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📚 Find information on UC Irvine courses here

Try out one of these quick ways to play with our courses endpoints:

$ curl https://api.peterportal.org/rest/v0/courses/all

[
...
{
    "department": "I&C SCI",
    "number": "51",
    "title": "Introductory Computer Organization",
    "description": "Multilevel view of system hardware and software..."
},
...
]

$ python -m pip install requests
---> 100%
$ python
Python 3.8.5
# >>>$ import requests
# >>>$ response = requests.get("https://api.peterportal.org/rest/v0/courses/all")
# >>>$ response.json()

[
...
{
    "department": "I&C SCI",
    "number": "51",
    "title": "Introductory Computer Organization",
    "description": "Multilevel view of system hardware and software..."
},
...
]

/courses/all

GET all courses

Code Description
200 A list of all courses available on the UCI Catalogue. Each element is a JSON object containing information on each course (department, number, title, and description)
200 Successful Response
[
  ...
  {
    "department": "I&C SCI",
    "number": "51",
    "title": "Introductory Computer Organization",
    "description": "Multilevel view of system hardware and software..."
  },
  ...
]

/courses/{courseID}

GET detailed information on a specific course

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
courseID Course department + course number (without spaces) I&CSCI53, COMPSCI122B, BIOSCI43

Responses

Code Description
200 A JSON object containing every information available on a specific course.
404 Invaild ID/Course not found
200 Successful Response

/courses/I&CSCI53 returns

{
    "id": "I&C SCI 53",
    "department": "I&C SCI",
    "number": "53",
    "school": "Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences",
    "title": "Principles in System Design",
    "course_level": "Lower Division (1-99)",
    "department_alias": [
        "ICS"
    ],
    "units": [
        4,
        4
    ],
    "description": "Introduces basic principles of system software: operating systems, compilers, and networking. Exposure to the following topics through theoretical and practical programming experiences: linking and loading, process and memory management, concurrency and synchronization, network communication, programming for performance, etc.",
    "department_name": "Information and Computer Science",
    "professor_history": [
        "iharris",
        "klefstad",
        "jwongma"
    ],
    "prerequisite_tree": "{\"AND\":[\"I&C SCI 51\"]}",
    "prerequisite_list": [
        "I&C SCI 51"
    ],
    "prerequisite_text": "I&C SCI 51",
    "prerequisite_for": [
        "COMPSCI 122C",
        "COMPSCI 131",
        "COMPSCI 222",
        "I&C SCI 53L"
    ],
    "repeatability": "",
    "grading_option": "",
    "concurrent": "",
    "same_as": "",
    "restriction": "",
    "overlap": "",
    "corequisite": " I&C SCI 53L",
    "ge_list": [],
    "ge_text": "",
    "terms": [
        "2019 Spring",
        "2020 Fall",
        "2019 Fall",
        "2019 Winter",
        "2018 Winter",
        "2018 Spring",
        "2017 Winter",
        "2017 Spring"
    ]
}
404 Not Found

/courses/I&CSCI5555 returns

{
    "timestamp": "Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT",
    "status": 404,
    "error": "Bad Request: Invalid parameter",
    "message": "Course not found",
}