dwillis / testudo

Collect public information about the classes at the University of Maryland

testudo

testudo.py collects class information from the publicly available University of Maryland Schedule of Classes. It includes information such as the title of the class, the size of the class, enrollment, the time and location of the class, and the name of the instructor. This repository only makes the code for assembling the data available. Please email [e-mail] with any questions.

git clone https://github.com/dwillis/testudo.git
cd testudo
pipenv install
./testudo.py

After it finishes you should find a populated directory structure like this:

data/{term}/{dept}/{class}.json

For convenience the included json2csv.py program will read in all the JSON files and write out one long CSV file, which is saved in data/courses.csv. Each course JSON file will look something like this:

{
  "id": "ANTH222",
  "title": "Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology",
  "credits": "4",
  "description": "Credit only granted for: ANTH220 or ANTH222.",
  "grading-method": [
    "Reg",
    "P-F",
    "Aud"
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "0101",
      "instructor": "Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman",
      "seats": "20,",
      "open-seats": "0,",
      "waitlist": "0",
      "days": "TuTh",
      "start": "9:30am",
      "end": "10:45am",
      "building": "ATL",
      "room": "2324"
    },
    {
      "id": "0102",
      "instructor": "Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman",
      "seats": "20,",
      "open-seats": "0,",
      "waitlist": "0",
      "days": "TuTh",
      "start": "9:30am",
      "end": "10:45am",
      "building": "ATL",
      "room": "2324"
    }
  ],
  "term": "201801",
  "department": "Anthropology"
}

Caveats

The included data snapshot does not include the Spring term for 2019 because the crawling was not run in time.

Tests

There are a few tests, but there should be more.

pytest test_testudo.py