If you're ever lost and don't know when your next lecture, practical, lab, or tutorial will be in, or in fact where it even is, then this web application will help simply the process of managing your time at the University of Sydney.
iOS supports this web application natively through Safari, and so you can add your timetable automatically with two taps of a finger after you've submitted your credentials to login.
The instructions for iOS assume that you're using iOS Safari, however, if you're on a PC/Mac, and want to sync your timetable with your iPhone, then you can send the generated ics file via email to your iPhone, and you're all set!
With Google Calendar, you can sync this calendar with your Android device. So, by extension, this web application supports Android devices as well (although it hasn't been tested)!
Outlook (tested with Outlook 2013) works, but to a degree. Your timetable will be imported but your times will be off by an hour, due to timezone/daylight savings issues. iOS and Google Calendar do not have this daylight savings issue.
Link to Web App: https://www.extramaster.net/USyd/timetableExporter/iOS Video Demo
Instructions for iOS
With this web app, you can "sync" your University of Sydney timetable into your iOS calendar app, so that you don't have to refer to an image every time.
Step 1:
Enter your University of Sydney UniKey and Password. Don't worry, this will only be used to gain access to your timetable!
Step 2:
Wait for the Web App to process your timetable. This may take up to 60 seconds, so put your phone down for a while.
Step 3:
Click on the "Add All" button that appears on the Top-Right corner
Step 4:
Check your Calendar! If successful, your timetable should be synced to your iPhone.
Instructions for Gmail
The UNSW version can sync directly to Gmail using OAuth whilst this can't? Well it might be able to in the future, but who uses Google Calander if they have an iPhone?
Step 1:
Enter your University of Sydney UniKey and Password. Again, don't worry, this will only be used to gain access to your timetable!
Step 2:
Wait a while, around 60 seconds, until you get a prompt like the one below
Step 3:
Save/download the file to a location where you can easily retrieve it later. I recommend your Desktop for this.
Step 4:
Go to https://www.google.com/calendar/render#j and click on the "Import Calendar" link, as displayed below.
Step 5:
Click on the "Choose File" button in the following dialogue prompt, and locate the process.ics file that you downloaded in step 3. And then click on "Import"
Step 6:
If successful, a prompt will show up to tell you that your calendar import has been successful. Enjoy your newly imported timetable!
No, I'm not releasing the source code. But authentication can be achieved with the following code:
import requests, re
wasmUrl = "https://wasm.usyd.edu.au/login.cgi?apprealm=usyd&appID=tt-studentweb&destURL=https%3A//www.timetable.usyd.edu.au/personaltimetable/"
headers = {"Referer": "https://wasm.usyd.edu.au/login.cgi?apprealm=usyd&appID=tt-studentweb&destURL=https%3A//www.timetable.usyd.edu.au/personaltimetable/"}
post_data = "appID=tt-studentweb&appRealm=usyd&destURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timetable.usyd.edu.au%2Fpersonaltimetable%2F&credential_0=" + username + "&credential_1=" + password + "&Submit=Sign+in"
with requests.Session() as requestsSession:
try:
secondaryUrl = "https://www.timetable.usyd.edu.au" + re.search(r'"/personaltimetable/timetable/(.*?)/current/"',requestsSession.post(requestsSession.post(wasmUrl, data = post_data, headers = headers, verify=False,allow_redirects=False).url).content).group(0)[1:-1]
except Exception as e:
raise "Your login creditionals failed to return a result. Please restart again."
data2 = requestsSession.get(secondaryUrl, headers = {"Referer" : "https://www.timetable.usyd.edu.au/personaltimetable/"}, verify=False)
timetablesite = data2.content
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