The University of Birmingham has a lovely service for accessing timetables that is completely incompatible with any reasonable system. This is a simple command line tool to extract the data from my.bham and generate something compatible with a reasonable system.
This project is inspired (and takes a bit of code from) Tom Moses's work on OnlineBhamTimetableConverter. It's a great project, however, I'm generally unhappy about having to give my password off to third-party services, and I just need a simple command line tool.
bhamcal requires at least python 3.7, as it uses some slightly more modern features.
Additionally, chromedriver is required for selenium to scrape the calendar data. To install it, see here (for windows-specific instructions, see below).
Finally, to actually install bhamcal, clone the repository, and install it using pip:
$ git clone https://github.com/jedevc/bhamcal.git
$ cd bhamcal
$ pip3 install -e .
If you don't want to install it system-wide, you can run it as a module, after installing the dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 -m bhamcal
- Download
chromedriver.exefrom here. - Put it inside
C:\Windows.
To generate a calendar in iCal format:
$ bhamcal <username> -o calendar.ics
For other options, see the help:
$ bhamcal --help
To develop, first set up the pipenv:
$ pipenv shell
Then, you can run the tool using:
$ python -m bhamcal
If you add new dependencies, make sure that they are reflected in both
requirements.txt and setup.py.
Like OnlineBhamTimetableConverter, this project is licensed under the GPLv3. Enjoy! 🎉