Description:

uclacli 0.0.10

UCLA CLI



UCLA CLI is a command-line tool for scraping data from UCLA's website, such as:

Course schedule information (list classes by department/requirement, class days/times)
Course enrollment info (spots left, waitlists, etc.)
and more! (whatever else I decide to add)


Why would you ever want this?

Scriptability - Web browsers are notoriously unscriptable, forcing you to go through tedious routines
every day, click after click. With a command-line tool, it's easy to write scripts that automate boring tasks
or empower you.

For example, you could script up an enrollment notifier (i.e. a free Coursicle replacement)
using UCLA CLI in just a few lines!


Hacker Vibes - Be honest, you've been seeking a bit more terminal in your life.

Installation
pip install ucla-cli

Getting Started
ucla classes 23F --subject MATH

Development
Design Goals

Front-end - This project just aims to be a front-end for UCLA's website, meaning faithfully retrieving the
user-facing data from the website in a similar manner/structure as the website provides it.
Unix tool - This project aims to be a "good" CLI by following the conventions/philosophy of (modern) Unix
command-line tools (in regards to option parsing, interactability, output format, etc.)

Related projects

Nathan Smith (creator of hotseat.io) has a
post
that describes scraping UCLA's course schedule. He uses the same scraping strategy but implemented in Go
(with support for multiprocessing!).

License
ucla-cli is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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