Hey Team ,
I’m working on PKT quiz app using Streamlit , the functionality is like once 10min timer s reached st.form_submit_button should be clicked automatically and user quiz response should be recorded. I had tried with sesssion_state , but it dint work. Can
someone please advice.?
Hi @Rakshitha,
Welcome to our community; we’re thrilled to have you! 
Do you have a link to the repo?
Thanks,
Charly
Thanks! for the quick response.
But sorry I ll not b able t share repo directly as its internal client use case. Sharing you the code snippet, hope it helps. Kindly revert for any more details! Thanks!
Expectation : Either use should be able t click on form submit button before 10min or once time elapses it should be clicked automatically.
with st.form(‘Take quiz’):
pkt.create_faiss_vectordb(option=False)
quiz_df, quiz_file_name =
pkt.generate_quiz_for_weakcat(quiz_cat, username)
print("--quiz_df-",quiz_df)
print("--------quiz_file_name Take Quiz-----",quiz_file_name)
#latest_file_path = ut.get_latest_file(quiz_quest_ans_path)
st.session_state['quiz_df'] = quiz_file_name
# st.write("---quiz_string---",quiz_file_name)
# quiz_df = ut.save_quiz_to_csv(quiz_string)
for index, row in quiz_df.iterrows():
# st.subheader(f"Question {index + 1}: {row['Question']}")
question = row['Question']
st.write(
f"<p style='font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:
-40px;'> {question}</p>",
unsafe_allow_html=True)
options = row['Options']
answer = row['Answer']
correct = row['Answer']
correct_answer.append(correct)
selected_option = st.radio(" ", options, index=None, key='Q_' +
str(index + 1))
chosen_answer.append(selected_option)
st.session_state['chosen_list'] = chosen_answer
st.session_state['correct_list'] = correct_answer
print("-----chosen_answer1-------", (chosen_answer))
print("----correct_answer1--------", (correct_answer))
st.form_submit_button("Submit",on_click=save_responses)
Hi @Rakshitha 
It sounds like you need an automatic submission of a Streamlit form after a timer expires, is that correct?
If so, Streamlit does not directly support triggering events like form submissions based on a timer. However, you could use an alternative approach with the streamlit Python package and a Python timer. You can use st.session_state to control when to show the form and when to process the submission based on the elapsed time.
I hope that makes sense. Let me know if you need any guidance in building this! 
Best,
Charly
Yeah I did try st.session_state , but its not working as session_state flag is unable to capture user response . Few other approaches which I hav tried and dint work include javascript trigger , Threads and Selenium tool.
Is the code you shared the full code?
Its part of the code , but here s where I wanna implement the logic t auto click on st.form_submit_button(“Submit”,on_click=save_responses) when timer is elapsed.
Could you please share it here, if possible?
It might be more challenging + potentially less accurate to come up with a solution without having access to the full code.
Thanks,
Charly
Okay sharing you the code here :
def update_progress(progress_bar, message, duration):
start_time = time.time()
while time.time() - start_time < duration:
progress = (time.time() - start_time) / duration
progress_bar.progress(progress)
time.sleep(0.1)
progress_bar.empty()
message.empty()
st.session_state.timer = True
with (tabs[1]):
if ready_to_take:
st.session_state.ready_to_take = True
# if st.session_state.ready_to_take:
# Create a placeholder for the user's quiz responses
correct_answer = []
chosen_answer = []
msg = "You have a 10-minute window to complete the quiz!"
progress_bar = st.progress(0)
message = st.empty()
message.warning(msg)
# Run the quiz section in the main thread
with st.form('Take quiz'):
pkt.create_faiss_vectordb(option=False)
quiz_df, quiz_file_name = pkt.generate_quiz_for_weakcat(quiz_cat, username)
print("--quiz_df-",quiz_df)
print("--------quiz_file_name Take Quiz-----",quiz_file_name)
#latest_file_path = ut.get_latest_file(quiz_quest_ans_path)
st.session_state['quiz_df'] = quiz_file_name
# st.write("---quiz_string---",quiz_file_name)
# quiz_df = ut.save_quiz_to_csv(quiz_string)
for index, row in quiz_df.iterrows():
# st.subheader(f"Question {index + 1}: {row['Question']}")
question = row['Question']
st.write(
f"<p style='font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: -40px;'> {question}</p>",
unsafe_allow_html=True)
options = row['Options']
answer = row['Answer']
correct = row['Answer']
correct_answer.append(correct)
selected_option = st.radio(" ", options, index=None, key='Q_' + str(index + 1))
chosen_answer.append(selected_option)
st.session_state['chosen_list'] = chosen_answer
st.session_state['correct_list'] = correct_answer
print("-----chosen_answer1-------", (chosen_answer))
print("----correct_answer1--------", (correct_answer))
#submit_button = st.form_submit_button("Submit",on_click=save_responses)
# Start the progress bar and timer
update_progress(progress_bar, timer_message, 10)
if st.session_state.timer:
submit_button = True
print("-----Auto CLick----")
Thanks for sending, @Rakshitha! 
Based on our code, I’ve tried several app variations trying to create a timer and leveraging session state. I haven’t come to anything satisfying enough yet, but I’ll keep trying and will keep you posted.
Best,
Charly
Thanks for your effort! Please revert if you find any solution!
Good Day!