Open YorkU API

A Restful API for all things York University.

Why is this being built?

York University is the 3rd largest university in Canada, and with the recent addition of Lassonde school of Engineering - it's about time something like this existed. Though I doubt openYorkU will become officially adapted, I hope York will see the potential and allow for easier access to their information.

With open data, students may create brilliant apps around it, and profs will have a large data set to work with and discover things otherwise overlooked. Tying this type of service around clubs, news and events; information will travel faster throughout the campus. The world will become aware of all the great things York University offers.

Universities with API's of their own.

• Waterloo University
• Berkeley University
• University of Michigan
• others...

Possible app ideas.

• improved map of campus
  • plot all food buildings, recreational areas, parking lots, and libraries.
  • directions to everything.
  • find the nearest bathroom facilities, art exhibits, or other place of interest.
  • find currently open restaurants and buildings.
  • not enough people know about all the great food places at York, cool study spots, and recreational areas.
• ratings
  • courses (easiness/usefullness)
  • buildings (cleanliness/architectual appeal)
  • restaurants (cleanliness/cost/quantity)
• social timetable picker (like uwflow)
  • pick timetables with your friends, so you're all in the same courses.
• event notifications
  • with support for clubs to post events, every event would be known about
  • (no more missing a bakesale, or a poster sale in Vari Hall.)

Examples

once you've set up the app, and populated the database with entries using resources within the dev_helpers folder, you'll be able to do the following:

• localhost:1337/courses to get a list of all the courses york has to offer.
• localhost:1337/courses?limit=5&fields=title&q=science get only the titles of 5 courses with 'science' in it.
• localhost:1337/courses/#course_code# look a little closer at the course.
• localhost:1337/courses?credit_count=3,6&year_level=3&course_subject=EECS get all the 3rd year computer science programs with a credit count of 3 or 6.
• localhost:1337/subjects get a list of all the subjects, and their respective courses
• localhost:1337/places/restaurants get a list of all the restaurants at York, their open/close times, gps co-ordinates, and types of food served.
• localhost:1337/places/restaurants?tags=coffee&now_open=1 get all the open coffee shops
• localhost:1337/places/buildings get a list of all buildings, including all Points of Interests within them, gps co-ordinates, and building cover polygon for google maps.

Contact.

mlisbit@gmail.com