Ankit NEET Notice Notifier & Data Collector

Purpose: Watch for new notices on medical counselling websites, and to collect data for later analysis

Basically 2 kaam hai iske:

1. Scrape websites like MCC, Bihar UGMAC, to fetch latest notices It runs as a daemon in background, and shows a notification when new notices are available

2. Data Collectors: Each data collector are separated into individual binaries, for easy use with crontab, so you can chose the update frequency. Currently, there is only one, for NMC, it parses the website for data on number of pg students etc, and saves them in a sql table

Requisites

• notify-send - For notifiers
• mysql - For data collectors
• linux - Because I use it, so I tested it on linux only... only problem might be xdg though, you can probably fix it easily on windows

Usage

Things which are daemons, or needed to be started once, I use systemd units.

For things, which are one-shot and require to be started repeatedly, I used fcrontab... I could have used systemd timers, but crontab is easier

• For notifiers, I create a systemd service unit, probably inside ~/.local/share/systemd/user, with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Ankit NEET Notice Notifier
After=mariadb.service
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=10s
Environment="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/MYUNAME/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "SQL_USERNAME=xxxxx" "DB_NAME=medicaldata" "TABLE_NAME=nmc"
ExecStart=/home/MYUNAME/.local/bin/notice-notifier-daemon

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

• For the ones that require to be repeatedly run, do it with:

fcrontab -e    # or crontab -e

Then,

# Run after every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * /home/MYUNAME/.local/bin/kuchh-to-hoga