Selenium script to check a Website for updates

In my 4 years of college, my university never announced the result dates. This being the last year everyone is anxious as the results decide if we get to sit in campus placements.

To save time constantly manually check the Pune University results webpage for updates, i wrote a small selenium script that constantly checks the website for results. This script can be easily generalized to check for an update on any website.

The following script looks for a specific result on the webpage.

	from selenium import webdriver
	import os
	import time
	url = 'http://results.unipune.ac.in/'
	driver = webdriver.Firefox()
	driver.get(url)
	duration = 1 # second
	freq = 440 # Hz
	"""
	Check for a specific change
	"""
	while 1:
	try:
	driver.get(url)
	src1 = driver.page_source
	if "TE2015" in driver.page_source or "TE 2015" in driver.page_source:
	os.system('play --no-show-progress --null --channels 1 synth %s sine %f' % (duration, freq))
	except:
	pass
	time.sleep(20)

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Here's a more generalised version that checks for any change in the webpage contents.

	from selenium import webdriver
	import os
	import time
	url = 'http://results.unipune.ac.in/'
	driver = webdriver.Firefox()
	driver.get(url)
	#beep sound vars
	duration = 1 # second
	freq = 440 # Hz
	"""
	Check for any change
	"""
	srcOld = ""
	srcNew = ""
	while 1:
	try:
	srcOld = srcNew
	driver.get(url)
	srcNew = driver.page_source
	if srcNew != srcOld:
	while(1):
	os.system('play --no-show-progress --null --channels 1 synth %s sine %f' % (duration, freq))
	sleep(1)
	except:
	pass
	time.sleep(20) #Check for updates every 20 seconds

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