NotifyNow

NotifyNow is a tool which fetches the new notifcations from the MNNIT's academic website and delivers it to respective user's Whatsapp Id.

The purpose of this tool is to help students in getting regular updates and relieving them from the burden of logging again and again to the academic portal.

Features

It broadcasts new updates directly to user's Whatsapp Id and always keep them updated without missing any crucial info.

*Instant updates

• Provides doucument link of the new notification

• Delivers notification on widely used messaging platform i.e. Whatsapp (presently on Telegram due to WhatsApp API i.e. Twilio issue.

Tech Stacks

• Languages Used: Python

• Tech Stack Used: BeautifulSoup,Scrapy,Twilio, Telegram API,Flask.

Presentation & Video

Here is the presentation of our project .
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DAZOQspx836p-jajOrrBEep3r4h-JWYd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102285003065471675463&rtpof=true&sd=true

Video Demo Link Deployed on Server: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yv7fxaH8YiLMKsZAB1MHIg5Ff15lDY-h?usp=sharing

Problems Faced

• While scraping and parsing there was difficulty in detecting the changes occuring in notification section of the website.
• Whatsapp messaging API i.e. Twilio wasn't working and was throwing "error:500" so we switched to it's alternative i.e. Telegram API.
• After detecting the change , converting the new notification from HTML to doc. was quite challenging.
• While deploying our code on web server we faced lot of errors.

Authors

• Harshit Chaudhari

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• Ashish Kumar sharma

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• Anurag Kumar

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• Anupesh Kumar Verma

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