Not all of the rooms are classrooms. Some may be labs or other specialized rooms. Also even if there are no classes there may still be people in the room for other reasons.
View rooms which are available and filter by currently empty rooms or rooms which are empty for the rest of the day.
First I got data from Laurier's course registration site. I initially tried to use their endpoint which returns the data, but I found that it worked somewhat strangely. Basically the results that the endpoint returns isn't based on the query but instead based on your last search. I think it probably updates the browser cookies and then the server takes those cookies, verifies them, and then returns the response based on that. So I wasn't able to scrape it automatically, but I was able to use one of the endpoints to get all the subject codes and then create a few large searches, and then go to the search results endpoint and download the JSON.
The next step was to parse all the course JSON data and put it into a more usable format. This is what the parser.json file is for. It then saves the parsed data into a new JSON file in the schedules directory.
Actually displaying the data proved to be the most difficult part. I had initially envisioned a table similar to Lettucemeet but because classes start and end at times like 8:20 or 2:50, I wouldn't be able to make a table for every hour. I'm sure there are smarter ways to display those times but I ended up going with the most straightforward approach and instead made a row for every ten minutes in a day. Although it's kind of ugly and takes up a lot more space than I originally wanted.
