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We should have a method in the Facebook class which takes in the link to a group and open it in the selenium driver.

@iharshit009 Please work on this.

We will be using methods such as scraping, web automation driving and form submission.

Selenium and beautifulsoup4 are two of the most known technologies but it is good for a student to do a research of the technologies and then give a report.

Node app can be initiated after installing npm via the command npm init.

Some posts display a button; "Include Original Post".

We should allow a boolean in settings to allow to select or skip the same.

Creating a Python package is a simple process which involves the writing of a setup.py file for the project mentioning all the details about the same.

Resources:

• https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html
• https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html

We currently only accept input through CLI. This can get cumbersome since the groups may remain the same for all the time.

We should allow the user to allow to set config in a file. The settings can be as below:

[LOGIN]
username
password
[POST]
groups
description
image

The student is free to use any of the below implementations and make it work.

The task is huge since we also need it such that if the config is set for an option, we should not ask the user to enter it.

The above can be implemented using:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/34354110/9044142
• https://martin-thoma.com/configuration-files-in-python/

Create a function to ask the user to add details which need to be posted in the group(s).

We will be accepting the following information to begin with:

• Description
• Image Path (optional)
• List of groups (comma separated)

These should be stored in a single session of the script inside Facebook class.

This is totally a learning opportunity for the students to learn Docker.

We can dockerize the entire project using Docker and make it available on Docker Hub.

We can also expose accepting three arguments from the user to the Docker container and then pass it on to the script.

Resources:

• https://runnable.com/docker/python/dockerize-your-python-application
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34254200/how-to-pass-arguments-to-a-dockerfile

Once we have a basic running version, we'd like to set up a continuous integration so that we can always keep checking for code sanity.

References:

• https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/tutorial/
• https://circleci.com/

The group link may contain whitespace due to user not being able to decide whether to put space after / before comma or not.

We should make sure the links do not contain whitespace.

A command line interface is the best way to manage apps which have multiple functionalities and require arguments.

Click is one of the best ways to implement a CLI. We can have two options: post and reset.

post: Used to post links on the group.
reset: Remove the saved credentials and start afresh.

The reset option will not take any argument. The post option will take at least one and at max three arguments:

• --username : Phone number / email to use for login.
• --password : Password for the facebook account.
• --list : Path to text / csv file containing the link (or name) of all groups

Resources:

• https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/

PEP8Speaks is a smell checker for python and we can implement it to maintain a smell-free code.

A function that takes as arguments the username and password of the user and logins him into facebook using the WebDriver we will be using (most probably Selenium).

Resources:

• https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/automate-login-with-selenium/

With the user given content for the post, make the post in a group.

A function can be created which takes content(s) and a single link as an argument and makes the post in the group.

This task requires a lot of analysis of the DOM structure of a group and the similarity between different group pages.

We currently allow the user to share a post by giving details but most of the time a person wants to share a particular post which has already been done by some page.

The process should be:

• Ask the user for credentials
• Ask users: If he wants to create a post or share existing one
• If create a post, then we already have the path
• If existing one: ask for the post link and then share it using the facebook dialogue to the group list provided.

Make a function that accepts the three inputs from the user:

• Phone Number / Email
• Password
• List of group links (or names)

The password should be stored after encrypting it on the user's system the first time he uses the application and after that, we should use the file unless it's not available or has been deleted.

Pipenv is a service used to manage python packages and virtual environment system.

We will be using it along with other python utilities for development.