Gym Reservation Bot

Overview

A bot that reserves the earliest available time slot at Fitness@MIP and makes a note of the event in a Google Calendar.

Set Up

Unix/Linux

To implement this, clone this repository and follow the steps below:

1. Download the Firefox webdriver, geckodriver, and have it on your PATH

$ wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.29.1/geckodriver-v0.29.1-linux64.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf geckodriver*
$ chmod +x geckodriver
$ sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

2. Create environment variables

$ export EMAIL=your-email@gmail.com
$ export PASSWORD=your-password
$ export DRIVER=/path/to/geckodriver

3. Follow this guide to access Google's Calendar API and move credentials.json to the root of this repository
4. Install the dependencies

$ python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the program

(venv) $ python3 -m bot

6. (Warning) If met with a 403 when trying to access your calendar, refer to this thread
7. (Optional) To automatically run the bot, edit scripts.sh and schedule a cronjob

" runs every Mon-Fri at midnight
0 0 * * 1-5 bash /path/to/scripts.sh

Docker

1. Update ENV variables

ENV EMAIL=your-email@gmail.com
ENV PASSWORD=your-password

2. Build the image

docker build -t gym-bot 

3. Create a container

docker run -ti gym-bot

Configuartion Options

Here is a list and description of the different arguments to use for the bot:

• --headless : Run the bot in headless mode
• --add-event : Create an event in Google Calendar