maw101 / aber-past-paper-retriever

Fetches all Aberystwyth University Past Paper PDFs for a given module.

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aber-past-paper-retriever's Issues

Convert main retriever to a class

Wrap literal URLs in README

Some markdown vendors treat these URLs as linked, ensure always linked by wrapping these in < >

Change code block language-flag to more appropriate value

Updated README line 2 as papers now fetched for all years

Incorrectly states that it fetches in a given year range - no longer the case. In addition to this, papers after 2018 can now be fetched despite the changes in the file naming convention by the university.

Correct this line to something along lines of:

Fetches all Aberystwyth University Past Paper PDFs for a given module.

Separate out CLI elements into own class

Add a GUI interface using new model

Provide another example output using the department URL input

Example required where department URL field is filled in so this use case can be addressed.

Update README to reflect new script filenames

Change string comparison to utilise ==/!=

Move example output headings to come under their respective files

Duplicate headings with similar content, should really come under their headings stated at the start of the file.

Add missing code-language flag to code snippets

In README, all seem to be sh flag.

Separate out semester for loop

Does not work with papers 2019 and later

Due to naming conventions changing in the 2019 year we can no longer retrieve papers for years past 2018. These naming conventions are not standardised and so the program will not work on these years without major changes.

Potential Solution:

• (Major) Utilise beautiful soup parsing to manually grab the URL to the PDF.

Add missing code language flags to README

Remove trailing whitespace from all scripts