Ever wanted to play badminton at a certain time? Have you tried looking for court reservations on https://bintangbadminton.org/court-reservations/? If yes, you've probably seen this:

You're looking for courts and their availability, only to click through this nightmare: 😱🙀

That's OK! With a few easy steps, you can now be viewing court schedules with buttery smoothness:

Command line tool

Installation

pip install bintang-buddy

The steps are straightforward and very human.

Try running the commands below:

bintang-buddy -d "2022-01-13" -g "milpitas" -g "sunnyvale"

This script has two arguments:

-d: Date string, in the form of YYYY-MM-DD
-g: The names of the gyms you'd like to load court schedules for. If you leave this empty you'll get every court for every gym, and you'll be waiting for a while. Your choices: campbell, dublin, milpitas, san carlos, sunnyvale.

This is a fork of teoh/bintang-buddy which provided a lot of the base functionality (kudos!). However,

teoh/bintang-buddy required users to clone the repository, create a virtual environment, activate it, install the project inside the virtual environment, obtain a Bearer token, set an environment variable with the Bearer token and run a Python script.
This process was quite involved even for a moderately technical person.

This fork, however:

Creates an easy-to-use CLI based on click which is published to pypi. The CLI can be installed through a single command and is ready to go.
Removes the need to manually (and painstakingly) obtain a Bearer token for authentication (as described here). This is now done automatically behind the scenes.
Uses multithreading to significantly reduce load times.
Uses linting and formatting tools to keep code clean and organized.
The goal is to eventually merge changes from this repository back into teoh/bintang-buddy.