The gymchecker repository is a collection of scripts to be used with the AWS Lambda and DynamoDB services to monitor and analyse the occupancy of the St Andrews Athletic Union Gym over time.

• aws_function.py

  • An AWS Lambda script that scrapes the HTML text of my local gym for its current capacity, and uploads that value to an AWS DynamoDB entity. Requires a virtualenv to run, as it requires the Requests library to be installed.

• database_class.py

  • A python file describing the databaseObject class, which is used to download and locally store the data from the AWS DynamoDB entity, for further use.

• update_aws_package.sh

  • A shell script that updates the data/aws_package.zip file to be uploaded to the AWS Lambda function, by creating a VirtualEnv, downloading the required dependencies, zipping them up along with the aws_function.py script, and then deleting the VirtualEnv.

• data/

  • The data/ folder currently holds data files, such as an example response from the AWS DynamoDB entity, and the aws_package.zip file.

• demos/

  • The demos/ directory holds scripts that are still in experimental stages and are not yet ready to be considered part of the main program, as well as proof-of-concept scripts.