arnav-t/blackjack

Populates infoboxes of courses on metaKGP with their previous year grade distributions

Info

Blackjack is a surgeon bot who adds past year grade distributions of courses on metaKGP. It searches for all the courses on metaKGP and populates their infoboxes with their previous year grade distributions, if available from ERP.

Setup

Clone from the pywikibot library from wikimedia to blackjack

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git blackjack
cd blackjack
git clone https://github.com/metakgp/blackjack.git
mv blackjack/* .

Generate family files.

python generate_family_file.py https://wiki.metakgp.org/w/Main_Page metakgp

One first needs to add the cookie from ERP to access the /Acad route. To obtain it:

1. Go to Student Academic Activities (UG) section in Academic. This gives you a cookie for accesing the /Acad route. You will not be able to mine the grades without this.

2. Get the content of the JSID#/Acad named cookie set by ERP. It should be something like 43E........26F.worker3. Update this in getNewGrades.py.

After that, one can mine grades of all courses using python getNewGrades.py which saves the new grades to newGrades.json

Run blackjack

python blackjack.py