POIS-Questionnaire-Filler

A code to fill daily questionnaire for POIS course.

Requirements

Selenium
Argparse

$ pip install selenium argparse

Chromedriver for Chrome/ Geckodriver for firefox

After downloading chromedriver/geckodriver, follow these steps:

$ chmod +x chromedriver
$ sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/chromedriver

The above steps are for Google Chrome, replace chromedriver with geckodriver for Firefox browser

Check the installation

$ python
>>> import selenium
>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> 
>>> 
>>> driver = webdriver.Chrome() # for chrome
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox() # for firefox

The respective browser should be opened after running above piece of code.

Running the code

$ python pois.py -h

usage: login.py [-h] [-b {c,f}] -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD [-t TYPE] [-o {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}]

POIS Questionnaire Filler

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b {c,f}, --browser {c,f}
                        select browser Google Chrome(c)/Firefox(f), by default Chrome
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        <name.surname>
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        <password>
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  research(r)/students(s) account, by default research(r)
  -o {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}, --option {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}
                        (1) Did Nothing
                        (2) Self discovery 
                        (3) Reading/Learning from some outside source (books, wiki, YouTube etc) 
                        (4) Brainstorming with friends 
                        (5) Intersection of (2) & (3) 
                        (6) Intersection of (2) & (4) 
                        (7) Intersection of (3) & (4) 
                        (8) All of (2), (3) and (4) 
                        (9) Couldn't find time 
                        (10) Not interested in the course
                        
                        By default (1) Did Nothing

For example, to submit (9) Couldn't find time in the form, run the following command:

$ python pois.py -u anchit.gupta -p <password> -o 9

To use firefox browser, run the following command:

$ python pois.py -u anchit.gupta -p <password> -b f -o 9

For students account, run the following command:

$ python pois.py -u name.surname -p <password> -t s -o 9

Finally adding this to cron job

Open crontab file:

$ crontab -e

Add the following line in editor to fill the form everyday at 10pm

0 22 * * * /usr/bin/python3 pois.py -u anchit.gupta -p <password> -o 9

Other examples:

Everyday at 10:45 pm

45 22 * * * <command>

Every odd day (1) Did Nothing and even day (2) Self discovery at 10pm

0 22 1-31/2 * * /usr/bin/python3 pois.py -u anchit.gupta -p <password> -o 1
0 22 2-31/2 * * /usr/bin/python3 pois.py -u anchit.gupta -p <password> -o 2

To check meaning of custom crontab expression checkout https://crontab.guru/

P.S This cronjob works for me, If it does not works for you try this https://pypi.org/project/python-crontab/

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