College portal to app

[DrJones]

Hi. At my college students have a portal where they can see their schedule etc.

I'm considerating to develop an app to show that information in a mobile friendly way. But i don't know how to pull the data from the website to an app. I was wondering if it was possible to store pieces of the HTML code and populate forexample af tableview with the data.

- Jonas

[baja_yu]

The best way would be if you could communicate with the server through a webservice, and have it send you the data in a more manageable format like JSON or XML. Parsing HTML to get the data from it could be very tricky and has potential to break your app if anything in the page format changes. Best to talk to your College webmaster.

[glogic]

and if you decide to go down the json route id advise you to check out restkit. Been a life safer for me https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit