drexel-api v1.0.0

Drexel API

drexel-api provides a public API for data related to Drexel University. All data provided by the API is already publicly accessible from Drexel University websites.

Colleges & Courses

drexel-api provides a colleges object that allows enumerating through every college and course provided at drexel. Each college object in colleges has a number of course objects, which each have the code name of the course (such as "CS-171"), the proper name of the course (such as "Computer Programming I"), the number of credits the course is worth, and a list of all prerequisites for the course.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites object provided by each course can come in many forms. That being said, it will always be an array on the outer-most layer. A single prerequisite object has the following form:

{
    "name": "CS-171",
    "minimum grade": "C"
}

Some classes allow some choice between prerequisities. In this case, a prerequisite choice object looks like the following:

{
    "one of": [
        <prerequisite>,
        <prerequisite>,
        <prerequisite>,
        ...
    ]
}

The prerequisites in one of can also contain nested one ofs. The top-level prerequisite array then looks something like the following:

[
    <single-prerequisite>,
    <single-prerequisite>,
    "one of": {
        <prerequisite>, 
        <prerequisite>,
        ...
    }
]

This can get minorly complicated for certain classes. Here's the format for ARCH-283, for example:

"ARCH-283": {
    "course name": "Architecture Studio 2C",
    "credits": "4.0",
    "prerequisites": [
        {
            "one of": [
                [
                    {
                        "course name": "ARCH-222",
                        "minimum grade": "C-"
                    },
                    {
                        "course name": "ARCH-252",
                        "minimum grade": "C-"
                    }
                ],
                {
                    "course name": "ARCH-170",
                    "minimum grade": "C-"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "course name": "ARCH-282",
            "minimum grade": "C-"
        },
        {
            "course name": "ARCH-225",
            "minimum grade": "C-"
        }
    ]
}

Using the API

Although the JSON files are themselves the API, drexel-api also provides a set of JavaScript query methods along with TypeScript declarations.