README.md

scraping-pucrs

Scraping PUCRS courses

What is

A script application to get the course and discipline information from the PUCRS website.

Why

Currently PUCRS does not offer an efficient API to access the data of the disciplines and courses.
So this application aims to scrape data from the university website and make available in JSON files to facilitate the development of any application for the academic community.

How do

Running

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve at localhost:3000
npm start

Routes

• localhost:3000/:school/:course

  http://localhost:3000/politecnica/engenharia-de-software

  return an array of objects with infos about course schedule

  [{
    "school": "politecnica",
    "course": "engenharia-de-software",
    "semester": "1",
    "code": "4115H-04",
    "discipline": "Cálculo A",
    "hours": "60"
    }, ...
  ]
  

• localhost:3000/all

  http://localhost:3000/all
  Create 60 json files with infos about all courses in /dist folder
  Acces the files here

Easy way

Use git submodules.

Examples:
https://blog.github.com/2016-02-01-working-with-submodules/
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule