I actually had a lot of luck creating such a timetable website[0] for NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. Initial version did hacky scraping, eventually I found a database, after the site site gained traction the IME Faculty (IT, Maths, Electrical engineering) got in touch about the site.
At this point they actually paid me to opensource the code and hired me to setup a copy for them. We never got their version to take off, as mine was to well established. So eventually we shut their instance down, and mine lives happily on despite the fact that I've long since left the university.
IME also did some great follow up putting quite a bit of effort in creating an API for "me". The problem was that the central IT services could only provide payed access to their WSDL based XML service. So IME basically payed them for access and then reexported it with their own API[1] + caching.
On a side note, most of the code[2], except for the importers should be generic enough to use at other schools :-)
[0]: http://ntnu.1024.no/ or http://ntnu.1024.no/2014/fall/adamcik/35/ for a sample timetable
[1]: http://www.ime.ntnu.no/api/
[2]: http://github.com/adamcik/plan
At this point they actually paid me to opensource the code and hired me to setup a copy for them. We never got their version to take off, as mine was to well established. So eventually we shut their instance down, and mine lives happily on despite the fact that I've long since left the university.
IME also did some great follow up putting quite a bit of effort in creating an API for "me". The problem was that the central IT services could only provide payed access to their WSDL based XML service. So IME basically payed them for access and then reexported it with their own API[1] + caching.
On a side note, most of the code[2], except for the importers should be generic enough to use at other schools :-)
[0]: http://ntnu.1024.no/ or http://ntnu.1024.no/2014/fall/adamcik/35/ for a sample timetable
[1]: http://www.ime.ntnu.no/api/
[2]: http://github.com/adamcik/plan