The following is a collection of scripts for performing different actions on BlackBoard. BlackBoard is a learning platform used by Aarhus University. The class for interacting with blackboard is based on the following project: bbfetch
The dependencies for using this package is the following:
- Requests for sending request via HTTP
- simple-crypt for encrypting the password file
- Beutiful Soup for parsing HTML
- argparse for parsing arguments
To install the requirements the following command can be used
pip3 install -r requirements.txtThe class BlackBoardSession takes to keyword arguments one for a username and one for a password. If they are not supplied it is going to ask for a username and password from the command line.
It automatically saves already know password in the file .bbpass file which is encrypted under some password chosen by the user the first time inputting a password. It is only saved when inputting through the terminal.
To request a page using an instance of this class the get function can be used.
To download a batch from blackboard the download.py file can be used as follows:
./download.pyJust follow the instructions on screen an input the desired URL and file extension
It has the following commandline arguments
usage: download.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-l URL] [-e EXTENSION]
[-v]
Download files from Blackboard
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-u USERNAME, --user USERNAME username for blackboard
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD password for blackboard
-l URL, --url URL url for blackboard site with links
-e EXTENSION, --extension EXTENSION file extension of the given files
-v, --version show program's version number and exit