cheese-cracker / Termi-Nalanda

Web Scraping Tool for checking for updates on Nalanda (BITS)

Termi-Nalanda

About:

It uses bs4 and requests Libraries. It is used to access Nalanda - The E-Learning Management System for BITS Pilani, directly from the terminal. It displays notices which you haven't seen earlier using this.
It will also download/update the lecture slides and other resources for you.

Requirements:

• Ubuntu
• Python2.7 or Python3.5+
• pip

Development:

If you want to contribute by solving any issue or adding a feature in this project, then keep in mind

1. The code should be according to PEP8 Standards
2. If a major feature/issue is being addressed, then use a new branch
3. The commit messages should be descriptive

Installation:

• Clone the repository. Open it in a terminal and run the install file:
  

./install 

• Inputs:

  1. Enter your BITS ID -
     Eg: if your ID is 2016A7PS0015P, type in

  f2016015

  2. Enter your nalanda password.
  3. Enter the path to store lecture slides - Eg: If you want to store lecture slides at

  /home/username/Bits/2-1/

  then type,

  Bits/2-1

Usage:

Whenever, you want to see the Nalanda Updates or just download the slides, open a terminal and type:

nalanda

Screenshots:

1. Installation
   
2. Using termi-nalanda