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.