courspider

Web scraper for U of T courses writing in python3, tested on python 3.5.1

• Currently the only supported calendar is from the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• Calendars from 2011-2012 onwards should work just fine, any older calendars may not work.
• Using the Faculty Calendar, this API will crawl to all the Department calendars, and using each Department Calendar, report back the courses

create_json.py is the file used the generate the included json file, and shows how to use parts of the API

The included courses.json file contains all of the courses in json format. It is in the form:

{
  "courses":[
    {
      "Course distribution requirement": "...",
      "Course name": "...",
      "Course preparation": "...",
      "Course exclusion": "...",
      "Course corequisite": "...",
      "Course prerequisite": "...",
      "Course code": "...",
      "Course breadth requirement": "...",
      "Course description": "...."
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Note that None will appear anywhere where the field does not have a value

Installation:

pip3 install courspider

Dependencies:

beautifulsoup4