Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pygora-phchcc
Version: 0.0.3
Summary: A web crawler library that fetches and parses data from Boston College Agora Portal
Home-page: https://github.com/haochenpan/pygora
Author: Haochen Pan
Author-email: phchcc@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown

# pygora
#### A web crawler library that fetches and parses data from [BC Agora Portal](https://services.bc.edu/commoncore/myservices.do).

## To Install (needs Python 3):

## To Run:
##### example: download and store all subject links with corresponding school code & subject code (the username and password will not be cached locally)
```python
from pygora import *

session, gen_time = get_session("myAgoraUsername", "myAgoraPassword", check_valid=True)
subjects = download_subjects(session, simple=True)
# subjects = download_subjects(session) # get you the full information


with open("subjects.txt", "w") as f:
    for line in subjects:
        print(line)
        f.write(line + "\n")
```

##### cache the username and password so that you don't have to write them explicitly in a script
```python
from pygora import *

# to set credential, run it once so that username & password are stored locally
set_credential("myAgoraUsername", "myAgoraPassword")

# to clear out credential
set_credential("", "")

```

##### example of `parse_subject_page`: print out all biology courses (school and subject codes can be found in `subject.txt`), provided that if you have run `set_credential`
```python
from pygora import *

session, gen_time = get_session(*get_credential(), check_valid=True)
# if you are confident that your username & password are correct, do
# session, gen_time = get_session(*get_credential())

url = SUBJECT_URL.format('2MCAS', '2BIOL')  # get you a url string
resp = session.get(url)  # use your session to HTTP get the url
courses = parse_subject_page(resp)  # parse the subject page
for course in courses:
    print(course)

```


##### example of `parse_course_page`: print all information on a course page (the course code can be found in the output of `parse_subject_page`)
```python
from pygora import *

session, gen_time = get_session(*get_credential())
url = COURSE_URL.format('ACCT102101')

# a dummy dict in this example, could be your data fetched from database
info_dict = dict()
resp = session.get(url)
parse_course_page(resp, info_dict)  # update the dict
for key, value in info_dict.items():
    print(key, value)

```

## Used by
##### the backend of [EagleVision](http://www.eaglevisionapp.com/)
##### the backend of [New PEPS (planning)]()

## Join Dev Team / Contact Us:
##### open an issue on Github to announce the feature/bug that you want to work on
##### or through email: (Haochen) phchcc_at_gmail_dot_com 
##### or search our names in BC directory

## Special Thanks


