Using this scripts, you can get slack message for each session from researchr.org. This script is customized for APSEC2022.

parse.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

track2track = {
    'EDU - Software Engineering Education': 'EDU',
    'ERA - Early Research Achievements': 'ERA',
    'SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice': 'SEIP',
    'Technical Track': 'Technical Track'
}

# This file includes appended modal data.
# To create this file, you need to use "show_click_all_papers_command.py".
with open('apsec-program-expanded.html') as f:
    program_text = f.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(program_text, 'html.parser')
sessions = []
# loop for each session
for table in soup.find_all('table'):
    # ignore non-target tables
    if not table.has_attr('data-facet-date'):
        continue
    event_type = table.find('div', attrs={'class': 'event-type'})
    if not event_type or not event_type.text == 'Paper':
        continue

    skip_flag = True
    papers = []
    for tr in table.find_all('tr'):
        # <tr class="firefox-fix"> is very useful as the anchor.
        # each paper information is in the <tr> which place under the "firefox-fix".
        if tr.attrs['class'][0] == 'firefox-fix':
            skip_flag = False
            continue
        if skip_flag:
            continue
        start_time = tr.find('div', attrs={'class' : 'start-time'}).text
        
        title_str = tr.find('a', {"data-event-modal": True})
        # modal_id is unique ID of the paper.
        modal_id = title_str.attrs['data-event-modal']
        title_str = title_str.text

        authors = []
        for author in tr.find('div', attrs={'class': 'performers'}).find_all('a'):
            # we ignore author's affliation and link to the author information.
            authors.append(author.text)

        # convert track full name to abbrev.
        track = track2track[tr.find('div', attrs={'class': 'prog-track'}).text]

        if len(papers) != 0:
            papers[-1]['end_time'] = start_time
        papers.append({
            'modal_id': modal_id,
            'start_time': start_time,
            'title': title_str,
            'authors': authors,
            'track': track
        })

    session_title = table.find('div', attrs={'class': 'session-info-in-table'}).contents[0]
    room = table.attrs['data-facet-room']

    # add the end time of final presentation.
    session_end_time = table.find('div', attrs={'class': 'slot-label'}).text.split('-')[-1].lstrip()
    papers[-1]['end_time'] = session_end_time

    sessions.append({
        'date': table.attrs['data-facet-date'],
        'title': session_title,
        'room': room,
        'papers': papers
    })

# collect link URL to the each detailed paper information page
modal2link = {}
for modal_span in soup.find_all('span', attrs={'class': 'appended'}):
    modal_id = modal_span.find('a', {'data-event-star': True})
    modal_id = modal_id.attrs['data-event-star']
    link = modal_span.find_all('a')[-2].attrs['href']
    modal2link[modal_id] = link

# print all session information
for session in sessions:
    print(session['date'])
    print(f'This channel is for *{session["title"]}* session at *{session["room"]}*.')
    print('The titles and presenters are')
    for paper in session['papers']:
        link = modal2link[paper['modal_id']]
        title = f'[{paper["title"]}]({link}) ({paper["track"]})'
        print(f'* {paper["start_time"]} - {paper["end_time"]} {title}')

        print('  * ', end='')
        print(', '.join(paper['authors']))
    print()

show_click_all_papers_command.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# run this command and paste ouput to the javascript console at APSEC program page.
# after run the javascript, please save modified HTML by using broweser's inspection feature.

# This file is just downloaded html.
# You can get this file by using curl or wget.
with open('apsec-program.html') as f:
    program_text = f.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(program_text, 'html.parser')
for table in soup.find_all('table'):
    if not table.has_attr('data-facet-date'):
        continue
    event_type = table.find('div', attrs={'class': 'event-type'})
    if not event_type or not event_type.text == 'Paper':
        continue

    skip_flag = True
    for tr in table.find_all('tr'):
        if tr.attrs['class'][0] == 'firefox-fix':
            skip_flag = False
            continue
        if skip_flag:
            continue
        start_time = tr.find('div', attrs={'class' : 'start-time'}).text
        
        modal_id = tr.find('a', {"data-event-modal": True}).attrs['data-event-modal']
        print(f'document.querySelector("a[data-event-modal=\'{modal_id}\'").click()')
        print('modals = document.querySelectorAll("a[data-dismiss=\'modal\']")')
        print('modals[modals.length - 1].click()')