Sparx-BWK

Sparx-Bookwork-Code is a project I've been working on for about a year (mostly as a hobby and because I'm lazy).

It's a web scraper to log Bookwork codes for Sparx and auto completes Bookwork checks (explained here). It uses chrome driver (Google Chrome) to grab the values of answers and codes. I use python as it's my main language and is quite easy to understand.

As I have stopped using Sparx, it's no use to me any more, so having it here may help anybody who wants to automate their Sparx maths homework.

Basic features

• Auto fills in password + username
• Logs codes for every question
• Auto does bookwork checks.
• Creates a full backup log as a .txt in /logs

Setup

This only works for chrome, so make sure you have chrome installed.

Windows

• Clone the repo and run the .exe
• Make Sure that the .exe or .py file are in the same directory as the Logs file, if not the .exe/.py should create one. You may have to update Chrome driver, as explained below.

Bugs

• Chrome driver needs updating about twice every month, you can download it here, Download the same version as your browser. Then place chromedriver.exe in the same directory as the .exe or .py
• Sometimes Auto bookwork checks may not work (due to how fractions are displayed).

Why so many try and excepts?

If you can be bothered to read my code. You might notice the amount of try: and excepts there are, this is because of Selenium Webdriver.

For some reason, Selenium will crash if it can't find an element. This means that to avoid crashing I have to use try-excepts, like this:

try:
  kp = driver.find_element_by_class_name('number-input')
  if kp.get_attribute("value") != "":
    log("[BWK] " + BWK.text + " [ANSWER] " + kp.get_attribute("value"))
except:

And... as I check for multiple elements, the result is a lot of try-excepts.