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