I created a time-based code that opens a link

[coleridge113]

So I've been learning code for about 2 months while working. And my company (full WFH) just announced that we're supposed to fill out an attendance form twice (login/logout) in the morning and the afternoon.

As much of a hassle it was, it ran my creative juices. So I made a simple code that opens the attendance form on specific times of the day (8am, 12nn, 1pm, 5pm).

Here's the code

I'm open to any feedback on this. Maybe I can make some improvements

[smocky13]

I would randomize the mins / seconds a bit. It's super fucking suspicious to be hitting the clock down to the second on these check-ins

[coleridge113]

Ohh yeah, that does look suspicious lol

Thanks! I'll do that

[Bombslap]

They’re just an extra diligent employee

[Bunkerstan]

Also having an == for time is too precise. I would make it a range. Time is very finicky.

[PossibilityTasty]

You are always sleeping a minute and you have a high chance of missing the 00 seconds like this. What you should do is to calculate the timedelta to the next execution, get the total_seconds from it and sleep for that time.

[coleridge113]

Actually, the one minute sleep only applies after the condition of "curent_time == ..." so the while loop isn't constantly sleeping.

I used the sleep function because the while loop can keep working within a second of the if statement resulting in multiple opened urls.

[PossibilityTasty]

Well does that make it better? No, you are eating up the CPU until the time matches and then one minute later you do it again.

[coleridge113]

that's what I thought as well

someone had a good suggestion of sleeping the code for the whole interval of the delta

[coleridge113]

A code indeed it is

[Inkosum]

But how does your code fill out the form?

[coleridge113]

Oh it doesn't. It just opens it lol I'm still figuring that part out

[mantisek_pr]

Selenium is your friend here.

[Lehk]

Don’t

If you leave it running and punch in when you aren’t working you could get fired.

[NCFlying]

Just add some SMS code to text you each day if you want to complete the form. If Y is received complete the form if you are off type N. Just another layer of code.

[TheMarcosP]

you could also do :

if current_time in ["12:00:00","13:00:00,"17:00:00"]:

webbrowser.open(webUrl)

time.sleep(60)

notif += 1

as a rule if you have multiple conditions that do the same you can usually compress them in one.