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Wondering why you didn't also automate the process of actually signing up for the seat? Getting notified that a seat is open is helpful but automatically takin
by agentd00nut 9y ago
Wondering why you didn't also automate the process of actually signing up for the seat? Getting notified that a seat is open is helpful but automatically taking the open seat sounds a lot more helpful.
Though at that point you'd have a lot more luck with selenium or some other web driver.
- superdaniel 9y agoSometimes universities have weird rules about automating the actual sign up process versus automating being notified.
- TheGRS 9y agoI wondered that too until I realized it was the Twilio blog, so they would need the use case to fit their particular service.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y agoWould you rather fail to register for an open seat or fail to find an open seat? Maybe I'm biased because I made the same choice as an undergrad, I stopped short of registering for the class automatically.
- XaspR8d 9y agoYeah, automating that next step is making the failure mode much worse.
- saamm 9y agoWe thought about doing that but were scared of the repercussions from the school. We felt like it was much easier to argue for notification than for automatic sign-up. Luckily, we didn't get in any trouble, so we didn't have to argue it anyway.
- ollin 9y agoI was able to get auto-registration working with mechanize a few quarters ago (similar setup to OP); I got into two classes that way! I was just using SMS/emails from UW's provided notification system to trigger the script, though, so I don't think I was actually any faster than other students-just less stressed about watching for notifications.