bakalariCmd

A simple command line interface to Bakaláři software using its mobile API

Info

• Written in Python (both 2 and 3 is supported)
  • Tested on 2.7 and 3.6
• Mostly written in one day as a reaction to forcing Bakálaři next interface, thus making our JS BakalariMagicActions (fork of FHR's repo) useless
• Uses BakalariPy (fork of FHR's repo) for making API calls. (Thanks FHR)
• Opensource
  • See LICENSE for details

Instalation

The easy way

WIP :(

The difficult, bad and unrecommended way

1. Install Python
   • It is probably installed
   • Python2 should be fine, but Python3 is recommended
   • apt install python pacman -Syu python zypper in python3...
2. Clone this repo
   • If you don't have git, install it (see the first step)
   • git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/vojta001/bakalariCmd
   • git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:vojta001/bakalariCmd.git
3. Run the main file
   • cd /path/to/bakalariCmd && python main.py

Configuration

If you don't want to type all the details for login command, you may pass the in an environment variable. In turn you store your credentials on your drive, which is not very secure.

Less recommended (and secure) method

Add any of theese into your .bashrc file:

export bakalariUrl=<url (usually <name>.bakalari.cz/[bakalari])>
export bakalariUsr=<username>
export bakalariPas=<password>

More recommended (and secure) method

1. Choose a directory (depending on your distribution, ~/.bin, ~/.local.bin or similar may be a good choice)
2. Create a file there (name it however you want to call this script in the future)

#!/bin/bash
(cd "/path/to/bakalariCmd" && bakalariUrl="<url (usually <name>.bakalari.cz/[bakalari])>" bakalariUsr="<username>" bakalariPas="<password>" python "$PWD/main.py")

3. Make it executable
   • chmod u+x <fileName>
4. Make it unreadable by others (because it contains your credentials)
   • `chmod go-rwx
5. Update your $PATH. Insert this into your .bashrc

export PATH="/chosen/dir:$PATH"
6. Relogin
7. The name of the file from step 2 can be used to run this script
	* If a named it `bakalari` (e.g. ~/.local/bin/bakalari), I may just type `$ bakalari`

Bugs

• It is not a proper Python package. You gotta run it from its directory
• Its feature set is poor
• No error handling
  • Network timeout causes it to fail completely