This course tracker utilises puppeteer to scrape the NYU public course search via a headless browser for your desired class and check its status. It sends you an alert via telegram when the class opens up. I used this program to track a class for about a month and was finally able to enroll once I got an alert that it opened up. I hope this little program proves useful to you. Please see usage guide below for instructions.
Clone the repo or download a zip and open it up in your desired IDE. Then, run the following command in your root to install all dependencies.
Then, open up index.js and edit the following values.
To find the course category and number, visit this link: https://sis.nyu.edu/psc/csprod/EMPLOYEE/SA/c/NYU_SR.NYU_CLS_SRCH.GBL?& and find your category.
Then, click on it, and find your class. Copy the number. Make sure you are copying the correct one.
Update the information in index.js.
Then, all you have to do is run the file and pray.
The bot currently checks for a closed class that becomes open. If you would like to check for a closed class that is likely to open up directly into a waitlist, then go to scraper.js and change the conditional on line 51 to:
I have opted to not do it this way by default because I am not sure if classes even open up into a waitlist, and it is therefore untested. It could cause a lot of unnecessary telegram alerts if it always detects a class rotating between closed and waitlist.
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