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Since it wasn't mentioned below, everyone should know about the MIT Course Picker: <a href="http://picker.mit.edu/">http://picker.mit.edu/</a>. Students made it for a similar reason to Bill's: the online catalog stinks, so they parsed the catalog Db to 1) create
a faceted interface built around student needs, such as allowing things to be sorted by Institute requirements and 2) add picked classes to a calendar, so they can actually see what their schedule would look like.
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<div>I don't <i>think</i> it would work for Bill's needs, or at least not without the same work Nick did. It does, however, easily export to Google Calendar.</div>
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<div>On Jun 9, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Nick Holden wrote:</div>
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<div>I took a stab at solving Bill’s issue below. If anyone else is looking for an easy way to gather information from the MIT Course Catalog for your websites, I built <a href="http://mitcourses.herokuapp.com/">this app that will generate an HTML table with
information about classes for a given course and term</a>.</div>
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<div>Let me know if you encounter any issues or if you’d find it useful to have this data in another format (RSS?).</div>
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MIT School of Engineering<br>
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On May 27, 2015, at 2:21 PM, William T. G. Litant <<a href="mailto:wlitant@mit.edu">wlitant@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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Fighting my biannual battle posting our course schedule and have a question for you folks.<br>
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Currently, I receive the schedule from our department undergrad coordinator in the form of a .docx table. Yes, far from ideal. I then save as html, clean up the html, and embed in our site in the Drupal code for the page. <a href="http://aeroastro.mit.edu/academics/subject-information/current-schedule">http://aeroastro.mit.edu/academics/subject-information/current-schedule</a> It
makes for an ugly posting, the Word>html conversion is wonky, and it takes me too much time, but I’m not going to retype the whole thing. Ideally, I’d love to have a Drupal module that scrapes the same data (course, units, level, title, etc but NOT course description)
from the Course Catalogue and creates/updates itself. Do any of you have anything like this or at least a more effective way for me to post this and update with minimal time spent? Thanks for any thoughts.<br>
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William Litant<br>
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