Course Sniper

Discord bot to aid in getting into courses that are full at the start of the term at the University of Waterloo. Major features include:

• Realtime opening detection and notification
• Multiple selections
• More to come (maybe)

Usage

To start, clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/sh13m/course-sniper
cd course-sniper

Create a venv for the discord bot

python -m venv discord-bot

Install required dependencies in the venv

./discord-bot/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt 

Run run.sh to start the bot, output will be passed to the my.log file

bash run.sh

Run stop.sh to stop the bot

bash stop.sh

Basic Configuration

Make sure to have environment variables for the discord bot Token, the server notification channel ID and the user ID of yourself. Currently, courses are selected by modifying the variables in course_sniper.py. Be aware that the SECTION values don't match up the actual section of the course, but rather the row of the table on the course catalogue website.

I will most likely change this in the future to be more user friendly if I ever stop being lazy and get to it.