Nimbus scraping

A collection of utilities for scraping data for Cal Poly's Nimbus voice assistant.

Installation

Install pipenv with pip and run

pipenv install

in the project folder.

Usage

import sustainer

# returns a JSON string of CSV data from all modules
json = sustainer.scrape_all()

# For any module "scraping_module",
from scraping_module import ScrapingModule

s = ScrapingModule()

# returns a CSV string of scraped data
csv = s.scrape()

Supported Data

schedules_scraper.py

• Professor contact information (office, phone, email)
• Class section times (start / end)
• Which professor is teaching which class
• Class locations
• Class types (lab / lec)

club_scraper.py

• Contact information (phone, email, box, contact person)
• Advisor info (name, phone, email)
• Affiliations and types
• Descriptions

course_scraper.py

• Course requirements (coreq, prereq, concurrent, and recommended)
• Units
• Department
• Terms typically offered

calendar_scraper.py

• Academic calendar events and dates

faculty_scraper.py

• Faculty contact information (office, phone, email)
• Professor research interests

Architecture

TODO

• Add reporting when website format changes are detected
• Add GE areas to course_scraper
• Create degree program scraper (catalog.calpoly.edu/programsaz/)
• Integrate more calendars into calendar_scraper
• Add logging

Contributing

Feel free to make pull requests or report issues. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss. Also, check out onboarding.txt (coming soon)

License

MIT