Using BS4 and requests to get the current year's date

[chriscn]

Thinking that Term Dates will keep the same formatting and just using BS4 and requests to get the current date.

Advantages

• No need to manually upload new code as the term dates change

Disadvantages

• Moving over to semesters will need a code rewrite (another reason to dislike them)
• Requires two quite big requirements (make them development requirements)
• Requires active internet connection

Let me know what you think. I'd happily subscribe to an ICS of the Week numbers.

[LukeMoll]

Thanks for your interest!

As far as I'm concerned, having uoyweek run offline only is a big plus - I used it in terminal prompts and the like. Plus since term dates are only added once a year, and several years are known in advance, I don't think it's a disadvantage to ask people to update their version if they've run out of term dates; over the course of a 3-4 year degree, they might have to do this once.

BS4 could be very useful in the tools/ directory to help with parsing the term dates from the website and suggesting code changes.

Thank you for highlighting semesterisation, I'll add that as a separate issue.

I'd wondered about ICS myself (#3 ), but in the meantime, you may be interested in this ICS feed (GitHub).