URC (University of Ridiculous of China) nCov Auto Report

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

— Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

— James Baldwin

Current README

Fork & grand rework of https://github.com/Kobe972/USTC-ncov-AutoReport.

Screenshot (fake) auto generation finished, should work as of May 12, 2022.

Usage

usage: report.py [-h] [-d] [-s] [-c] [-t MAX_TRIES]
                 [-n REAL_NAME] [-m MOBILE_PHONE] [-i NA_ID]
                 username password

Abbreviation	Arguments	Help	Default
(positional)	username	your student number	(required)
(positional)	password	your CAS password	(required)
-dsc	(none)	script running method (*)	(none)
-t	MAX_TRIES	max tries as in reports	5
-n	REAL_NAME	your real name as in screenshots	(**)
-m	MOBILE_PHONE	your mobile phone as in screenshots	(**)

(*) -d Daily Report; -s Screenshot Generation; -c Cross-campus Report

(**) when empty, read from previous report

Expected Output:

Login Successful!
Got Daily Report Success Alert!
Last report: %H hour(s) %M minute(s) %S second(s) before.
Daily Report Successful!
Cross-campus Report Successful! Until: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

GitHub Actions

• Fork, or make a new repository with downloaded source code;
• Settings > Secrets > Actions > New Secret > USERNAME & PASSWORD as student number and password;
• For screenshot generation, REAL_NAME & MOBILE_PHONE as real name and mobile phone (as 198****0817) as well;
• Actions > I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them > Auto-report action > Run workflow for test.

See https://github.com/Kobe972/USTC-ncov-AutoReport for further instructions.

Updates

• Generates fake screenshots (akm, xck, na test) for now.
• Integrates login module for now.
• Catches Cross-Campus Report Error for now.
• Minor adjustments & performance optimization. Action should now run in ~30s.
• Fixed Cross-campus Report in light of change of April 5, 2022.
• Fixed Daily Report & Cross-campus Report in light of March 2022 changes by URC.
• Added try-catch logic, error logging and max_tries argument (default 10) as robustness measures.
• Personal information (dorm, contact) is now primarily loaded from the previous report.
• Now scheduled daily at 23:55 (~0:05) UTC+8.
• Has a workflow_dispatch event trigger (can be run manually, see Actions after forking).

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