The “reddit uiuc-bot”, u/uiuc-bot, is designed to serve the r/uiuc community – one of the largest college-based reddit communities – with commonly used shorthand and other helpful tasks.
The first ability the u/uiuc-bot provides is fetching information on classes offered here at Illinois. The r/uiuc-bot will be called by post substrings that match any of the following formats:
[cs225], will call me,[Cs225], I’m not that case-sensitivity,[CS 225], a space between the subject and course is fine,[31208], and so is a five-digit CRNAdditionally, the bot now replies to messages sent to it in the same format! (Added via PR from John Lay.)
The source code for the bot is an open-source project hosted on github @illinois:
