courses_id.md

Course Information (by course id)

Description

Returns all available information of a given course for a specific course id.

Parameters

GET /courses/id/{course_id}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
key	String	yes	Valid API Key
course_id	Integer	yes	The id of the course.

Output Format

• json

Examples

GET /courses/id/{course_id}

• http://opencourse.me/api/courses/id/40

Response

Field Name	Type	Description
id	Integer	The id of the course.
title	String	The title of the course.
code	String	The code identifier of the course.
description	String	A brief description of the course.
level	Integer	The level of the course.
credits	Integer	The number of credits of the course.
prerequisites	Array	An array containing all the course codes of the prerequisite courses of the course.
department_id	Integer	The id of the department that the course belongs to.

Output

JSON example

[
  {
    "id": 40,
    "title": "The Italian Renaissance",
    "code": "AT 3109",
    "description": "The phenomenon of the Italian Renaissance and its relation to political, social and economic circumstances. The emergence and function of the arts in shaping the physical and ideological appearance of the Italian cities/centers of power.",
    "level": 6,
    "credits": 15,
    "prerequisites": [
      "AT 1001"
    ],
    "department_id": 6
  }
]