TritonLink for Python

Overview

This is a python library that simulates users' interaction with UCSD TritonLink Student SSO login system.

WARNING: THIS SCRIPT IS JUST AN IMPLEMENTATION OF IDEAS!!!

Last tested: 2017 April

Dependency

BeautifulSoup, Requests, re

Documentation

Create an instance

Create a instance for TritonLink session

tl = TritonLink(user_name, user_password)

user_name and user_password should be the Active Directory (AD) user name/password that is able to use Student SSO to login TritonLink

###Login into TritonLink Simulate user's action and login with Student SSO

tl.login()

###Retrieve Student Information Retrieve student info based on the current TritonLink login

student_info = tl.get_student_info()

student_info will be a key-value pair dictionary.

Keys	Values
name	name of the student
college	residential college
major	current major in UCSD
years	current year in UCSD
account_balance	current account balance in TritonLink
holds	number of holds in TritonLink

###Retrieve Enrollment Information Retrieve student enrollment information based on the current TritonLink login

####Retrieve Enrollment/Quarter Information

enrolled_courses = tl.get_courses_enrolled()

enrolled_courses is a key-value pair dictionary

For example:

for quarter, courses in enrolled_courses.iteritems():
	print "You've selected the following courses for "+quarter+" :";
	for course in courses:
		#whatever

Keys	Values
(name of the quarter, e.g. "Spring Qtr 2015")	a list of key-value pairs for courses (described below)

####Retrieve Course List

courses = enrolled_courses[quarter_name] will save the list of courses into courses

courses[x] will be a key-value pair dictionary described as following

Keys	Values
department	department of the course (e.g. "CSE")
section	section number of the course (e.g. "87")
title	title of the course (e.g. "Introduction to Robotics")
units	number of units (e.g. "1.00")
grading	method of grading (e.g. "Letter" or "P/NP")
instructor	name of the instructor (Last Name, First Name)
meeting	a list of meetings relating to the course (including Lecture/Discussion/Midterm/Final)

####Retrieve Meetings for Course

meetings = courses[x]['meeting']will save the list of meetings into meetings

meetings[x] will be a key-value pair dictionary

Keys	Values
id	id number for the meeting (only valid for a Lecture-type meeting)
type	type of the meeting ( "Discussion"/"Lecture"/"Midterm"/"Final")
section	section number (e.g. "A00") of the meeting
time	meeting time of the meeting (e.g. "7:00p - 7:50p")
days	days on which the meeting will hold (e.g. "MTuWThF")
building	building in which the meeting will hold (e.g. "CENTR")
room	room in which the meeting will hold (e.g. "119")

###See python script demo.py for more info.