TUM Library Checker

Only for educational purposes

This repository contains a crawler to save bookings for TUM libraries in a CSV file.

Sample data from 2021-12-11 to 2022-01-08 can be found here. The data is very diverse due to the Christmas break.

A quick visualization can be found in this notebook.

How to run

Clone the repository.

(optional) Create a Python 3.9 virtual environment and source it.

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

(optional) Create a custom .env file and edit it (otherwise, default values are used).

cp template.env .env

URL="https://www.ub.tum.de/en/reserve-study-desks"
DATA_PATH="data"

Run the crawler once. The CSV is saved in the data path directory.

python run_crawler.py

(optional) Create a cron job that runs the crawler periodically.

* * * * * REPO_PATH/venv/bin/python REPO_PATH/run_crawler.py

TODO

• Analyse the data
• Create a bot to make reservations (only for educational purposes)