rooster.io/schedule.js

//schedule.js
var http = require('http');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var config = require('./configuration');

//Wrapper function that is being called by express.
function schedule(req, res, next) {
  get(req.match.url, function (json) {
    req.match.json = json;
    next();
  });
}

//Function for getting the page via http.
function get(url, callback) {
  http.get(url, function (res) {
    var _download = '';

    res.on('data', function (data) {
      _download += data;
    });

    res.on('end', function () {
      callback(to_json(_download));
    });
  });
}

//Function for converting the page into a json dataset.
function to_json(page) {
  var result = cheerio('td:nth-child(3) table', page);
  var is_teacher = cheerio(cheerio(page).find('tr.CoreDark').find('td')[3]).find('a').html() == null;
  var amount_of_days = cheerio(result).find('tr.AccentDark').find('td').length - 1;
  var amount_of_hours = config().amount_of_hours;

  var schedule_data = [];

  var offset = is_teacher ? 5 : 6;

  //Looping for amount of days
  for (day = 0; day < amount_of_days; day++) {
     schedule_data[day] = [];

    //Looping for amount of hours
    for (hour = 0; hour < amount_of_hours; hour++) {
      var schedule = cheerio('tr:nth-child('+ (offset + hour) +')', result);

      //Looping for (optional) specialhours
      var amount_of_special_hours = schedule.find('table').eq(day).children().length;
      schedule_data[day][hour] = {teacher: [], chamber: [], course: [], changed: []};
      for (special_hour = 0; special_hour < amount_of_special_hours; special_hour++) {
         var selected_hour = schedule.find('table').eq(day).find('tr').eq(special_hour).find('td');
         //Give the value of the schedule hour to the fitting array.
         schedule_data[day][hour].teacher[special_hour] = selected_hour.eq(0).html();
         schedule_data[day][hour].chamber[special_hour] = selected_hour.eq(2).html();
         schedule_data[day][hour].course[special_hour] = selected_hour.eq(4).html();
         //Check if the hour is 'changed' by the schedule authors, if so set to true.
         schedule_data[day][hour].changed[special_hour] = selected_hour.eq(0).attr().class == 'tableCellNew' ? true : false;
      }
    }
  }

  return schedule_data;
}

//Exporting the schedule function.
module.exports = schedule;