Elective

PKU Course Selection (选课网) CLI tool built in Rust. Use this skill when working on the elective crate, debugging elective commands, adding features, or when the user mentions 选课, elective, course selection, auto-enroll, CAPTCHA solving, dual-degree, or elective.pku.edu.cn. Also use when dealing with CAPTCHA recognition backends (utool/ttshitu/yunma), automated course enrollment loops, or elective SSO callback. **NOT for general course schedule / 课表 / 这学期上什么课 questions — use the treehole skill (treehole course) instead, which gives a unified weekly grid with 主修+辅修+双学位. The elective show command only sees one program at a time and easily misses courses from the other program for dual-degree students.**

Elective - 北大选课网 CLI

A CLI client for PKU's course selection system with auto-enrollment automation.

Architecture

• Crate location: crates/elective/
• Auth flow: IAAA SSO (app_id="elective") → elective SSO endpoint callback
• API: HTML scraping + CAPTCHA handling (base64 image recognition)
• Automation: Polling loop for auto-enrollment with configurable interval

Key Source Files

• src/main.rs — Clap CLI with subcommands
• src/commands.rs — Command implementations including auto-enroll loop
• src/api.rs — HTML scraping, CAPTCHA image extraction
• src/display.rs — Terminal output formatting
• src/client.rs — reqwest client builders

CLI Commands

Command	Alias	Function
login		IAAA login (supports --dual for dual-degree students)
logout / status		Session management
show		View current course selections
list	ls	Browse available courses for add/drop
set		Add a course to auto-enroll target list
unset		Remove from auto-enroll targets
config-captcha		Configure CAPTCHA solver backend
launch		Start auto-enrollment polling loop
otp		TOTP 2FA management

CAPTCHA Backends

The config-captcha command supports multiple recognition backends:

• manual — Display CAPTCHA image, user inputs answer
• utool — UTool OCR service
• ttshitu — TTShiTu recognition API
• yunma — Yunma recognition API

Auto-Login for AI Agents

bash

# Check session status
info-auth check

# Auto-login (reads credentials from OS keyring, no password needed)
elective login -p                  # single degree
elective login -p --dual major     # dual degree - major
elective login -p --dual minor     # dual degree - minor

Note: Dual-degree students MUST specify --dual major or --dual minor, otherwise login will fail with an error.

Development Notes

• Auto-enrollment loop: configurable check interval (default 15s), polls for open slots
• Dual-degree students use --dual flag at login for separate session
• CAPTCHA images are base64-encoded, decoded and sent to recognition backend
• All user-facing strings in Chinese
• Error handling: anyhow::Result with .context("中文描述")
• Session persisted to ~/.config/info/elective/
• Credentials resolved via info_common::credential (keyring → env → interactive)