Gym Booking Bot

PublishedOctober 7, 2023

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💪 I wrote a Python script that automates my gym time bookings at midnight everyday.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gyms in Ontario have implemented an online sign-up system that requires members to book for a specific workout time.
The gym I go to allow members to start booking their gym times at midnight everyday, which is an inconvenient time for me.
So, I decided to create a bot that does it for me.

Tools/Technologies:

Selenium WebDriver
Amazon EC2

How I built it:

➡️ I web-scraped my gym's website by inspecting its HTML elements.
➡️ I used Selenium to automate the booking process, more specifically, I used ChromeDriver which is a standalone server that is used by Selenium WebDriver to control tests on Chrome.
➡️ I set up an AWS EC2 instance that runs the script on the cloud.
➡️ I installed Putty to allow me to connect to the instance.
➡️ I scheduled a cron job that automatically runs the script at a specified time in my AWS EC2 instance.

To use:

➡️ Clone this repo and set up your local copy of the repository.
➡️ Download ChromeDriver so you can run the automated script on Chrome.
➡️ To create, launch, and connect to an AWS EC2 instance, follow this useful guide here
➡️ If you do not wish to run the script on the cloud, you can set up a task scheduler (Windows only) and it will run the script only if your machine is turned on

Now you can get your gym booking while being sound asleep!

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