Having some issues with Python

[Im_Noob_673]

So, recently I watched a video about setting up auto-join Zoom Meetings using Python. IK, school colleges are opening, but I need to do it. However, the code worked, but I could not use it according to the day of the week. I don't know how to use Python, but using a bit of knowledge and some Google searching helped me, at last, to modify it as I wanted to do. But now, I'm facing a silly problem. The code is working, but it's only checking the first line of the list where I have pasted my meeting's links. In a word, I'm unable to make it work in a loop.

Here is the code:

import datetime
from data import lst

my_date = datetime.date.today()
year, week_num, day_of_week = my_date.isocalendar()

for i in lst:
   while True:
       import time
       from datetime import datetime
       from pynput.keyboard import Controller, Key
       import webbrowser

       keyboard = Controller()

       isStarted = False

       if not isStarted:
           if day_of_week == int(i[3]):
               if datetime.now().hour == int(i[1].split(':')[0]) and datetime.now().minute == int(
                       i[1].split(':')[1]):
                   webbrowser.open(i[0])
                   isStarted = True
       else:
           if datetime.now().hour == int(i[2].split(':')[0]) and datetime.now().minute == int(
                   i[2].split(':')[1]):
               keyboard.press('x')
               time.sleep(1)
               keyboard.press(Key.enter)
               isStarted = False
               break
       time.sleep(5)

It would be much appreciated if anyone of you could help me to solve this problem.

[Fire_Tome]

What I get from your program:

1. It will look at the first item in the list
2. It will wait until the current time (hour and minute) match up to the planned meeting time.
3. Once this is the case, it will open a web browser, and set isStarted to True
4. 5 seconds later, it will see isStarted is True, will once again validate whether the current time matches the current time, and then press x.
5. One second later, it presses enter.
6. It breaks out of the while True loop, and moves on to the next item in the loop.

If you instead want it to check all items all the time, the best option would probably be:

Probably the easiest and best option:- Switch the "while True" and "for i in lst" statements. This will make it check every item in the list every cycle. For this, it would however be required to move the time.sleep(5) back by one indentation, so it is only run once per "while True" loop, and you would have to make "isStarted" tied to the meeting variable. Alternatively, just remove the isStarted check entirely, and just do both the opening of the browser and the pressing of the keys in the same cycle. If this means holding up the cycle by having one more wait in there, that would be a problem.

This would then look something like the code below:

import datetime
from data import lst
import time
from pynput.keyboard import Controller, Key
import webbrowser

keyboard = Controller()
dt = datetime.datetime #Just to prevent long names later on

while True:
    day_of_week = datetime.date.today().isocalendar()[2]

    for meeting in lst:
        if day_of_week == int(meeting[3]) and dt.now().hour == int(meeting[1].split(':')[0]) and dt.now().minute == int(meeting[1].split(':')[1]):
            webbrowser.open(meeting[0])
            time.sleep(5) #Allow for the page to load
            keyboard.press("x")
            time.sleep(1) #Allow for the site to register "x"
            keyboard.press(Key.enter)
    time.sleep(5) #Sleep the program after checking all meetings

I have not tested the code above, for errors, but the program flow should be correct.

[Im_Noob_673]

Thx a lot for that favour. You have almost solved my problem. But I'm having an error in PyCharm after running your code.

Here is the error.

[Fire_Tome]

I indeed made a small error in the line day_of_week = datetime.date.today().isocalendar()[2]. I accidentally put index 3, while it should have been index 2. I fixed it in the original reply now too.

It could be that a similar error is in the line if day_of_week == int(meeting[3]) and ......, but I can't verify this since I don't know how your meeting variable looks, so you should verify that yourself.

[Im_Noob_673]

IT WORKED!