SLcM-Bot

A simple python bot that'll send you an email every time a new document is uploaded on SLcM.¹

• Sends you 3 most recent pdf docs from the SLcM 'Notifications Tab'.
• Uses Selenium Webdriver.
• Doesn't need your login details. Keep your grades private.
• Took 12+ hours over 3 days to complete. Turns out avoiding logging onto SLcM is the biggest motivator.
• No more 'is this official?', 'wait for confirmation from SC', or any other human delay in communication process.

Functionality

• Bypasses captcha using Tesseract OCR
• Checks the 3 most recent notification titles, if any changes are detected, downloads said pdfs and sends it as an email to receiver list.

Future improvements (Any help is much appreciated)

• Host script on a cloud service and schedule at different times of day. (personally tried sites like pythonanywhere but free options are severely limited for this imo)
• Personalised emails and beautification using HTML.
• Categorise pdfs according to semester,academic year,etc.
• Sending a whatsapp message rather than email.
• This is a non-exhaustive list. Any other ideas at all are always welcome by opening an issue in this repo.

Why Open Source ?

How to run ?

• Please go through the comments in script.py for initial instructions and understanding. Then,
  pip install -r requirements.txt && python script.py

What you'll get

Lastly, do give this repo a ⭐ and help spread the word if you found it even remotely interesting.

Sign up for SLcM Bot here

Footnotes

1. A rare view of the site. ↩