LangaraCourseInfo 1.0.4

Langara Course Information Aggregator

LangaraCourseInfo

This project collects course and transfer information from Langara College, Vancouver, into an SQLite database.

Once built, the database weighs around 15 MB for all data (~250 MB with source HTML/PDFs), which should be lightweight enough for most uses.

The transfer agreement scraper currently takes an excruciating amount of time - approximately an hour - this will be improved with multithreading in the future.

Collected Data

• Course Information: course description & other attributes
• Course Offerings: dating from 1999 - present.
• Transfer Information: only active transfer agreements are collected.

Table Definitions

• TransferInformation(subject, course_code, source, destination, credit, effective_start, effective_end)

• CourseInfo(subject, course_code, credits, title, description, lecture_hours, seminar_hours, lab_hours, AR, SC, HUM, LSC, SCI, SOC, UT)

• Sections(year, term, seats, waitlist, subject, course_code, crn, credits, additional_fees, repeat_limit)

• Schedules(year, term, crn, type, days,, time, start_date, end_date, room, instructor)

• SemesterHTML(year, term, sectionHTML, catalogueHTML, attributeHTML)

• TransferPDF(subject, pdf)

Stack

• SQLite
• Selenium
• Beautifulsoup