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🏫 Official course planning platform for National University of Singapore.
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Show the teaching prof of the module #3289

Open davidsqf opened 3 years ago

davidsqf commented 3 years ago

Is it possible to show the module lecturer's name on the module detail page?

chrisgzf commented 3 years ago

Currently, the API provided to us by NUS doesn't provide the lecturer's details. We are also not sure if NUS actually has "accurate" datasets with clean data that they can easily provide us.

If anyone knows of any means to gather this data, feel free to comment in this thread. There are "means" that we know exists, such as scraping Luminus. However, not all modules have Luminus modules already created, so the dataset might be incomplete / have a lot of noise (as it might include the names of the undergraduate TAs, and some mods have lots of TAs). If anybody would like to take this up, feel free to comment below.

dingyuchen commented 2 years ago

We can scrape this information off the NUS website here

I would like to take on this feature request if possible, but I am also curious what is a good way to keep this information updated. My approach would be to keep this in a local json file for now, but I'm open to suggestions.