udacity

Unofficial Udacity API (for Python)

by Ty-Lucas Kelley

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This is an unofficial client library for interacting with Udacity courses and users. It is made up of two parts:

• Catalog
  • A wrapper for Udacity's public Catalog API
• User
  • Log into your Udacity account, see user info, and check course progress

Warning

Note that this is not an official Udacity product. They are allowed to change their internal API at any time, and I will try my best to make sure this library gets updated as well.

In the end, be sure to use this only for personal purposes, not any serious application with a lot of users.

Installation

It's on pip! Install it from the terminal, with Python 2 or 3:

$ pip install udacity

You can then include it in your application:

import udacity

User

The User class is used to view a user's account info and see their progress in courses. It includes a lot of convenience functions.

Run pydoc udacity.User for information about each method and what it returns.

Example usage:

import udacity

user = udacity.User('[e-mail]', 'password123')
name = user.name()

# print out quiz completion rate in each course
for course in user.enrollments():
    prog = user.progress(course)
    print('Course: ' + prog['title'])
    print('\t' + str(prog['quizzes_completed']) + '/'
            + str(prog['quiz_count']) + ' quizzes completed')

Catalog

The Catalog class can be used to filter data from Udacity's Catalog API. It has plenty of convenience functions.

Run pydoc udacity.Catalog for information about each method and what it returns.

Example usage:

import udacity

c = udacity.Catalog()

tracks = c.tracks()

track_names = [t['name'] for t in tracks]
web_dev_teachers = c.instructors('cs253')
nd001_description = c.degree('nd001')['expected_learning']