courses.md

List of all courses

GET /courses.{format}

Description

This method returns a list of all courses (currently and historically offered) from the opendata database

Summary

Name	Value	Name	Value
Request Protocol	GET	Requires API Key	Yes
Method ID	1471	Enabled	Yes
Service Name	courses	Service ID	239
Information Steward	Registrar	Data Type	Scraped
Update Frequency	Every term	Cache Time	0 seconds

Notes

• This endpoint returns over 6000 courses!
• Any value can be null

Sources

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

Parameters

GET /courses.{format}

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

Output Formats

• json
• xml

Examples

GET /courses.{format}

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

Response

Field Name	Type	Value Description
course_id	string	Registrar assigned course ID
subject	string	Requested subject acronym
catalog_number	string	Registrar assigned class number
title	string	Class name and title

Any value can be null

Output

JSON

{
  "meta":{
    "requests":835287,
    "timestamp":1456502387,
    "status":200,
    "message":"Request successful",
    "method_id":1471,
    "method":{
      
    }
  },
  "data":[
    {
      "course_id":"011672",
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"604",
      "title":"Statutory Interpretation"
    },
    {
      "course_id":"011673",
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"605",
      "title":"International Tax"
    },
    {
      "course_id":"011674",
      "subject":"ACC",
      "catalog_number":"606",
      "title":"Business Valuations"
    }
  ]
}