This script is for Claremont Colleges students who are annoyed by having to constantly check whether people have dropped classes and whether a class has reopened.
It scrapes data from hyperschedule.io and tracks the courses listed in a file
called watch_list.txt. You write courses in the format DEPT NUM SCHOOL-SECTION where DEPT is the department code (e.g. CSCI for Computer
SCIence), NUM is the 3- or 4-digit course code (e.g. 054 for Discrete), SCHOOL
is the two-letter code corresponding to school (PO, CM, HM, SC, PZ; or JT, AA,
etc for joint programs), and SECTION is the two-digit section number (01, 02,
etc).
On the first run, it creates a file called enrollment.json that contains the
relevent data for the course. On subsequent runs, the script will compare the
current data furnished by hyperschedule.io's API to that contained in the json.
If anything is different, it'll notify you in console and modify the JSON file.
By default, the script checks every hour. You can change this by calling
start_watch() with a parameter defining how long it should wait before
checks. You may also have a delay of 0, add start_watch() to the end of this
file, and control how often the script runs with a cron job.