uc-date-scraper

UofC Date Scraper

This is just a simple scraper for this UofC schedule site, which I use to populate calendars with my UofC Schedule to Google Calendar app.

Format

This scraper can be simply run to produce a .json file with the format:

[
	{
		"name": "Spring",
		"year": "2016",
		"start": 0,
		"end": 1,
		"events": [
			{
				"name": "Start of Classes",
				"description": "Academic Dates",
				"month": "07",
				"day": "05"
			},
			{
				"name": "End of Classes",
				"description": "Academic Dates",
				"month": "12",
				"day": "08"
			}
			{
				"name": "Victoria Day",
				"description": "Recognized Holidays (university closed)",
				"month": "05",
				"day": "23"
			},
			...
		],
		"holidays": [
			2, ...
		]
	},
	...
]

Usage

Or, you can install and require this package with npm.

npm install --save uc-date-scraper

Then in your code:

var scraper = require('uc-date-scraper');
scraper(null, function(semesters) {
	// do stuff with semesters
});

Run

If you have nodejs/npm installed, download the project and cd into it. Then run the following commands:

npm install
npm start

A semesters.json file should be generated in the project directory.