UST Class Quota Schedule

This repository contains:

1. The (historical) class quota & schedule data of HKUST.
2. The GitHub Action that updates the data regularly.

Note

The update period is 5 minutes.

Structure

History

The historical data are maintained by Git. Every change is recorded in the commit history.

The commit message indicates the time of the update. The format is as follows:

update: ${UPDATE_TIME}

where ${UPDATE_TIME} is the time of the update, formatted in ISO 8601 with the Hong Kong timezone.

Parsed Data

The parsed data is stored in the repository following the structure below:

data/${TERM_CODE}.json

where TERM_CODE represents the term of the data. The first two digits represent the academic year; the last two digits represent the term.

• Fall: 10
• Winter: 20
• Spring: 30
• Summer: 40

For example, the data of 2023-24 Spring is stored in 2330.json; the data of 2023-24 Summer is stored in 2340.json.

Raw Data

The raw data is stored in the repository following the structure below:

data/${TERM_CODE}/${SUBJECT_CODE}.html

where TERM_CODE is the term code (same as above), and SUBJECT_CODE is the subject code, for example, ACCT is accounting.

The raw data is the HTML content of the class quota & schedule page of HKUST.