ucbschedule
Code for scraping data from the UC Berkeley Schedule of Classes and analyzing it.
Requirements
The project requires Python 2.6 or 2.7 (untested with other versions), as well as several Python packages, including BeautifulSoup, Requests, and Flask.
Scraping
Use runscraper.py to run the scrapers. There are two:
- Department scraper (
dept_scraper.py): Scrapes department names and abbreviations from ScheduleBuilder. - Section scraper (
section_scraper.py): Scrapes all info from the UCB Schedule of Classes for today.
Web Application
ucbschedule.py is a Flask application that provides an API and views
for the statistics of the data set. The API is provided using
Flask-Restless.
Statistics
Currently, the following information is extracted:
- Which classes have the most enrolled or waitlisted students as a percentage of their seat limit
- Which classes have the highest seat limit
- Which rooms are used the most