grajat90 / zoombot

A simple python bot to automate entering and exiting zoom meetings/online classes.

zoom meetings bot

automate entering and exiting zoom meeting. can be placed on an external computer or raspberry pi

This script:

• enters the zoom meeting automatically with the given link or meeting id.
• enters using your specified name in non audio video mode
• exits the zoom meeting after a specified time

Quick start

• This needs chrome/chromium installed in the regular default location of the system.
• You'll need chromedriver for this to work along with selenium. Visit https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads to get the chromedriver for your version of chrome/chromium and os except raspberry pi.
• If running on raspberry pi, visit https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/chromium-chromedriver for the chromedriver and find the newest version for armhf, install both the release and update deb packages and then run

$ sudo apt upgrade -y.

This will install the chromedriver in the location

/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver

• Install selenium using pip install selenium
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/grajat90/zoombot.git.
• Download from Github.

Usage

$ python zoom_bot.py [zoom invite url/Meeting-ID] [Entering Name] [duration] [chromedriver location] -h

• [entering name] : The name displayed on entering the meeting
• [duration] : duration after which the bot leaves the meeting (in minutes). Defaults to 50 mins.
• [chromedriver location] : path to the chromedriver file (defaults to the current directory of python script)
• -h : headless mode, i.e., bot doesn't show a chrome window works in the background and exits the process once done. always include this tag at the absolute end only.

Examples:

$ python zoom_bot.py 123456789 john smith 45 -h

$ python zoom_bot.py https://us04web.zoom.us/j/123456789 john smith /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver

** The order of arguments must be retained**

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