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#! /usr/bin/env python2
from mapping import indexCourse
from sys import argv
from itertools import chain, islice
from re import search, sub
from functools import total_ordering
from books import textbookInfo
import datetime as dt
import lxml.html as lxh
import requests
import logging
import sys
import copy
# threading imports
import Queue as q
import threading as thd
# Codes for semesters
# The first three digits of the year, followed by the month the semester starts
fall = "2179"
spring_summer = "2175"
winter = "2181"
baseurl = "https://applicants.mcmaster.ca/psp/prepprd/EMPLOYEE/PSFT_LS/c/COMMUNITY_ACCESS.CLASS_SEARCH.GBL"
searchurl = "https://csprd.mcmaster.ca/psc/prcsprd/EMPLOYEE/PSFT_LS/c/COMMUNITY_ACCESS.CLASS_SEARCH.GBL"
custom_headers = {
"User-Agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0",
"Content-Type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
}
# format strings to build GET requests, taken from an actual browser session
courseCodes1 = "ICAJAX=1&ICNAVTYPEDROPDOWN=1&ICType=Panel&ICElementNum=0&ICStateNum={0}&ICAction=CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_SSR_PB_SUBJ_SRCH%240&ICXPos=0&ICYPos=0&ResponsetoDiffFrame=-1&TargetFrameName=None&FacetPath=None&ICFocus=&ICSaveWarningFilter=0&ICChanged=-1&ICResubmit=0&ICSID=5tq9x%2Fjt42mf62Sh5z%2BrjxT0gT15kiIyQ2cecCSmRB4%3D&ICActionPrompt=false&ICFind=&ICAddCount=&ICAPPCLSDATA=&CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_STRM$45$={1}"
courseCodes2 = "ICAJAX=1&ICNAVTYPEDROPDOWN=1&ICType=Panel&ICElementNum=0&ICStateNum={0}&ICAction=SSR_CLSRCH_WRK2_SSR_ALPHANUM_{1}&ICXPos=0&ICYPos=0&ResponsetoDiffFrame=-1&TargetFrameName=None&FacetPath=None&ICFocus=&ICSaveWarningFilter=0&ICChanged=-1&ICResubmit=0&ICSID=vIUgl6ZXw045S07EPbQw4RDzv7NmKCDdJFdT4CTRQNM%3D&ICActionPrompt=false&ICFind=&ICAddCount=&ICAPPCLSDATA=&CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_STRM$45$={2}"
payload2 = "ICAJAX=1&ICNAVTYPEDROPDOWN=1&ICType=Panel&ICElementNum=0&ICStateNum={0}&ICAction=%23ICSave&ICXPos=0&ICYPos=0&ResponsetoDiffFrame=-1&TargetFrameName=None&FacetPath=None&ICFocus=&ICSaveWarningFilter=0&ICChanged=-1&ICResubmit=0&ICSID=aWx3w6lJ6d2wZui6hwRVSEnzsPgCA3afYJEFBLLkxe4%3D&ICActionPrompt=false&ICFind=&ICAddCount=&ICAPPCLSDATA=&CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_STRM$45$={1}"
payload = "ICAJAX=1&ICNAVTYPEDROPDOWN=1&ICType=Panel&ICElementNum=0&ICStateNum={0}&ICAction=CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_SSR_PB_CLASS_SRCH&ICXPos=0&ICYPos=0&ResponsetoDiffFrame=-1&TargetFrameName=None&FacetPath=None&ICFocus=&ICSaveWarningFilter=0&ICChanged=-1&ICResubmit=0&ICSID=aWx3w6lJ6d2wZui6hwRVSEnzsPgCA3afYJEFBLLkxe4%3D&ICActionPrompt=false&ICFind=&ICAddCount=&ICAPPCLSDATA=&SSR_CLSRCH_WRK_SUBJECT$75$$0={1}&CLASS_SRCH_WRK2_STRM$45$={2}"
days = {
"Mo" : 0,
"Tu" : 1,
"We" : 2,
"Th" : 3,
"Fr" : 4,
"Sa" : 5,
"Su" : 6
}
def parse_semester(sem):
"""
Take a semester and try to parse it into the numeral format
"""
try:
splitted = sem.split("/")
year = splitted[0]
month = splitted[1]
return "%s%s%s" % (year[0], year[2:4], month[1])
except IndexError:
return sem
def timeparse(time):
"""
Parse the time into numbers
"""
if len(time) == 7:
hour = int(time[0:2])
minutes = int(time[3:5])
half = time[5:7]
else:
hour = int(time[0])
minutes = int(time[2:4])
half = time[4:6]
if half == "PM":
if hour < 12:
hour = hour + 12
return (str(hour), str(minutes), half)
class Class(object):
def __init__(self, dept, title, sections):
self.title = title.encode("UTF-8")
self.sections = sections
self.dept = dept
def __repr__(self):
return repr((self.title, self.sections))
def __iter__(self):
return iter((self.title, sec) for sec in self.sections)
@property
def code(self):
"""
Heuristic for checking if a course has a code associated with it
Checks if it has more than two words and if they start with uppercase letters
"""
splitted = self.title.strip().split(" ")
if ((len(splitted) >= 2) and
