Kahoot Utilites

Today I continued to mess around a bit with the pyinstaller executables. I also edited the bot scripts a little to make them a bit more professional (like not printing out the whole json api request for each bot). I had some issues generating the tar.gz archive for Linux (couldn't extract it on Ubuntu for some reason?) so I generated it with Windows :( . I then made a github release for it, so I think this thing is ready to ship!

Polished the scripts a bit, and made a bash script that uses pyinstaller to generate the binaries for the different scripts. It works, though I had some trouble with the bash syntax (I didn't realize whitespaces are important).

Today I worked on the third version of the pin scanner. I optimized it a little bit, and then mainly worked on the console ui. I used rich to create a live table with the discovered active pins, which is automatically sorted and updated, which also includes a progress percentage. Apart from that I also did some styling to making it look a bit nicer.

Spent two days working on this project. I first added two different scripts (main.py and names.py) that can add bots to kahoot games. The first one, main.py lets you input a text (lyrics or whatever) and spawns a bot for each word, so the text shows up in the lobby. The second one, names.py spawns a set number of bots with auto generated usernames from https://randomuser.me/. I then started working on a pin scanner, so I could join open kahoot games. The first attempt (getpins.py) scans pins synchronously and is very slow. The second attempt (getpinsasync.py) scans them asynchronously so it is much faster. The third attempt (pinscanner.py) has similar fast speeds but uses multiprocessing instead. They scan for games that have started less than ~~10 min ago, and then output the pins. Usually if the game has started less the ~~3/4 min ago then it will still be open and you will be able to join with your bots!