Laundry machine information

[simon-andrews]

Information on residence hall laundry machines can be found at http://umassamherst.laundrytracker.com.

Relevant video tutorial: https://youtu.be/FQEqHkOwNdk?t=1m34s

This whole website seems like a big ol' JavaScript mess that will be impossible to simply parse with BeautifulSoup. I haven't looked into this very hard yet so I don't know the best way to attack this problem. Things worth investigating:

• Is there some simple API underneath it all we can use? Sort of like People Finder.
• Do the laundry machines themselves have some way of serving up machine-friendly information? Actually they must since they send information to laundrytracker.com, but is it something we can hook into easily?
• Are we just gonna have to use Selenium and simulate a browser? (I really really really don't want to do this, but it might be the most realistic way. Also, I'm pretty sure that SPIRE support is going to require Selenium, so it's gonna be added as a dependency eventually anyway.