The CSULB Schedule Generator is a personal Python project that is designed to streamline the process of creating a personalized course schedule for your academic semester. It accomplishes this by scraping information from California State University, Long Beach's course catalog and then generating all possible combinations of schedules while ensuring that there are no time conflicts in between each course.
The goal of this generator is to make schedule planning for CSULB easier, faster, and more accessible for students.
- The generator utilizes web scraping to fetch course information from CSULB's course catalog.
- It parses HTML content from each webpage using BeautifulSoup to extract relevant data.
- Every course's information (course code, title, units, class number, course type, days, times, location, instructor, etc.) is saved to a text file.
- The data is also stored in a SQLite database for later use.
- You can filter the course data by selecting certain courses you want to take.
- After doing so, the generator interefaces with the "combo_generator" module to provide schedule combinations of available courses that avoid time conflicts.
Pros:
- CSULB Schedule Generator does not require student login, therefore easier access.
- Less steps, therefore faster process.
- According to other students, CSULB's Schedule Planner can sometimes have glitches.
Cons:
- Must webscrape CSULB's course catalog while CSULB's Schedule Planner has direct access to the data.
- CSULB's Schedule Planner is able to directly import the courses from your planned schedule into your enrollment shopping cart.
- pip install requests
- pip install beautifulsoup4
This project was created for educational/demonstrative purposes. I have no affiliation with any of CSULB's sites and neither I nor the software will be held liable for any consequences resulting from its use. I take no responsibility for what others do with the code and do not advise for insane scraping of websites.