term_courses.md

Course listings by term

GET /terms/{term_id}/courses.{format}

Description

This method returns a list of all courses offered for the given term from the opendata database

Summary

Name	Value	Name	Value
Request Protocol	GET	Requires API Key	Yes
Method ID	1511	Enabled	Yes
Service Name	terms	Service ID	241
Information Steward	Registrar	Data Type	Scraped
Update Frequency	Every term	Cache Time	0 seconds

Notes

• Any value can be null

Sources

• http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/
• http://gradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/

Parameters

GET /terms/{term_id}/courses.{format}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
key	filter	yes	Valid API key
callback	filter	no	JSONP callback format

Output Formats

• json
• xml

Examples

GET /terms/{term_id}/courses.{format}

• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/terms/1161/courses.json
• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/terms/1161/courses.xml
• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/terms/1161/courses.json?callback=myResponse

Response

Field Name	Type	Value Description
units	float	Course credits/units
catalog_number	string	Registrar assigned class number
subject	string	Requested subject acronym
title	string	Class name and title

Any value can be null

Output

JSON

{
  "meta":{
    "requests":796933,
    "timestamp":1452284471,
    "status":200,
    "message":"Request successful",
    "method_id":1511,
    "method":{
      
    }
  },
  "data":[
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"607",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Tax Issues Integration"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"611",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"External Reporting"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"621",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"System Reliability Principles and Criteria"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"622",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Electronic Commerce"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"650",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Assurance and Governance"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"652",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Forensic Accounting"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"680",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Performance Measurement and Control systems for Implementing Strategy"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"685",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Performance Management"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"690",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Topics in Accounting"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"701",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Financial Accounting Research Seminar"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"750",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Auditing Research Seminar"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"760",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Taxation Research Seminar"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"784",
      "units":0.5,
      "title":"Selected Topics in Research Methodology"
    },
    {
      "subject":"ACINTY",
      "catalog_number":"600",
      "units":0,
      "title":"Academic Integrity Module"
    }
  ]
}