(splitted[0].upper() == splitted[0]) and
(splitted[1].upper() == splitted[1])):
return splitted
return False
@property
def books(self):
"""
Get textbooks for the course
"""
if self.dept and self.code:
return textbookInfo(self.dept, self.code, withPrices=True)
return False
@total_ordering
class Section(dict):
"""
This represents a section of a course
"""
def __init__(self, time, loc, prof, sem):
self.time = time
# Location of the course (building)
self.loc = loc
self.prof = prof
self._sem = sem
self._date = False
self._day = False
@property
def sem(self):
"""
Return the semester the course runs
"""
parsed = parse_semester(self._sem)
if parsed == fall:
return "Fall"
elif parsed == winter:
return "Winter"
else:
return "Spring/Summer"
@property
def date(self):
"""
Return the day(s) of the week the section runs and the start and end times
"""
if self.time != "TBA":
day, start, _, end = self.time.split()
# Assuming that each day is two characters, create a list of them
day = [day[n:n+2] for n in range(0, len(day)-1, 2)]
self._date = (day, timeparse(start), timeparse(end))
return self._date
return self.time
@property
def day(self):
"""
Return just the day(s) the section runs
"""
# This is set when the section is duplicated (then it would have a single day)
if self._day:
return self._day
# Otherwise return the list of days from the date property
if self.date != "TBA":
return self.date[0]
return "TBA"
@property
def start(self):
"""
Return the starting time of this section
"""
if self.date != "TBA":
return self.date[1][0] + self.date[1][1]
return "TBA"
def __repr__(self):
return ("""
Time = %s, Location = %s, Instructor = %s, Semester Running = %s
""" % (self.date, self.loc, self.prof, self.sem))
def __gt__(self, x):
if isinstance(self.day, list):
raise NotImplementedError
if (self.date == "TBA" or
x.date == "TBA"):
return False
return ((days[self.day] > days[x.day]) or
((self.day == x.day) and
(self.start > x.start)))
def __eq__(self, x):
return (x.date == self.date and
x.prof == self.prof and
x.loc == self.loc and
x.sem == self.sem)
def getStateNum(html):
"""
Get the state num from Mosaic
This is unique to each requester
"""
parsed = lxh.fromstring(html)
return parsed.xpath(".//input[@name=\"ICStateNum\"]")[0].value
def parseSection(section):
cols = section.xpath(".//td")
assert len(cols) == 4
time, loc, prof, sem = [col.text_content().encode("UTF-8").strip() for col in cols]
classinfo = Section(time, loc, prof, sem)
return classinfo
def getSectionInfo(table):
"""
Extract section information from the parsed course table
"""
trs = table.xpath(".//tr")
for tr in trs:
if tr.xpath("@id") and search(r"SSR_CLSRCH", tr.xpath("@id")[0]):
yield parseSection(tr)
def parseColumns(subject, html):
"""
Extract class columns
"""
parsed = lxh.fromstring(html)
classInfo = (list(getSectionInfo(table)) for table in
islice((table for table in parsed.xpath(".//table")
if table.xpath("@id") and
search(r"ICField[0-9]+\$scroll", table.xpath("@id")[0])), 1, sys.maxsize))
classNames = ((subject, span.text_content().strip()) for span in parsed.xpath(".//span")
if span.xpath("@id") and
search(r"DERIVED_CLSRCH_DESCR", span.xpath("@id")[0]))
return list(zip(classNames, classInfo))
def getCodes(html):
"""
Get department course codes
"""
parsed = lxh.fromstring(html)
return (code.text_content().encode("UTF-8") for code in
parsed.xpath("//span")
if code.xpath("@id") and
search(r"SSR_CLSRCH_SUBJ_SUBJECT\$[0-9]+", code.xpath("@id")[0]))
class MosReq(object):
def __init__(self, semester):
self.semester = semester
s = requests.Session()
resp = s.get(baseurl, allow_redirects=True, headers=custom_headers).content
# Let the server set some cookies before doing the searching
cookies = {}
for key, val in s.cookies.items():
cookies[key] = val
self.cookies = cookies
self.statenum = False
self.codes_ = []
def getlist(self, subject):
sys.stderr.write("Getting %s\n" % subject.decode("UTF-8"))
first_req = requests.get(searchurl, cookies=self.cookies)
