tau-tools 1.1.7

Tools for accessing and using Tel Aviv University websites

🎓 TAU Tools

A python library to retrieve information about the various plans and courses at Tel Aviv University, and interact with the various servers.

🛠️ Installation  ·  💡 Features  ·  🚗 Roadmap

Installation

You can get the latest version of TAU Tools by running pip install tau-tools!

Features

Moodle API

Here's an example of using the TAU Tools moodle package:

from tau_tools.moodle import Moodle

m = Moodle("username", "123456789", "password", "session.json")
courses = m.get_courses()
print(courses)
print(m.get_recordings(courses[0]))

Full documentation will be available soon!

IMS API

Here's an example of using the TAU Tools ims package:

from tau_tools.ims import IMS

ims = IMS("username", "123456789", "password")
grades = ims.get_all_grades([2023, 2024])
print(grades)

Scrapers

You can get mostly up to date data from the following URLs:

• https://arazim-project.com/courses/courses-2025a.json
• https://arazim-project.com/courses/courses-2025b.json
• https://arazim-project.com/courses/plans.json

You can also get rolled-up information about all of the courses in https://arazim-project.com/courses/courses.json, using the TAU Tools collect script.

Get course details

You can get all details about a specific year's courses by running python3 -m tau_tools.courses or python3 -m tau_tools.courses 2025!

Example:

{
    "03005031": {
        "name": "מבוא לביולוגיה לכימאים",
        "faculty": "מדעים מדויקים/פקולטה למדעים מדויקים",
        "exams": [
            {
                "moed": "א",
                "date": "08/02/2024",
                "hour": "",
                "type": "בחינה סופית"
            },
            ...
        ],
        "groups": [
            {
                "group": "01",
                "lecturer": "ד\"ר מאיו ליאור",
                "lessons": [
                    {
                        "day": "ה",
                        "time": "09:00-10:00",
                        "building": "קפלון",
                        "room": "118",
                        "type": "שיעור"
                    },
                    ...
                ]
            },
            ...
        ]
    },
    ...
}

Get the available plans

You can get all details about the current (and past) study plans in Tel Aviv University by running python3 -m tau_tools.plans or python3 -m tau_tools.plans 2025!

Example:

{
    "הפקולטה למדעי החברה ע\"ש גרשון גורדון": {
        "תוכנית לתואר שני בתקשורת במסלול מחקרי": {
            "קורסי תואר שני - קורסי ליבה": ["10854101", "10854102"],
            "קורסי תואר שני - קורסי מתודולוגיה": ["10854203", "10464101"],
            ...
        },
        ...
    },
    ...
}

Roadmap

• Get courses
• Get plans
• Create a nicer interface to the IMS
• Create a nicer interface to the Moodle
• Make the scripts accept command-line parameters
• Add the package to PyPI for a simpler installation
• Show progress bars during scraping

Acknowledgements

This repository contains modified versions of the following tools:

• CourseScrape
• CLIMS