arcorion / uwtools

Python API for University of Washington (UW) Course Catalog and Time Schedule Parsing/Data Extraction and Scraping.

uwtools

The uwtools library is inspired by the Pandas library, incorporating similar styles in parameter declaration and ease of use.
Some features of the library include:

• Easily get quarter date ranges and current/upcoming quarters at UW.
• Easy parsing of the current Time Schedules and Course Catalogs for every UW Campus.
• Times for course sections in Time Schedules converted to datetime objects.
• Complete list of buildings with abbreviations, full names and coordinates.
• Data stored and returned in pandas DataFrames and Python dictionaries for easy searching/manipulation.
• Time Schedule Data is available for courses beginning WIN 2003.

Installation

pip install uwtools

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Documentation

Method	Description
course_catalogs	Parse the UW Course Catalogs
departments	Get information about UW Departments
academic_year	Find the academic school year
time_schedules	Parse the UW Time Schedules from Winter 2003 - Present for UW Campuses
buildings	Get a list of buildings at each UW Campus with full names included
geocode	Find coordinates for buildings at each UW Campus

Dependencies

• Requests
• BeautifulSoup
• Pandas
• tqdm