NYU Academic Calendar Processing

nyucal is for parsing the NYU Academic Calendar web page into machine readable calendar formats.

Each semester we read that page to find the dates of various holidays and deadlines. We wanted a nice way to import those events into calendar software (e.g., Google Calendar, which can also be imported into Slack).

This is also a simple exercise in creating python packages, including testing and documentation.

Features

• Command-line interface (CLI)
• Python package

Full documentation can be found at https://nyucal.readthedocs.io.

License

MIT License.

Credits

nyucal is built on some great python packages, including:

• lxml for parsing HTML files (even bad ones) into XML element trees, as well as searching and traversing them.
• click for creating high-functioning command line applications

The package structure itself was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.