Century Library Documentation

What is Century?

Let’s say you’d like to write a simple script to work with a certain page on the University of Florida website. What may seem like a simple task could very well prove quite complicated: you’ll have to handle authentication, cookies, redirects, and often times broken html. When it comes down to it, UF’s webpages don’t play well with scripting.

Century handles automation of the UF site, and does it for you with an extensible, documented API. Now you can write that app, without worrying about where you’re going to get the data from. Tasks that took a few thousand lines of code now only take a couple hundred. We’re here to make what should’ve been an open system, open.

Please note that we are not affiliated with the University of Florida in any way. This API is unofficial, and unsupported by UF. If you manage to get in trouble while using it, it’s your own fault.

Contents

• 1. Getting Started
  • 1.1. Contents
    • 1.1.1. Installing
      • 1.1.1.1. Dependencies
        • 1.1.1.1.1. Python 3
        • 1.1.1.1.2. LXML
        • 1.1.1.1.3. Sphinx
      • 1.1.1.2. Century
        • 1.1.1.2.1. Building Documentation
    • 1.1.2. Representing and Handling Course Sections
      • 1.1.2.1. The CourseCode Class
      • 1.1.2.2. The CourseMeeting Class
      • 1.1.2.3. The Course Class
      • 1.1.2.4. The CourseList Class
• 2. Web-Browser Services
  • 2.1. browser – Webbrowser-like Extensable State Machine
  • 2.2. Parsers and Plugins
    • 2.2.1. parsers – Generic Webpage Parsers for the browser Module
    • 2.2.2. plugins – Extending the browser Module
      • 2.2.2.1. The Plugin Architechure
      • 2.2.2.2. decorators – Decorators for Writing Plugins and Extending Pluggable
        • 2.2.2.2.1. Plugin Related Decorators
        • 2.2.2.2.2. Pluggable Related Decorators
      • 2.2.2.3. redirect – Base Plugin Class for Handling Redirections
      • 2.2.2.4. cookies – Automatic Handling of Browser Cookies
      • 2.2.2.5. useragent – HTTP user-agent Spoofing
      • 2.2.2.6. keepalive – Handler for HTTP Keep-Alive Headers
        • 2.2.2.6.1. keepalive
        • 2.2.2.6.2. keepalive.handler
      • 2.2.2.7. plugins.uf – UF-Specific Plugins
        • 2.2.2.7.1. login – Automatic and Semi-Automatic Gatorlink Login Handling
        • 2.2.2.7.2. isis – Tools for Working With ISIS (Integrated Student Information System)
• 3. Task-Oriented Services
  • 3.1. Pre-Built Tasks
    • 3.1.1. courses – Object Representations of UF Course Information
      • 3.1.1.1. courses.fuzzy_match – Fuzzy Matching with List and String-like Objects
        • 3.1.1.1.1. Algorithms
        • 3.1.1.1.2. Meta-Algorithms
    • 3.1.2. phonebook – Handling of the UF Student and Faculty Directory
      • 3.1.2.1. Supporting Modules
        • 3.1.2.1.1. person – Object Representations of a Person’s Directory Listing
        • 3.1.2.1.2. fields – Constructs to Aid Handling of Phonebook Field Types
        • 3.1.2.1.3. http – A Phonebook Web-Interface Backend
        • 3.1.2.1.4. ldap.utils – Processing for LDAP-Like Person Listings
    • 3.1.3. tasks.isis – ISIS-Related Tasks and Utilities
      • 3.1.3.1. Submodules
        • 3.1.3.1.1. schedule_reader – Tools for Reading a Schedule from ISIS
    • 3.1.4. tasks.registrar – Registar-Related Tasks and Utilities
      • 3.1.4.1. Submodules
        • 3.1.4.1.1. course_listings – Pulling Course Data from the Registrar

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page