# for some reason Mosaic wants us to request it twice, ??????????????????
self.statenum = getStateNum(first_req.content)
first_req = requests.post(searchurl,
data=payload.format(self.statenum, subject, self.semester),
cookies=self.cookies,
allow_redirects=False,
headers=custom_headers)
# we make a first request to get the ICStateNum in case it thinks there are too many results
try:
self.statenum = getStateNum(first_req.content)
except IndexError:
pass
if b"Your search will return over" in first_req:
return requests.post(searchurl,
data=payload2.format(self.statenum, self.semester),
cookies=self.cookies,
allow_redirects=False,
headers=custom_headers).content
else:
return first_req.content
def classes(self, subject):
return list(parseColumns(subject, self.getlist(subject)))
def getCodes(self, letter):
sys.stderr.write("Getting letter " + letter + "\n")
first_req = requests.get(searchurl, cookies=self.cookies).content
self.statenum = getStateNum(first_req)
self.statenum = getStateNum(requests.post(searchurl,
data=courseCodes1.format(self.statenum, self.semester),
cookies=self.cookies,
headers=custom_headers).content)
return getCodes(requests.post(searchurl,
data=courseCodes2.format(self.statenum, letter, self.semester),
cookies=self.cookies,
allow_redirects=False,
headers=custom_headers).content)
@property
def codes(self):
"""
Gets a list of all course codes available
"""
if not self.codes_:
self.codes_ = list(
chain.from_iterable(
self.getCodes(chr(l)) for l in range(65, 91)))
return self.codes_
def request(codes, lists, semester):
requester = MosReq(semester)
while not codes.empty():
code = codes.get()
lists.put(requester.classes(code))
codes.task_done()
class CourseInfo(object):
def __init__(self, threadcount, semester):
self._codes = False
self.threadcount = threadcount
self.semester = semester
@property
def codes(self):
if not self._codes:
req = MosReq(self.semester)
self._codes = req.codes
return self._codes
def classes(self):
"""
Returns a generator of all courses and textbooks
"""
# Queue of letters to process
course_codes = q.Queue()
# Initialize the queue with all codes
for code in self.codes:
course_codes.put(code)
lists = q.Queue()
threads = []
thread = None
# Spawn threads that pull from the queue of course codes
for i in range(self.threadcount):
thread = thd.Thread(group=None, target=request, args=(course_codes, lists, self.semester))
threads.append(thread)
thread.start()
# Block until all queue tasks are done
course_codes.join()
# Block until all threads have exited
for t in threads:
t.join()
sections = []
# Empty the queue of sections and put it into the list
while not lists.empty():
sections.append(lists.get())
# This creates a section for each day, so that each section has only one day
for cl in chain.from_iterable(sections):
new_sections = []
for sec in cl[1]:
# sec.day is a list of days
# if there is more than one day, we want to split this up into multiple sections
if len(sec.day) > 1:
for day in sec.day:
new_sections.append(copy.deepcopy(sec))
new_sections[-1]._day = day
else:
sec._day = sec.day[0]
new_sections.append(sec)
# cl[0][0] is the subject code/department scraped from the page
# cl[0][1] is the subject name scraped from the page
# regex substitution is to get rid of erroneous characters (due to an encoding problem with the page)
yield Class(cl[0][0], sub("\xa0+", "", cl[0][1]), sorted(new_sections))
def getCourses(semester, threadcount=10):
"""
Gets all the courses for a given semester
"""
return CourseInfo(threadcount, semester).classes()
def allCourses():
"""
Gets all the courses for all three semesters
"""
courses = map(getCourses, [spring_summer, fall, winter])
return chain.from_iterable(courses)
if __name__ == "__main__":
for course in allCourses():
print course
#indexCourse(course)