Automation of Assignment Submisison

submit_assignment.py

# selenium for web driving
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver

# time for pausing between navigation
import time

# Datetime for recording time of submission
import datetime

# os for file management
import os


def submit_assignment(file_tup):
	# Using Chrome to access web
	driver = webdriver.Chrome()

	time.sleep(5)

	# Open the website
	driver.get('https://canvas.case.edu')

	# Password for Canvas
	with open('C:/Users/Will Koehrsen/Desktop/cp.txt', 'r') as f:
	    cp = f.read()


	# Locate id and password
	id_box = driver.find_element_by_name('username')
	pass_box = driver.find_element_by_name('password')

	# Send login information
	id_box.send_keys('wjk68')
	pass_box.send_keys(cp)

	# Click login
	login_button = driver.find_element_by_name('submit')
	login_button.click()

	# Find and click on list of courses
	courses_button = driver.find_element_by_id('global_nav_courses_link')
	courses_button.click()


	# Wait for the page to load
	time.sleep(2)

	# Get the name of the folder
	folder = file_tup[0]
	    
	# Class to select depends on folder
	if folder == 'DSCI451':
	    class_select = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Applied Data Science Research (100/5047)')
	elif folder == 'DCSI453':
	    class_select = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Data Science: Statistical Learning, Modeling and Prediction (100/5046)')
	elif folder == 'EECS491':
	    class_select = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Graphical Models (100/10039)')
	elif folder == 'EECS531':
	    class_select = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Computer Vision (100/10040)')

	# Click on the specific class
	class_select.click()

	assignment_button = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Assignments')
	assignment_button.click()

	# Wait for the page to load 
	time.sleep(2)

	# Locate the specific assignment
	file_name = file_tup[1]
	file_locator = file_name.split('.')[0]
	 
	specific_assigment = driver.find_element_by_link_text(file_locator)
	specific_assigment.click()

	# Click on the button to submit an assignment
	try:
	    submit_assignment_button = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Submit Assignment')
	# If assignment has already been submitted
	except:
	    print('Assignment already submitted, re-submitting')
	    submit_assignment_button = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Re-submit Assignment')

	submit_assignment_button.click()

	# Wait for the page to load
	time.sleep(2)

	# Choose file button
	choose_file = driver.find_element_by_name('attachments[0][uploaded_data]')

	# Send the name of the file to the button
	file_location = os.path.join(submission_dir, folder, file_name)
	choose_file.send_keys(file_location)

	submit_assignment = driver.find_element_by_id('submit_file_button')
	submit_assignment.click()

	# Wait for the page
	time.sleep(2)

	# Move the file to the submitted folder
	submitted_dir = 'C:/Users/Will Koehrsen/Desktop/submitted_assignments'
	submitted_dir = os.path.join(submitted_dir, folder)
	submitted_file_name = 'Submitted ' + file_name

	submitted_file_location = os.path.join(submitted_dir, submitted_file_name)
	# os.rename(file_location, submitted_file_location)

	print('{} Assignment for Class {} successfully submitted at {}.'.format(
		file_name, folder, datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')))

	print('Submitted assignment available at {}.'.format(submitted_file_location))

	return

if __name__ == "__main__":

	# Build tuple of (folder, file) to turn in
	submission_dir = 'C:/Users/Will Koehrsen/Desktop/completed_assignments'
	dir_list = list(os.listdir(submission_dir))

	for directory in dir_list:
	    file_list = list(os.listdir(os.path.join(submission_dir, directory)))
	    if len(file_list) != 0:
	        file_tup = (directory, file_list[0])

	if len(file_tup) == 0:
		print('No files to submit')

	else:
		print('Assignment "{}" for "{}" found.'.format(file_tup[1], file_tup[0]))
		input('Press enter to proceed: ')
		submit_assignment(file_tup)

Thanks for the code! I found it through your blog post. Gonna adjust it a little bit to use it for the same reason ;)