Automatic roster downloading

A script to automatically download rosters from https://my.cs.illinois.edu/classtools. Super hacky, so don't judge plz.

Installation

On EWS

You have two options. You can either use 233's pyenv installation and then use the virtualenv method (below), or use EWS's Python 3 module (the Python 2.7 module has a broken pip, and Python 3 is superior anyway):

module load python3
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

You'll have to repeat the

module load python3

every new shell session, or just add it to your ~/.bashrc (or the configuration file of whatever shell you use).

Using virtualenv

If you're familiar with virtualenv, you can use it to set up an isolated environment for the script:

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

And then activate the virtual environment whenever you want to use the script:

source venv/bin/activate

And deactivate it when you're done:

deactivate

If you're not familiar with virtualenv, it might be worth learning; GIYF.

Using a regular pip install

Just do

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

and you should be good to go. You may want to use the --user option for pip3 install if you don't want to add to the global packages (or if you don't have the access rights to do so).

Usage

Refer to

./download_roster.py -h

Help

Feel free to shoot me an email at meenai1@illinois.edu or file an issue. Pull requests to make this not horribly hacky/fragile are also welcome.