SRM Announcement Desktop Notifier

Never miss an important announcement of your college again 😉

Demo

How to

$ git clone https://github.com/varundey/srmAnnouncementInformer.git
$ cd srmAnnouncementInformer/
$ nano announcer.py

• Change the number of notifications you want to see from the top in the global variable name no_of_notifs. Max is 10

$ python announcer.py

Requirements

$ pip install beautifulsoup4
$ pip install requests
$ apt-get install python-gobject
$ apt-get install libnotify-bin

Bonus 🎉

Coz who doesn't like some add-ons

The announcer.py file can be set under as a cron-job to be run at every minute/hour/boot. Alas the OSD of linux kernel and cronTab are set up under different environment, and thus we have to work our way around a bit. In order to create a cronjob for the python file, keep reading:

$ chmod 700 srmAnnouncementInformer/bin/export_x_info
$ sh srmAnnouncementInformer/bin/export_x_info

• Now open Dash and under Startup Applications, add the export_x_info script
• Under crontab -e add the following two lines in the begining

SHELL=/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0

• Depending on your schedule and path, your crontab should look along the line of the following:

@reboot source ~/.Xdbus; python srmAnnouncementInformer/announcer.py

Inspiration

This project was inspired from Result-Reminder by @Sandeeprds95. Why not make a general announcement notifier. 😃

Bug Hunt?

Report it at issue tracker 🔫 💣

License

MIT License http://varundey.mit-license.org/ © Varun Dey