UMD.io is an open API for the University of Maryland. The main purpose is to give developers easy access to data to build great applications. In turn, developers can improve the University of Maryland with the things they build.

Easy API access to

• Four years of course data
• Live Bus data, through NextBus
• Campus Building names and locations
• Information on Professors and Faculty
• Basic info about all Majors

To use the api, please refer to our documentation.

If you're interested in contributing to UMD.io, please read our Contributing guide. To work on umd.io, or to run your own instance, start by forking and cloning this repo.

First, install docker and docker-compose. Then, clone the repo along with the umdio-data submodule.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/umdio/umdio.git

Then, launch the development environment.

# You may need to run docker-related commands with `sudo` if you're a linux user
docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up

Once launched, run the scrapers. This will take some time, so in the meantime, review the rest of the guide.

# You may need to run `chmod +x umdio.sh`
./umdio.sh scrape

See contributors

We use the MIT License.