minsideScraper

Downloads all files from courses joined on the University of Bergen student website.

Requirements

If you are to use the python file as is, you will have to add the neccesary variables to your environment. PYNMA_API is the api string for Notify my Android which is used by pynma for push notifications. This script has only been tested with Python 2.7

Adding environment variables in linux:

cat << ! >> ~/.bashrc
export PYNMA_API=api-string-goes-here
export MINSIDE_USERNAME=usr123
export MINSIDE_PASS=password
export MINSIDE_FOLDER=$HOME/Documents/Minside
!
source ~/.bashrc

Adding environment variables in windows:

putx PYNMA_API api-string-goes-here
putx MINSIDE_USERNAME usr123
putx MINSIDE_PASS password
putx MINSIDE_FOLDER $HOME\\Documents\\Minside

Python packages

The script depends on mechanicalsoup, pathlib and pynma.

pip install mechanicalsoup pathlib pynma

Usage

If the python executable is in your environment you can run the file through cmd or terminal with the following line:

python /path/to/run.py PROPSY301 PROPSY302

The script will not run unless you supply course names as arguments in the command line.