buscraper

node.js module for collecting BU class related information Given a semester code (will be explained in the usage section) and the class code, this module will collect everything from professor names, sections, times and open seats.

Installation

This is module is published on npm so installation is very simple. Just open up a terminal that has npm CLI installed and execute the following command in the project directory.

npm install buscraper

or if you have a package.json and you want to add the dependency right to the json file, execute the following.

npm install buscraper --save

Usage

Once you have installed the package through npm, you can add the following lines in order to start fetching course informations.

Semester code

Semester code is a string input that will be parsed by the package in order to determine what year and semester it will look for. It should follow the following syntax: "{ year }{ semester }"

Year is 4 digit integers that represent an ending year (e.g. "2017", "2018", "2019", etc...) of class year.

• Academic year 2017 to 2018 => "2018"
• Academic year 2019 to 2020 => "2020"

Semester is a 1 digit integer that represents some semester:

• Summer 1 => "1"
• Summer 2 => "2"
• Fall => "3"
• Spring => "4"

Therefore, if you were looking for a information for a class in Fall semester of academic year 2017 to 2018, then you'd input:

"20183"

Class Code

Class code is the second input to the package. Class code has the syntax of: "{ College }{ Department }{ Class Number }"

College is 3 characters long string:

• "CAS"
• "CFA"
• "CGS"
• "COM"
• etc...

Department is 2 characters long string:

• Computer Science => "CS"
• Math => "MA"
• Physics => "PY"
• etc...

Class Number is 3 characters long string that consists of intergers:

• "111"
• "330"
• etc...

var buscraper = require('buscraper');

var classInfo = Object();
var semesterCode = "20184"; // Spring semester for academic year 2017 to 2018

var classCode = "CASCS111";

buscraper.getClass(semesterCode, classCode, function(err, result) {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
    else {
        classInfo = result;
    }
});