MeetBot is an easy-to-use user-friendly proxy bot who can act as your substitute and attend online meetings or classes hosted on Microsoft Teams.

It only takes 3 commands to install and run MeetBot on Ubuntu/Debian:

./ubuntu.sh && ./pip.sh

./server.sh on terminal 1

./worker.sh on terminal 2

Same installation has been explained below.

git clone https://github.com/satyamx/meetbot

cd meetbot

The first step on Ubuntu/Debian is pretty straightforward.

./ubuntu.sh

Note that you need to be in the parent meetbot directory before running these scripts as they are path dependent. Running ./meetbot/ubuntu.sh will throw errors.

Manually install chromedriver, its dependencies and move chromedriver to /usr/bin/. The executable path in MeetBot's webdriver is /usr/bin/chromedriver

Also install python3, python3-pip, python3-venv and redis-server.

./pip.sh

Note that you need to be in the parent meetbot directory before running these scripts as they are path dependent. Running ./meetbot/pip.sh will throw errors.

You need to open two separate terminals and run ./server.sh and ./worker.sh

Run ./server.sh on terminal 1 and go to http://localhost:5000/, you'll be prompted to log in if you're using meetbot for the first time or have deleted data from meetbot/database.db.

Run ./worker.sh and do not close until all your tasks (lectures) have been executed.

• None of your data (user credentials and team names) is stored anywhere on cloud. Your data is stored locally on your computer at meetbot/database.db and only you can access it.

• As stressed earlier, running ./meetbot/server.sh or ./meetbot/worker.sh will throw errors. You need to cd into the parent meetbot directory using cd meetbot before running any of these scripts.

• You can send multiple tasks, but the worker executes the tasks on first come first serve basis. Make sure you send the task to attend an 8AM lecture before the task for 10AM and so on.

• The worker and server are separate and don't depend on each other. You don't need to run both ./server.sh and ./worker.sh together for meetbot to work.

• You can run only the server to send a task, close the server and run the worker anytime before your first lecture starts.

• It is, however, recommended to keep the worker running while sending a task to confirm its proper functionality in real-time.

Note that you do not need to install any of these features and are optional. Additionally, these features can potentionally show bugs.

Install supervisor on your system.

Ubuntu/Debian users can do so using sudo apt-get install supervisor

Make sure you're in the parent meetbot directory and run the following commands to set up Celery on Supervisor

meetbot=$(pwd)

Download this script and run the following:

mv supervisor.sh $meetbot && cd $meetbot
chmod 755 supervisor.sh && ./supervisor.sh

Now go to meetbot/two.py and uncomment the following:

# options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
# options.add_argument("--headless")
# options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
# driver.set_window_size(1280, 1440)

This should set up your worker in background using headless mode.