athityakumar/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

• Create a bot account on metakgp

• Change to ~/blackjack

cd ~/blackjack

Create a user-config.py file with the following data replacing 'blackjack' with the bot's name:

mylang = 'en'
family = 'metakgp'
usernames['metakgp']['en'] = 'blackjack'

• Generate user and family files.

python generate_user_files.py

python generate_family_files.py

• Mine grades of all courses from https://erp.iitkgp.ernet.in/Acad/Pre_Registration/subject_grade_status.jsp?subno=XXXXXXX after signing in and save it to allCourses.json

• Run blackjack.py

python blackjack.py