Extracts participants of BigBlueButton 2.3 (also 2.2) conferences from the log file.
It can either print the result or send it via E-Mail.
The result is a list of all conferences including their participants sorted by starting time of the conference.
Übersicht der BigBlueButton Konferenzen am 11.11.2020
Testraum (8:32Uhr - 11:56Uhr)
Walter Waltersen (0:00:00)
Silke Silkens (0:06:39)
Carolin Carolinsen (0:01:31)
Raum14 Drittmittelprojekte (9:48Uhr - 17:3Uhr)
Sara Nachname (6:11:57)
Joanna Döhla (6:45:52)
Barbara Sara (5:57:27)
The script also allows to exclude some conferences.
The output is written in german, but can easily be changed to a different language with little effort (basically just change self.subject + "Uhr").
usage: python3 bbb-participants [-h] [--logfile L] [--print] [--host_sender H]
[--port_sender P] [--login_sender l]
[--password_sender p] [--mail_to m] [--mail_from M]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--logfile L logfile to parse.
--print Print participants to stdout instead of sending it by
mail.
--host_sender H Hostname of mail server to send report from.
--port_sender P Port of mail server to send report from.
--login_sender l Login for email account to send report from.
--password_sender p Password for email account to send report from.
--mail_to m E-Mail address to send report to.
--mail_from M E-Mail address to send report from.
By default bbb-participants uses the log file of today (/var/log/bigbluebuttong/bbb-web.log).
You can create an cronjob at 23:59 to extract the participants from today.
With the --logfile parameter any older log can be parsed as well.
./bbb-participants --mail_to unclepeter@mail.com --login_sender MyEmailUsername --password_sender MySecurePassword --host_sender hostname.emailserverhosting.com --port-sender 1337 --mail_from MyEmailUsername@email.com