BuscaCursos UC Scraper

This project uses mrpatiwi/buscacursos-uc and requires Node 5.3.x or newer.

Use by your own responsibility, because this creates heavy load on http://buscacursos.uc.cl

How does it works

When you query http://buscacursos.uc.cl you can have at most 50 results without be able to get the next results (no pagination).

This works by querying the initials (MAT, LET, etc) and counting the results, then if the results are more than 50, this perform another ten (recursive) queries like: MAT0, MAT1, ..., MAT9, otherwise just return the results.

In shorter words, this performs a kind of Depth First Search (DFS).

Install

This shall not be published to npm.

To install as a dependency, edit the package.json and add:

"dependencies": {
    "buscacursos-uc-scraper": "git+https://[email protected]/mrpatiwi/buscacursos-uc-scraper"
}

Usage

The function deepSearch receives an array of course initials (strings of length 3).

• Example: MAT, IIC, DNO, ...

scraper.deepSearch(['IIC', 'MAT'], { year: 2016, period: 1 }).then(courses => {
  console.log('Count:', courses.length);
  fs.writeFile('./some.json', JSON.stringify(courses, null, 4), function(err) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);

    console.log('success!');
  });
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

All the (current) available identifiers are importable with:

const scraper = require('buscacursos-uc-scraper');
const initials = scraper.initials;

Usage:

'use strict';

const fs = require('fs');
const scraper = require('buscacursos-uc-scraper');

// Recommended:
// Use known initials to speed the process.
const initials = scraper.initials;

scraper.deepSearch(initials, { year: 2016, period: 1 }).then(courses => {
  console.log('Count:', courses.length);
  fs.writeFile('./all.json', JSON.stringify(courses, null, 4), function(err) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);

    console.log('success!');
  });
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

// To perform a full search use (rediscover initials):
//
// This takes a lot of time to complete.
// Also, creates heavy load on the server, use with caution.
// Big chances of failing:
//
// scraper.all({ year: 2016, period: 1 }).then(courses => { ...