This is a python script for automatic notification of CityU AIMS grade updates with telegram bot.
The author is not a staff of City University of Hong Kong. Use at your own discretion.
- Install required packages
pip3 install selenium python-telegram-bot
- Install chrome driver Download from here https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads if you are using windows or mac
Visit https://tecadmin.net/setup-selenium-chromedriver-on-ubuntu/ for details if you are using ubuntu
- Create a new telegram bot Goto https://telegram.me/BotFather and execute
/newbot
Follow the instructions to create a telegram bot, keep the link to the bot and save the token to access the HTTP API, that is the telegram bot token for later use
- Configure the script
Configuration can be done in these two functions
def configuration(self):
self.EID = 'myeid' # set to your login eid
self.PASSWORD = 'mypassword' # set to your login password
self.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN = 'mybottoken' # set to your telegram bot token from step 3
self.TELEGRAM_BOT_VERIFICATIONCODE = 'secret' # this is used to verify you with your telegram bot, you can think a new random password here
self.CITYU_AIMS_URL = 'http:https://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityu/qlink/aims.htm' # do not change this
self.CRAWL_INTERVAL = 30 # crawl interval in second, you can try to set a different value
def setup_selenium(self):
# You can uncomment the lines to do some setup if needed
# chrome_bin_path = os.environment.get('GOOGLE_CHROME_BIN')
# chrome_driver_path = os.environ.get('CHROMEDRIVER_PATH')
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#chrome_options.binary_location = chrome_bin_path
# chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
# chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
# chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-sh-usage')
chrome_driver_path = 'chromedriver.exe' # set this to your chrome driver path
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_driver_path,chrome_options=chrome_options)
- Execute the script
python3 main.py
- Access the telegram bot created earlier
You can access your bot and type
/verify <verification_code>
For example, if you set self.TELEGRAM_BOT_VERIFICATIONCODE = 'secret' in main.py, you can do
/verify secret
If everything works fine, you will receive grade update from your telegram bot