uoy_assessment_uploader

discontinued - they stopped using the teaching portal and switched to the VLE (blackboard) so this isn't useful anymore

PyPI page: https://pypi.org/project/uoy-assessment-uploader/

Install

1. When you have Python and Pip ready, it's as easy as:

   python -m pip install "uoy-assessment-uploader"

2. As shrimple as that

Alternative install

• You can also install it directly from the repo with pip:

  python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/joelsgp/uoy-assessment-uploader.git"

• Or on an alpm (Arch) Linux system you can get it from the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uoy-assessment-uploader.

  paru uoy-assessment-uploader

Use

Like this:

• python -m uoy_assessment_uploader --help

  or

• uoy-assessment-uploader --help

Once it's submitted, you should receive an email to your uni address with confirmation. The email will show you the MD5 hash, like so:

MD5 hash of file: 97f212cda7e5200a67749cac560a06f4

If this matches the hash shown by the program, you can be certain you successfully uploaded the right file.

Example

uoy-assessment-uploader --dry-run \
    --username "ab1234" --exam-number "Y1234567" \
    --submit-url "https://teaching.cs.york.ac.uk/student/2021-2/submit/COM00012C/901/A"

Found file '/home/joelm/src/uoy-assessment-uploader/exam.zip'.
MD5 hash of file: 8bbd39fa6a215eb1ea43c34b0da764b9
Loading cookie file 'cookies.txt'
Loaded cookies.
Logging in..
Logging in from scratch.
Password: <PASSWORD HIDDEN>
Logged in.
Entering exam number..
Entered exam number.
Uploading file...
Skipped actual upload.
Saving cookie file 'cookies.txt'
Saved cookies.
Finished!