GATech Application Status Checker.py

import mechanize
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

USERNAME = "foo@bar.com"
PASSWORD = "quxadux"

def main():
    browser = mechanize.Browser()

    print "Opening login page..."
    browser.open("https://www.applyweb.com/cgi-bin/ustat?gatechg")
    browser.open("https://www.applyweb.com/shibboleth/gatekeeper?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.applyweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fustat%3Fgatechg")

    browser.select_form(nr=0)
    browser["j_username"] = USERNAME
    browser["j_password"] = PASSWORD

    print "Logging in..."
    response = browser.submit()

    browser.select_form(nr=0)

    print "Redirecting..."
    browser.submit()

    response  = browser.open("https://www.applyweb.com/cgi-bin/ustat?app_code=gatechg")
    response = response.read()

    soup = BeautifulSoup(response)

    status = soup.findAll('span', attrs={"class":"ufe-ustat-checklist-label"}, text="Application Status")[0].parent.parent.findNextSibling().text
    print "Application Status: %s" % status

    for note in soup.findAll(text="Note from Graduate Admissions"):
        print "Note from Graduate Admissions:\n%s" % note.parent.parent.findNextSibling().text


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Haha, we totally should have touched base. Nice though! I like it a lot.

(That login redirect stuff was nonsense.)

Ha, tell me about it. It also wasn't made any easier by the fact that I had a typo in my username and could not figure out for quite some time why I couldn't get the login to work...