WeBeep for Raycast

Browse your WeBeep (the Moodle platform of Politecnico di Milano) courses directly from Raycast: course materials, lecture recordings, announcements, notifications and deadlines.

Commands

Command	Description
Search Courses	Browse your enrolled courses (in progress, past, favourites) and drill into sections, folders, files and links
Search Materials	Search every downloadable file across all courses in progress, filter by course, download or open it
Open Recordings	Jump to the lecture recording archive or the virtual classroom of each course in progress
Read Announcements	Latest posts from the announcements forums of your courses, with the full text in the detail pane
Read Notifications	Your WeBeep notifications (new content, forum posts, deadlines), with mark-all-as-read
Show Upcoming Events	Calendar events and assignment deadlines grouped by day, week and month
Search Course Catalog	Search all WeBeep courses, including the ones you are not enrolled in

Setup

WeBeep uses the Politecnico single sign-on (with two-factor authentication), so the extension cannot log in with a username and password and cannot renew a browser session by itself. Instead it reuses your browser session once to obtain a long-lived Moodle web service token:

1. Log in to webeep.polimi.it in your browser.
2. Copy the value of the MoodleSession cookie:
   • Chrome / Arc / Edge: developer tools (⌥⌘I) → Application → Cookies → https://webeep.polimi.it → double-click the Value of MoodleSession and copy it.
   • Safari: enable the Develop menu (Settings → Advanced), then Develop → Show Web Inspector → Storage → Cookies → webeep.polimi.it.
   • Firefox: developer tools (⌥⌘I) → Storage → Cookies.
   • Any browser: paste javascript:prompt("MoodleSession", document.cookie.match(/MoodleSession=([^;]+)/)[1]) in the address bar of the WeBeep tab and copy the value from the prompt.
3. Open any WeBeep command in Raycast and paste the value in the MoodleSession Cookie preference. Pasting MoodleSession=value or the whole cookie string also works.

The cookie is exchanged once for a Moodle mobile web service token, cached locally, that stays valid for about three months regardless of the browser session. When it expires the commands show a WeBeep login required message: repeat the steps above with a fresh cookie.

Preferences

Preference	Description
MoodleSession Cookie	Browser session cookie, exchanged once for a long-lived token
Content Language	Language used for bilingual course names and resource titles (English or Italian)
Download Directory	Folder where course files are saved (defaults to ~/Downloads)

How it works

WeBeep runs Moodle 4.5 with the mobile web service enabled. The extension:

• exchanges the browser session cookie for a token through admin/tool/mobile/launch.php, the same endpoint used by the official Moodle mobile app, reading the moodlemobile://token=… redirect instead of following it;
• calls the Moodle REST web services (webservice/rest/server.php) for courses, course contents, forums, notifications, calendar events and the site-wide course search;
• downloads files from webservice/pluginfile.php using the token, and opens them in the browser through the regular pluginfile.php URL so your browser session is used and the token never leaves the extension;
• resolves Moodle multi-language tags ({mlang it}…{mlang}{mlang en}…{mlang}) that WeBeep leaves in course and resource names.

Recording archives are detected by name (registrazioni / recording) or by their Polimi service URL; virtual classrooms by their Webex, Zoom, Teams or Meet URL.

Requirements

• macOS
• A Politecnico di Milano account with access to WeBeep