AWSreCalendar

This project takes the data for your favourited sessions of the AWS re:Invent and prints them grouped by date and sorted by time. It has no ability yet to mark potential conflicts, but can be a help when trying to see if the sessions you are interested in are feasible to combine.

NOTE: This project is not affiliated in any way with Amazon Web Services.

Preconditions

1. Make sure you have Python3, Firefox and Xvfb installed on your system. This project is designed to run on Linux.

2. Checkout the project git clone https://github.com/StegSchreck/AWSreCalendar.git && cd AWSreCalendar

3. Install the requirements with pip for Python3 pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Install Geckodriver

   • Use your system's package manager (if it contains Geckodriver)
     • Arch Linux: pacman -S geckodriver
     • MacOS: brew install geckodriver
   • Or execute sudo ./InstallGeckodriver.sh. For this you will need to have tar and wget installed.

Running the script

The basic command looks as follows:

python3 main.py -u <your.name@domain.com> -p <your_secret_password>

You can filter the output by using the parameters described below.

Add special events

You can add some special events by editing special_events.csv, which is already pre-filled with three events.

Call arguments / parameters

Mandatory

-u / --username: username for AWS re:Invent login

-p / --password: password for AWS re:Invent login

Optional

-d / --day: Filter output to only include this day. Possible values include e.g. '2018-11-26', 'Tuesday', 'fr'. This is not case sensitive.

-s / --speaker: Filter output to only include items with given speaker name, e.g. 'Werner', 'Vogels'. This is not case sensitive.

-t / --type: Filter output to only include this type of sessions. Possible values include e.g. 'Session', 'Workshop'. This is not case sensitive.

-l / --location: Filter output to only include locations containing given text. Possible values include e.g. 'Venetian', 'Grand Ballroom B'. This is not case sensitive.

-n / --name: Filter output to only include items with given text in the title. This is not case sensitive.

-a / --abstract: Filter output to only include items with given text in the abstract. This is not case sensitive.

-r / --reserved: Only show reserved sessions. If you want to show one of the special events here, edit the last column in special_events.csv

-f / --file: Load data from this file instead of parsing the page again. The file has to be next to be in the same folder.

--ical: Export schedule to iCal file.

-q / --quiet: Do not print session schedule to console output. This overrules the verbosity argument.

-v / --verbose: Increase output verbosity.

-x / --show_browser: Show the browser doing his work (this might help for debugging).

-h / --help: Display the help, including all possible parameter options.

Trouble shooting

Script aborts with WebDriverException

If you recently updated your Firefox, you might encounter the following exception during the login attempt of the parser:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Expected [object Undefined] undefined to be a string

This can be fixed by installing the latest version of Mozilla's Geckodriver by running again the Install Geckodriver command mentioned above.

Login attempt does not work

This can have multiple explanations. One is, that you are using a password which starts or ends with a space character. This script is currently not capable of dealing with that. If your credentials have a space character in the middle though, it will work fine.