Support Blackboard Ultra

[ejenk0]

Hi!

Thanks for this awesome project. I used it in the past and it worked great, but it seems like it is partially broken in the new Blackboard Ultra system.

For example, this "Assessments" thing is not really a folder, so I think bbfs is failing to treat it as such. I think that these components didn't exist in the previous Blackboard iteration?

Would anyone have the time to update this? Or maybe if you have some idea of hard it would be / where to start I could have a go?

Thanks!!

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BTW: I made this homebrew formula for installing bbfs on MacOS/Linux: https://github.com/ejenk0/homebrew-tap/blob/main/Formula/bbfs.rb

The installation commands are:

brew tap ejenk0/tap
brew install --HEAD ejenk0/tap/bbfs

It enforces dependencies, including MacFUSE.

[stackotter]

Ah yeah, I'm not surprised that the new Blackboard Ultra layout breaks things, because we're just scraping the Blackboard website to get the information required by BBFS. If Blackboard had an API then BBFS probably could've faired the update a bit better, but alas it does not.

Unfortunately I don't have time to update things right now. It shouldn't be too difficult to update BBFS to support Blackboard Ultra if you're comfortable with the basics of web scraping. The most time-consuming part will probably be untangling our horrible scraping code that hasn't been touched since the Hackathon 😅 Happy to give pointers if you do end up taking on the update.

BTW: I made this homebrew formula for installing bbfs on MacOS/Linux: https://github.com/ejenk0/homebrew-tap/blob/main/Formula/bbfs.rb

Sweet! That looks really helpful

[ejenk0]

Ah, no worries @stackotter.

I'll put it on my list of open source project PRs I intend to make one day ^_^