

NOTICE BOARD PARSER

The parser, does the following, in this order :

▶️ Go to BITS Pilani's online notice board, get the list of recent notices until the notice last seen
▶️ Download any images attached in the email, and upload to own server, and repalce image urls with the uploaded image
▶️ Send an email to all subscribed students

The 💖 of the code lies in v1/my_parser.py and v1/send_email.py

To run 🚀 locally

• in v1, make a dir named data and one named logs
  • in data, add files last_notice.txt and last_post.txt
• in v1, make a file named my_secrets.py and add the define variables there, you can find the template in v1/my_secrets_template.py

Notes 📝

/v1

logic from /v0, but arranged properly; modularized

/v0

this was just some code in a single file, doing what was intended

Going forth 🎯

• v0/alternate_main.py contains post logic, compared to forum and posts which is being used now

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• can also update last as the first one this time, traverse next page using notice_start till last is found

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• if use a cron, lets say every x mins, when getting the list of urls, i can check for the notices posted in last x+1 mins

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• obtaining the session cookie can be automated, not required right now due to long life

End of Life 🪦

• the primary purpose of this was to send emails to students, being more convenient, but that's not required anymore as the institute has continued sending notices over email as well

• the scripts, will still work, but not needed for now

🌟 A good script nevethless, had fun building it