Script that takes one argument (a class id) and tells you how many seats are available for the class at University of Cincinnati.

checkClass.sh

#!/bin/bash
curl 'https://webapps2.uc.edu/scheduleofclasses/Details.asmx/Class' -H 'Pragma: no-cache' -H 'Origin: https://webapps2.uc.edu' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch' -H 'Host: webapps2.uc.edu' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1568.0 Safari/537.36' -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' -H 'Cookie: __qca=P0-1621544612-1365361687310; ASP.NET_SessionId=gnsrz1rul2nvx51h4f2zblzq; webapps2uceducookie=ey5hOkc7j+t/KpNyYpKoOeYlNKHEwOQcVbv8g/JMr5HSxFjEI92jFDEib/DGPIvDXNRCeVWiP7lgUQ==; CookiesChecked=true; .ASPXAUTH=6A0499BF7BCD661E80CA972504265E9A47B8E972104A357E8BB09E3EA29D7E91A9E83E9EC27F80EE8BD798A4785B2B7A5E13C21E5F19379EB2C9F0518CC9338B3043B731C82959DC8101524738A70257E92F0B9BC0773037CD1100817828E862321B5241746AFFB3234DA4B4E4A9AFD06BF8B85B; __RequestVerificationToken_L1N0dWRlbnRJQVBSZXZpZXc_=qhB91oG/zb+WOPttgkPTwInScUeuMjLQA3fFLb3h5q+ooZYr7iuOrwuYo2iWdz/dgaZrgGMDFXlNxtBf1HZe8ZQ92iywNaGv736kIN92IhPAPi53yDsyvHkYwPJvhbYGTe/iZw==; SessionPersistence-publish=CLIENTCONTEXT%3A%3DvisitorId%3D%2CvisitorId_xss%3D%7CPROFILEDATA%3A%3D%7C; __utma=2905140.1418251989.1353716870.1374616233.1374618222.10; __utmc=2905140; __utmz=2905140.1374618222.10.5.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided); s_cc=true; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Referer: https://webapps2.uc.edu/scheduleofclasses/' --data-binary "{ classId: $1 }" --compressed | egrep -o "Seats Available: \w*"