USC automatically book appointments

This script helps the user to book automatically appointsments by urban sports club. It might also help iOS or web user to book classes in advance and enjoy the same adventages as the android users.

Disclaimer

Use on own risk. The author is not responsible in for any damage made to your account or to USC.

And of cause, do not use the script if you don't have the approval of USC to access their API.

Installation

It is recommended to create a new virtual environment to run this project.

virtualenv venv

Source the virtual by using the source command and your approtiate active.* file in the ./venv/bin/ directory.

Install the requirements with pip3.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configure

Edit the usc_api.config file for your credentials in the [Credentials] section.

[Credentials]
	# replace with your email
	email = [email protected]
	# replace with your password
	password = uscpassword1

Defining a cron job

To add or update a cron job tip:

crontab -e

This will add a new cron job as your current user. The following line:

SHELL=/bin/bash

0 7 * * TUE,FRI   cd <INSTALL_PATH> && source ./venv/bin/activate && ./uscApiTool.py

Will execute the script provided as the last argument every tuesday and friday at 7:00 am. See a explanation on the syntax here. Replace the <INSTALL_PATH> with the path where this repo is cloned.

If you want to receive a mail with the script output create the following job and replace [email protected] with your mail address:

SHELL=/bin/bash

0 7 * * TUE,FRI   cd <INSTALL_PATH> && source ./venv/bin/activate && ./uscApiTool.py 2>&1 | mail -s "usc auto book -- cron job update" [email protected]