Also an authentication library, just because
Rather than going through the absolute hell that is the school system called 'OSIRIS', I decided to just write a scraper and generate a beautiful and searchable website to do the same instead. Also a full website authentication 'framework' that allows easy access to HINT documents in scripts.
This was code written in a few hours, I had no intention of making it 'pretty' or 'perfect', so excuse my code if it's messy.
To use the scraper, simply install the required libraries and run the script scraper.py.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python scraper.py --username <hogeschool rotterdam student id> --password <i'm not even explaining this one>
To install the website, you'll need a (preferably linux based) web server with PHP 7+ and Phalcon 3.X installed. Then just clone the repository, mark the directory website/keuzecursussen/public/ as your web root and you're good to go! No database needed at all.
Since I had to figure out the entire login system for the school, I might as well share that as an easy-to-use library, right?
To use it, simply create a new instance of hr.browser.HrBrowser and use the login methods. The class is a subclass of requests.Session so it will have all the features you're used to in the requests library. All login methods return true on a successful login.
# Import the HrBrowser class
from hr.browser import HrBrowser
# Instantiate a new browser object
browser = HrBrowser(username="<your username>", password="<your password>")
# Log in using any of these methods to your service of choice
browser.login() # -> bool, log into the global `login.hro.nl` domain
browser.login_natschool() # -> bool, log into the natschool service
browser.login_myfiles() # -> bool, log into the myfiles service
browser.login_osiris() # -> bool, log into the osiris service
browser.login_hint() # -> bool, log into the hint service
# Once you've logged into one of the five services
# you can use the class like any other `requests.Session` object
# but request internal web pages that reside behind a login wall too
browser.get("https://hint.hro.nl/example") # -> requests.ResponseI am not responsible if you get in trouble for using these tools, they can be considered 'noisy' as they make a lot of HTTP(S) GET and POST requests, hosting the data publicly may also not be allowed (I'm assuming it is until I get asked to take it down).
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