Naarad

The chivalrous messenger god is here to reduce your burden of Digital Publicity of your college events in facebook groups.

Motivation

With every new event in college or any organisation, comes the burden of making it spread organically through facebook. A great way to do this is by posting it in multiple groups. It is a very tiresome and repetative task which can be excruciating at times.

Features

• Allow posting in multiple groups by providing the list of groups and the required content.
• Accept list and content in multiple formats.
• Allow posting for two types of posts: embed and non embed.
• Allow posting a new post as well existing post.
• Create a installable pip package for the same.
• Secure and doesn't take password beyond user's system.

Detailed Description

Below is a rough algorithm for the working of the application. This is to be improved as we move on with the project:

Step: Take required input from the user
Step: Login to facebook with given credentials using web driver
Step: Selecting the type of post to be shared
Step: Open each link and using the web driver enter the form with data
Step: Post and show success message

The input taken will be:
- Phone Number / Email (for login)
- Password (for login)
- List of links (via batch file or entering manually)
- existing post or new post
- Text for the post
- Image / Link for the post

Schedule

Phase I

Explore all the options and the tools required to accomplish the same. Get a knowledge of the DOM structure of Facebook.

Phase II

Create a basic structure for the project and implement the extracting and selection of DOM objects required for the process. Acceptance of input and formatting it should also be completed.

Phase III

Make it a pip package and finish up the coding phase. Write tests if time remains.

Contribution Guidelines

Please raise a feature request or issue before sending PR for the same.

Follow the below guidelines for proper coding practices:

• Always create a new branch for your changes and make PR from it ONLY.
• Write neat code with proper comments.
• Follow PEP8 coding style.
• Write descriptive commit messages. Please read this for more information.
• Write detailed PR messages and include fixes #ISSUE_NUMBER it if closes an issue, otherwise use concerns #ISSUE_NUMBER to tag the related issues. Please refer here for more PR guidelines.
• It is recommended to have a single commit for a task.
• Use DRY principles to create maintainable code.

Communication

All contributors / users are requested to Whatsapp for further discussion on ideas, PRs and issues.

Mentor for the project: Harshit Jain