Rutgers Course Notifier

This project is based on the discord-course-notifier (archived) webhook.
Currently, this bot only supports fetching information for the New Brunswick campus of Fall 2021.

Ingesting Data (ingest_db.py)

It would be a waste of time searching through a large dump file every time a course is added to notify. The MongoDB database ingests only necessary information (and some optional values for future enhancements) for fast access times.

This script is available here.

Run python3 ingest_db.py --help for arguments.

Usage

Once the MongoDB cluster has been populated:

1. Fill in the values in SAMPLE.env and remove SAMPLE from the filename.
2. Run: npm install
3. Start the bot: npm start

Endpoints

Rutgers uses the following endpoints in the Schedule of Classes:

Course Information:

https://sis.rutgers.edu/soc/api/courses.json?year=YEAR&term=TERM&campus=CAMPUS

Open Courses

Responds with a list containing index numbers for open sections.
https://sis.rutgers.edu/soc/api/openSections.json?year=YEAR&term=TERM&campus=CAMPUS

URL Parameters:

TERM (Integer):

• 1 - Spring
• 7 - Summer
• 9 - Fall
• 0 - Winter

Don't ask me why these numbers are random.

YEAR (Integer)

• A year.

CAMPUS (String):

• NB - New Brunswick
• NK - Newark
• CM - Camden
• ONLINE_NB - New Brunswick - Online and Remote Instruction Courses
• ONLINE_NK - Newark - Online and Remote Instruction Courses
• ONLINE_CM - Camden - Online and Remote Instruction Courses
• B - Burlington County Community College - Mt Laurel
• CC - Camden County College - Blackwood Campus
• H - County College of Morris
• CU - Cumberland County College
• MC - Denville - RU-Morris
• WM - Freehold WMHEC - RU-BCC
• L - Lincroft - RU-BCC
• AC - Mays Landing - RU-ACCC
• J - McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst RU-JBMDL
• D - Mercer County Community College
• RV - North Branch - RU-RVCC

License

The source code for this project is licensed under the MIT License.