From e4b7eaa67cdd6982dae8d32e52aa8c4bcdc56677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zainuldeen <104352655+zainuldeen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:57:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] removed: all ss before crawling

---
 src/index.ts    |  6 ++++--
 src/lib/util.ts | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 44e554448..70ffcef9e 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 dotenv.config();
 
 import { intro, outro, spinner, select } from '@clack/prompts';
-import { delay, replaceAll, sleep } from './lib/util';
+import { delay, replaceAll, sleep, clearFolder } from './lib/util';
 import { scrapeMetaData } from './scrapper/meta_data';
 
 import { write_metadata, writeTimetableData, calculateTeachersTimetable, calculatePastTimetableInputOptions, calculateRoomsTimeTable } from './lib/firebase';
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ else if(option as CLI_OPTIONS == CLI_OPTIONS.rooms_timetable)
 if ((option as CLI_OPTIONS) != CLI_OPTIONS.crawler)
     process.exit(0)
 
+// removes all screen shots
+clearFolder("/dist")
+
 /// INTRO
 
 intro('Welcome to LGU Timetable Crawler 🤖');
@@ -78,7 +81,6 @@ const intro_cli = async () => {
 await intro_cli();
 
 var metaData = undefined;
-
 var hasCache = existsSync(CACHE_FILE_NAME);
 
 if (hasCache) {
diff --git a/src/lib/util.ts b/src/lib/util.ts
index b36eb701e..83bfa7e55 100644
--- a/src/lib/util.ts
+++ b/src/lib/util.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import { readdirSync, unlinkSync } from "fs"
+import { join } from "path"
+
 /**
     Stops the main thread for given time 
     @param number of seconds
@@ -43,3 +46,13 @@ export function shouldExcludeStr(str: string | undefined) {
     return typeof str !== 'string' || str.length == 0 ||
         potentialInvalidFlags.filter(flag => str.toLocaleLowerCase().includes(flag)).length > 0
 }
+
+/**
+ * removes all files from the given folder path
+ * @param string path of folder
+ */
+export function clearFolder(folderPath: string) {
+    readdirSync(folderPath).forEach(file=> unlinkSync(join (folderPath, file)))
+}
+
+

From 8dfc42cba1e000a393626cc2e50a24f4187b62d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zainuldeen <104352655+zainuldeen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:59:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] added: relative path

---
 src/index.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 70ffcef9e..774bc0dab 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ if ((option as CLI_OPTIONS) != CLI_OPTIONS.crawler)
     process.exit(0)
 
 // removes all screen shots
-clearFolder("/dist")
+clearFolder("./dist")
 
 /// INTRO