CourseNotifier is a Python application that watches course availability and sends SMS alerts when seats open up. It automates a frustrating student workflow and turns it into a configurable, reliable monitoring tool with modular components, scheduled checks, and duplicate-alert prevention for longer-running use.
Designed to monitor course pages continuously in the background.
Alerts go straight to a phone so the user can act fast when a seat opens.
Behavior is driven through environment variables instead of code edits.
This project is compelling because it solves a real annoyance with automation that is small, practical, and immediately useful. Instead of asking a user to keep checking a course page all day, the system watches for them and only interrupts when it matters.
It is a nice example of software value that comes from saving time and attention, not from making something flashy.
Course codes, credentials, intervals, and notifier settings come from the environment.
Selenium opens the university flow, logs in if needed, and reads course availability.
The scraper decides whether a monitored course has open seats worth alerting on.
Twilio sends an SMS and duplicate prevention avoids spamming repeat alerts.