hb-file-creator

Command line usage:

hb <holberton_project_url>

This project creates files for holberton projects in your current directory. The first argument needs to be the url of the project.

Installation

1. Run pip3 install selenium

2. Type your email and password used for your holberton login in the login-info.json file

3. Download chromedriver that matches your version of chrome browser (Options > Help > About Chrome).

Move chromedriver to this folder

Create an alias

For Linux

Edit the path/to/ part of the following command and run it:

printf "alias hb=\'python3 /path/to/hb-scraper.py \"\$PWD\"'\n" >> "$HOME"/.bashrc

For M1 Mac

Edit the path/to/ part of the following command and run it:

printf "alias hb=\'python3 /path/to/hb-scraper.py \"\$PWD\"'\n" >> "$HOME"/.zshrc

Unfortunately, you'll need to delete the \ after hb= I can't get around this. For reference check out MyAlias repo.

For Windows

Maybe I'll put this in someday.

Troubleshooting

Make sure that the URL you're using strictly only contains the default URL, not the containing the task: Use: https://intranet.hbtn.io/projects/288 Don't use: https://intranet.hbtn.io/projects/288/#6872

For mac users, you might have additional chrome browsers running in the background, especially if headless is False. Unfortunately, you'll need to close them yourself.

• If it's not working, try changing the headless option on line 28 to False. This used to happen on Windows but hopefully Selenium fixed it since the last time I used it.
• The chromedriver version does not need to be exact but it needs to be "close enough"

Alternatives

keysmusician has created a chrome extension HTML GUI alternative called holberton-file-downloader-chrome-extension that basically achieves the same result with less configuration. Both methods rely on the chrome browser.