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Fetches Computing exams from Imperial
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from login import USERNAME, PASSWORD | |
from datetime import datetime | |
import os, re, requests, shutil | |
pdf_prefix = "C1" | |
def main(): | |
try: | |
shutil.rmtree("papers") | |
except OSError: | |
pass | |
finally: | |
os.mkdir("papers") | |
for year in range(12, datetime.now().year % 1000): | |
year_code = "{}-{}".format(year, year + 1) | |
base_url = "https://exams.doc.ic.ac.uk/pastpapers/papers.{}/".format(year_code) | |
r = requests.get(base_url, auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD)) | |
if (r.status_code == 200): | |
os.mkdir("papers/" + year_code) | |
loaded_files = [] | |
regex = re.compile(r"(=.*?):") | |
for match in set(re.findall("<a href='({0}.*?)'>({0}.*?)</a>".format(pdf_prefix), r.text)): | |
file, file_name = match | |
if file in loaded_files: | |
continue | |
loaded_files.append(file) | |
req = requests.get("{}/{}".format(base_url, file), auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD), stream=True) | |
if (req.status_code == 200): | |
f = open("papers/{}/{}.pdf".format(year_code, regex.sub("", file_name)).replace(":", ""), "wb") | |
for chunk in req.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): | |
if chunk: | |
f.write(chunk) | |
f.close() | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
main() |
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Needs a
login.py
file in the same directory that looks like this: