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University of Washington Course Catalog

This script extracts courses from the University of Washington course catalog and exports them to CSV. The script works by searching for department links for each campus from the following web pages:

Each department web page is analyzed with a DOM parser and regular expressions for course codes, names, credits, areas of knowledge, prerequisites, and quarters during which the course is offered.

The --campus and --department_link command line flags may be used to limit the data extracted by the script. Use the --help flag for more details.

The CSV has the following format:

  • Campus
  • Department
  • Course Code
  • Course Name
  • Credits
  • Areas of Knowledge
  • Prerequisites
  • Offered

For example, the raw CSV may have data such as the following:

Campus,Department,Code,Name,Credits,Areas of Knowledge,Prerequisites,Offered
Bothell,B AACT,501,Accounting Theory,4,,,
Bothell,B BIO,232,"Embryos, Genes and Reproductive Technology",5,"I&S,NW",,
Seattle,A A,101,Air and Space Vehicles,5,NW,,
Seattle,E E,235,Continuous Time Linear Systems,5,,"AMATH 351,CSE 142,CSE 143,MATH 136,MATH 307,PHYS 122","A,W,Sp"
Seattle,PHARM,592,Pharmacy Practice IV: Design and Analysis of Medical Studies,3,,"PHARM 584,PHARM 585,PHARM 586",A
Tacoma,T ACCT,210,Financial Accounting I: Users Approach to Accounting,5,,,A
Tacoma,TWRT,391,Advanced Technical Communication,5,VLPA,TWRT 291,

As a table, this data has this appearance:

Campus Department Code Name Credits Areas of Knowledge Prerequisites Offered
Bothell B AACT 501 Accounting Theory 4
Bothell B BIO 232 Embryos, Genes and Reproductive Technology 5 I&S,NW
Seattle A A 101 Air and Space Vehicles 5 NW
Seattle E E 235 Continuous Time Linear Systems 5 AMATH 351,CSE 142,CSE 143,MATH 136,MATH 307,PHYS 122 A,W,Sp
Seattle PHARM 592 Pharmacy Practice IV: Design and Analysis of Medical Studies 3 PHARM 584,PHARM 585,PHARM 586
Tacoma T ACCT 210 Financial Accounting I: Users Approach to Accounting 5 A
Tacoma TWRT 391 Advanced Technical Communication 5 VLPA TWRT 291

The output has been uploaded for those not able or willing to run the script.

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