attendance.py

import sys
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

# List of the default months the HFOSS course runs
# months = ["09", "10", "11", "12"]
months = ["02", "03", "04", "05"]

# Scrape the whole page
page = urllib2.urlopen("http://linkybook.com/meetbot/rit-foss/2015/")

bigSoup = BeautifulSoup(page)

# Find all of the links
links = bigSoup.findAll('a')
html = []

# Add only the links that end in .html to a list
for link in links:

    type1 = link.getText().split('.')[-1]
    type2 = link.getText().split('.')[-2]

    # Filters out *.log.html links
    if "html" in type1 and "log" not in type2:

        # Gather date information about the log
        date = link.getText().split('.')[1]
        year = date.split('-')[0]
        month = date.split('-')[1]
        day = date.split('-')[2]

        # No user input
        if len(sys.argv) == 1:
            html.append(link)

        # Check user input for a specific year
        if len(sys.argv) == 2:
            if sys.argv[1] in year:
                html.append(link)

        # Check user input for a specific year and month
        elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
            if sys.argv[1] in year:
                if sys.argv[2] in month:
                    html.append(link)

        # Check user input for a specific year, month, and day
        elif len(sys.argv) == 4:
            if sys.argv[1] in year:
                if sys.argv[2] in month:
                    if sys.argv[3] in day:
                        html.append(link)

# Scrape each link for the attendance
for link in html:
    page = urllib2.urlopen("http://linkybook.com/meetbot/rit-foss/" +
                           str(link.getText().split('.')[1].split('-')[0]) +
                           "/" + str(link.getText()))
    smallSoup = BeautifulSoup(page)

    # Find all the people who attended the meeting (class)
    people = smallSoup.findAll('h3')[-1].findAllNext('li')
    present = []

    # Populate a list of people who were present during rollcall
    for name in people:
        present.append(name.getText().split()[0].lower())

    # List of students in the class
    # classDict = {
    #     "AgitatedBadger": [],
    #     "Akaleth": ["Akaleth|Class"],
    #     "ArcticSphinx": [],
    #     "Fangy": [],
    #     "BeruBeruFunBot": [],
    #     "ChrisKnepper": [],
    #     "Consuuume": [],
    #     "Destroyer675000": [],
    #     "dudeman514": ["Dudeman514"],
    #     "ExplosiveHippo": [],
    #     "Grub0": [],
    #     "LinkSlayer64": ["XLS64|Lappy", "LS64"],
    #     "Nolski": [],
    #     "Obliv": ["Obliv|class"],
    #     "Spectralshadow": ["Spectralshadow5"],
    #     "TheOnlyTaters": [],
    #     "Waterseas": [],
    #     "Xethik": ["XethikClass"],
    #     "edwfoss": [],
    #     "emmix": [],
    #     "gecko_": [],
    #     "h2g2guy": [],
    #     "valeatory": [],
    #     "zanarama": ["zanarama1"]
    # }

    # List of students in the class
    classDict = {
        "milistisia2": [],
        "NumbuhFour": [],
        "direkitteh": [],
        "jeid64": [],
        "Fortnight": [],
        "Federcheese": [],
        "IAmRasputin": [],
        "holtr94": [],
        "mellolikejello": [],
        "JoLaks": [],
        "amm4108": [],
        "RedTwo": [],
        "Kaffys": [],
    }

    date = link.getText().split('.')[1]
    year = date.split('-')[0]
    month = date.split('-')[1]
    day = date.split('-')[2]

    # Display the date
    print("\n###### Attendance for {0}-{1}-{2} ######".format(
        year, month, day))

    # Print out each student's status that day
    for student in classDict.keys():
        if student.lower() in present:
            print("%s was present!" % student)
        else:
            has_alias = False
            for alias in classDict[student]:
                if alias.lower() in present:
                    has_alias = True
                    break

            if has_alias:
                print ("%s was present!" % student)
            else:
                print("%s was not in class." % student)