2022 Update

This project has been archived in favour of circles degree planner and notangles timetabler

Pathways - the UNSW course handbook done right

Motivation

Pathways is a web app that lets you view details about UNSW courses, including timetables, prerequisites and course summaries, in a friendlier manner than the course handbook and timetable sites.

Getting Started

It currently has the following components:

scraper.py - A python script that scrapes the HTML from every course page on the legacy 2018 handbook
binder.py - A python script that parses the downloaded HTML from the scraper and converts it all into a SQLite3 database
server.py - The Python Flask Web App that interfaces with the SQLite3 database
static/index.html, static/css/main.css, static/js/main.js, all the front end stuff, making heavy use of Bootstrap and jquery

Prerequisites

Python3 + pip3

Running locally

Run scraper.py then binder.py then server.py
- Note that scraper.py downloads ~130MB of data, which is then compress into a 6MB SQLite3 DB