Web Scraper for UWaterloo Course Information

This Python library scraps all UWaterloo course information from its website: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocour/CIR/SA/under.html

This library only supports Python3.6+

Please do not spam their website.

Getting Started

Install Python 3.6+

Prerequisites

In your terminal/shell, type:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Then install bs4, requests

python -m pip install requests bs4

Installing

Type the following to terminal/shell to install

pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ uwaterlooCourseInfoScraper

If installation successful, you will see something like this:

Successfully installed uwaterlooCourseInfoScraper-1.0.8

A Simple Example

import uwaterlooCourseInfoScraper as uwcis

print(uwcis.getCourseEnrollInfo(1201, "CS", 135))
# OUTPUT: 
# Request Successful
# [{'Class': XXXX, 'CompSec': 'LEC 001', 'EnrlCap': 90, 'EnrlTot': 71, 'Instructor': 'XXXX'}, {'Class': XXXX, 'CompSec': 
# 'LEC 002', 'EnrlCap': 90, 'EnrlTot': 65, 'Instructor': 'XXXX'}, {'Class': 6002, 'CompSec': 'TST 201', 'EnrlCap': 180, 
# 'EnrlTot': 136, 'Instructor': 'XXXX'}]

Built With

• requests - Python3 HTTP requests package
• csv - Python3 Library to interact with .csv files
• Beautiful Soup 4 - Python3 HTML Parser

Authors

• arctdav - Initial work - UW-course-info-scraping

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details