Unofficial University of Alberta API

This is just a fun personal project I made to test FastAPI. It's not affiliated with the University of Alberta.

Inspired by UWaterloo's API (https://openapi.data.uwaterloo.ca/api-docs/index.html), I made a somewhat similar API for U of Alberta. I couldn't get as many endpoints as UWaterloo's because I don't have access to UAlberta's databases so I've scraped what was available online.

I've tried to balance the over-fetching and under-fetching of data by allowing user to query based on different variables in their endpoints. To keep it simple, I have used a JSON file to store the scraped data. Getting what you need from the scraped data should be as simple as calling keys from a dictionary.

There were over 10k pages to scrap so if you're going to run scraper.py it's going to take a while if DELAY_TIME is not changed. I suggest not to change it to avoid hitting U of A's servers too much.

Data

• 20 Faculties
• 315 Subjects
• 10114 Courses

Screenshots

Installation

Install locally

  git clone https://github.com/abenezerBelachew/unofficial-ualberta-api.git
  cd unofficial-ualberta-api
  pipenv install -r requirements.txt
  pipenv shell

  python3 scraper.py # Not necessary if you want to use the already scraped data in the data folder.
  uvicorn main:app --reload or python main.py

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000 [or whichever port Uvicorn says it is running on].

API Reference

Faculties

Get Faculties

  GET /faculties

Parameter	Type	Description
No Parameters	-	Returns all faculties with necessary data

Get specific faculty

  GET /faculties/{faculty_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
faculty_code	string	The Faculty Code (E.g. RM for Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine)

Subjects

Get Subjects

  GET /subjects

Parameter	Type	Description
No Parameters	-	Returns all subjects with necessary data

Get specific faculty

  GET /subjects/{subject_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
subject_code	string	The Subject Code (E.g. BIOEN for Bioresource Engineering)

Courses

Get Courses

  GET /courses

Parameter	Type	Description
No Parameters	-	Returns all courses with necessary data

Get specific faculty

  GET /courses/{course_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. CHEM102 for Introductory University Chemistry II)

Class Schedules

Get all class schedules

  GET /class_schedules

Parameter	Type	Description
No Parameters	-	Returns all class schedules with necessary data

Get specific class schedule for a course

  GET /class_schedules/{course_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. MATH322 for Graph Theory)

Get specific class schedule for a course in a specific term

  GET /class_schedules/{course_code}/{term_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. MATH322 for Graph Theory)
term_code	string	The Term Code (E.g. Fall2021 for Fall 2021)

Get lecture class schedule for a course in a specific term

  GET /class_schedules/lectures/{course_code}/{term_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
-	-	Gets the lecture section of a specific course in a specific term
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. MATH322 for Graph Theory)
term_code	string	The Term Code (E.g. Fall2021 for Fall 2021)

Get lab class schedule for a course in a specific term

  GET /class_schedules/labs/{course_code}/{term_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
-	-	Gets the lab section of a specific course in a specific term
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. CMPUT404 for Web Applications and Architecture)
term_code	string	The Term Code (E.g. Fall2021 for Fall 2021)

Get seminar class schedule for a course in a specific term

  GET /class_schedules/seminars/{course_code}/{term_code}

Parameter	Type	Description
-	-	Gets the seminar section of a specific course in a specific term
course_code	string	The Course Code (E.g. CMPUT204 for Algorithms I)
term_code	string	The Term Code (E.g. Fall2021 for Fall 2021)

License

MIT