paco-ua-api

API for Portal Académico Online - Universidade de Aveiro

This API uses Puppeteer to, through a headless browser, log in and scrape the page Secretaria Virtual from paco.ua.pt. The results are routed with Express.js.

This app is a personal project and has no affiliation with Universidade de Aveiro.

API Documentation

Table of Contents

1. Setup
2. Usage
3. Features
4. Apps

Setup

Setup the server locally with Docker:

Make sure to have Docker running on your machine. [How to here]

• Build the image

docker build --tag pacoua-api .

• Run the container

docker run -p 8000:8000 --name pacoua-api pacoua-api

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(To run on a different port, change the value of the port on the left side (8000:8000) in the command above. The port on the right ride (8000:8000) has to always match the port in the file static.js)

Setup the server locally manually:

• Install the node modules

$ npm install

• Run the app

$ npm run devStart

(To run on a different port, change the value of PORT in the file static.js)

After any of the two configurations, the server will be running at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Usage

Every endpoint is accessed through a GET HTTP Request, with your institutional email credentials in the Basic Authorization Header (encrypted in base64). More Information

GET /schedule
  -H 'accept: application/json'
  -H 'Authorization: Basic {base64_encrypted_credentials}'

If everything is correct, this should be the response:

// RESPONSE
{
    "data": {
        "schedule": {
            "Segunda": [
                {
                    "subject": {
                        "name": "SEGURANÇA INFORMÁTICA E NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES",
                        "abbrev": "SIO",
                        "code": "42573"
                    },
                    "start": "9h",
                    "duration": "2h",
                    "capacity": 24,
                    "class": "P8",
                    "room": "04.2.03"
                },
                {
                    "subject": {
                        "name": "ARQUITETURA DE COMPUTADORES I",
                        "abbrev": "AC-I",
                        "code": "41948"
                    },
                    "start": "14h",
                    "duration": "1h",
                    "capacity": 98,
                    "class": "TP1",
                    "room": "ANF. V"
                },
                ...
            ],
            "Terça": [
                {
                    "subject": {
                        "name": "ARQUITETURA DE COMPUTADORES I",
                        "abbrev": "AC-I",
                        "code": "41948"
                    },
                    "start": "9h",
                    "duration": "2h",
                    "capacity": 18,
                    "class": "P07",
                    "room": "04.2.17"
                },
                ...
            ],
            ...
        },
        "school_year": "2021/2022",
        "semester": 1
    },
    "url": "https://paco.ua.pt/secvirtual/horarios/c_horario_aluno.asp",
    "title": "Horário",
    "timestamp": "2022-08-16T01:51:09.193Z"
}

The same applies for all the other endpoints.

Features

• Dados Pessoais   GET /personal
• Situação de prescrição   GET /expiration
• Histórico Notas   GET /subjects/history
• Disciplinas Inscritas   GET /subjects/current
• Estados das Propinas   GET /tuition_fees
• Plano Curricular   GET /subjects
• Calendário de Exames do Aluno   GET /exams
• Calendário de Exames por Disciplina   GET /exams?subjects=...
• Apoio às Aulas   GET /classes
• Horário   GET /schedule
• Requerimentos   GET /requests

Apps

If you have an app that uses this API, feel free to contact me or make a pull request of this README with your app, obeying the table format bellow.

Logo	Name	Contributors	Description
	SchedUA	@digas99	Browser Extension for easy access to your Schedule from Universidade de Aveiro.