Galaxy Seat Checker

This script will send an email when it sees that a class in your shopping cart has an open seat.

What it does

1. The script logs into Galaxy using the credentials in user_id
2. It saves the cookies to cookies.txt; this contains the session information
3. It pulls your shopping cart, and saves the html file
4. With a series of greps and cuts, the script assembles an array of your classes
5. If the script sees that one of your classes is open, it sends the info to send_txt.py as an argument

Requirements

• Something that can run BASH
• Python (or whatever you want to send the email)
• Gmail account (if using my Python script)
• Crontab

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ke5gdb/GalaxySeatChecker.git
cd GalaxySeatChecker
touch user_id

In user_id, add two lines

USERID=(your netID)
PASS=(your netID password)

In send_txt.py, add this

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib
import sys 

text = str(sys.argv[1])

server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
server.starttls()
server.login('GMAIL ACCOUNT', 'GMAIL PASS')
server.sendmail('GMAIL ACCOUNT', 'TO EMAIL ADDRESS', 'From: "GalaxySeatChecker" <GMAIL ACCOUNT>\r\nTo: TO EMAIL ADDRESS\r\n\r\n' + text)
server.close()

(PHONE NUMBER)@txt.att.net will send a text to your AT&T phone, if that's your carrier.

Then

chmod +x send_txt.py

The final installation step is to add it to your crontab. */5 * * * * will run it every 5 minutes.

It's very late and I'm very pissed at ECS Undergrad Advising. They're quite useless when you need to enroll in classes, especially when they won't put you on the waitlist. This is the only viable way I can enroll in one of my critical path classes this semester. Yes, there are probably bugs in the code. No, it probably won't work out of the box, but if you're smart enough to read this far, you'll probably figure it out. You should also note that I'm not a great programmer. Good luck, and may you never have to deal with the incompetence known as the advising office again.