This project is an automated attendance fetching bot designed specifically for Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering students. It allows users to query their attendance information through a WhatsApp interface by sending simple messages.
The bot scrapes attendance data from the college’s portal and responds with up-to-date attendance details.
- Fetches attendance data automatically by scraping the official portal.
- WhatsApp integration for easy, on-the-go attendance checking.
- Simple command interface (e.g., type
attendanceto receive your current attendance). - Handles HTML parsing and data extraction reliably using
cheerio.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/attendance-fetching-bot.git cd attendance-fetching-bot -
Setup env
username: dd: mm: yyyy: passwd:
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Expose port
npm run tunnel
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Setup twilio dashboard
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Start server
npm start