Note: This project is no longer being updated as I have left school, please use this

Sparx-BWK

Sparx-Bookwork-Code is a project I've been working on for about a year (mostly as a hobby and because I'm lazy).

It's a web scraper to log Bookwork codes for Sparx and auto completes Bookwork checks (explained here). It uses chrome driver (Google Chrome) and now geckodriver (Firefox) to grab the values of answers and codes. I use python as it's my main language and is quite easy to understand.

Having it here may help anybody who wants to somewhat automate their Sparx maths homework. (or just hates writing bookwork codes)

Basic features

• Auto fills in password + username
• Logs codes for every question
• Auto does bookwork checks. (Currently reworking it)
• Creates a full backup log of every question as a .txt in /Logs

Setup Step by Step

Step 1: Install Chrome

This is mainly dedicated to chrome (even though I have a Firefox version). Other web browsers are too much work to keep up to date, so make sure you have Chrome installed. Once Chrome is installed, you need to figure out what version it is (Chromedriver is very picky about versions).

First, navigate to the three dots in the top right. then go to Settings > About Chrome (it's at the bottom) and look at the version.

Then go to here and download the version you have.

Step 2: Download Repo

Next, click here. This should download the rest of the files you need.

• First, right-click the file and click "Extract All" Next, open the extracted file and open Sparx-bwk-main.
• Place the chromedriver file you downloaded in step 1 in the file; it should be in the same file as the.exe and readme.md.

Step 3: Run the file.

Your folder should look something like that Now run the.exe called "BWK-CHROME. Windows may come up with a error just click, "more info." > Run anyway (if you dont think the code is safe you can look at it here)

Type in the details, and you're done. Chrome should open, and your bookwork codes should be logged for you.

Bugs

• Chrome driver needs updating about twice every month, you can download it here, Download the same version as your browser. Then place chromedriver.exe in the same directory as the .exe or .py
• Sometimes Auto bookwork checks may not work (due to how fractions are displayed).
• Bug where window wont close without crashing (fixing this soon)
• mostly needs polish. I also want to create a custom gui for finding bookwork codes.

Why so many try and excepts?

If you can be bothered to read my code. You might notice the amount of try: and excepts there are, this is because of Selenium Webdriver.

For some reason, Selenium will crash if it can't find an element. This means that to avoid crashing I have to use try-excepts, like this:

try:
  kp = driver.find_element_by_class_name('number-input')
  if kp.get_attribute("value") != "":
    log("[BWK] " + BWK.text + " [ANSWER] " + kp.get_attribute("value"))
except:

And... as I check for multiple elements, the result is a lot of try-excepts.

Whats Gecko?

I mainly use Linux, but when I developed this, I was still mostly using Windows, where I used Chrome mainly. When switching to Linux, I started mostly using Firefox. So instead of having two browsers installed, I started development on a Firefox version of Sparxbwk. Similar to Chrome and Chromedriver Firefox has a geckodriver, hence the name gecko. If you are going to use this tool, I suggest using Chrome, as that's generally in a better state than Gecko. I tend to test things and features on the Firefox version rather than Chrome, but both should work.