IIT Bhubaneswar News API

A JSON API to scrap latest news, events details and notices from http://www.iitbbs.ac.in

Features

• News and Updates
  • Return JSONified count, link text and URL for top 30 news and updates.
• Events
  • Return JSONified count, link text and URL of all upcoming events.
• Notices
  • Return JSONified count, link text and URL of all available notices.
• Bus Schedule
  • Get Latest links of PDF and XLS bus schedule files.
• Time table
  • Get correct timetable of the day on passing your roll number.
• Tweets
  • Get the latest tweets from IIT Bhubaneswar's official handle via this endpoint.

Schema

All API access is over HTTPS, and accessed from the <https://iitbbs.herokuapp.com>. All data is sent as JSON.

curl -i https://iitbbs.herokuapp.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Server: gunicorn/19.7.1
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:31:03 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 200
Via: 1.1 vegur

{
  'author' : 'Developer Student Club, IIT Bhubaneswar'
  'email' : '[email protected]/[email protected]',
  'endpoint' : 'http://dsciitbbs-newsapi.herokuapp.com/',
  'project_name' : 'IITBBSNewsAPI',
  'project_url' : 'https://dsciitbbs.github.io/iitbbsnewsapi/'
}

Endpoints

GET: /news

Result:

{
  "count": 30, 
  "list": [
    {
      "text": "New Admission : 2017-18", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/admission-portal.php"
    }, 
    {
      "text": "Recruitment of Part-Time Coaches, Yoga Instructor & Yoga Assistant", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/notice/news_1499481442.pdf"
    }, 
    {
      "text": "Information to the provisionally selected candidates  for joining to M.Sc. Programme 2017-18", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/msc.php"
    }, 
  ]
}

GET: /events

Result:

{
  "count": 1, 
  "list": [
    {
      "text": "7th International Conference On Soft Computing for Problem Solving during December 23-24, 2017", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/notice/event_1488324349.pdf"
    }
  ]
}

GET: /notices

Result:

{
  "count": 39, 
  "list": [
    {
      "text": "Result of Physical Training Instructor", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/notice/resultofphysicaltraininginstructor_1498601014.pdf"
    }, 
    {
      "text": "Subjects to be offered for Summer Quarter 2016-17", 
      "url": "http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/notice/subjectstobeofferedforsummerquarter201617_1495022716.pdf"
    }, 
  ]
}

GET: /bus

Result:

{
  "pdf": "www.iitbbs.ac.in/transportation-fle/transport_1529956769.pdf",
  "xls": "www.iitbbs.ac.in/transportation-fle/transport_1529956769.xls"
}

GET: /timetable?roll={roll}

Result for roll=16CS01017:

{
  "status":"200",
  "data":[
  {
    "subject":"NSS",
    "time":"5:30-6:30"
  },
  {
    "subject":"Advanced Algorithms",
    "time":"2:30-4:30"}
  ],
}

GET: /tweets..

Result:

{
  "count": 30,
  "list": [
    {
      "text":"ISRO chief K Sivan Visit Lingaraj Temple In Bhubaneswar ",
      "url': 'https://youtu.be/SqmnzroBM6k"
    }, 
    {
      "text": "ISRO Chief K Sivan On Chandrayaan 2 Mission", 
      "url": "https://youtu.be/PcVqihrWd-c"
    },
    ]
}

Contributing

Feel free to submit a pull request or an issue. Sugest new features on issue tracker.

License

Built with ♥ by Developer Student Club, IIT Bhubaneswar under MIT License
Special Thanks to Aman Pratap Singh (@apsknight) who originally came up with the idea.