Online Educational Course Aggregator

The work is devoted to the developing of a client-server application for the aggregation of information about online educational courses from different platforms. Online educational courses take a leading place in remote education, which entails a sharp increase in the number of both the courses themselves and the online services that provide them. For this reason, aggregation of courses data can be attributed to the priorities of the modern media space. The paper analyzed the approaches of popular online platforms that provide the possibility of taking courses. Their advantages and disadvantages were identified, on the basis of which the basic requirements for the application were formulated. The developed application consists of the server part, which implements the Representational State Transfer architecture, and the client part, which implements the Single Page Application architecture. For the server part, a software module has also been developed for receiving data on educational courses from the API of a third-party platform Udemy. To develop the server part of the application, the Pyramid backend framework for the Python programming language was used in conjunction with the ORM library SQLAlchemy which interacts with the PostgreSQL DBMS. The client part was developed using the Vue.js micro framework implemented in JavaScript. The paper contains 38 pages, 4 chapters, 19 figures, 3 tables, 16 sources and 4 applications. Keywords: online educational courses, aggregator application, client-server application.