Tired of looking up for your internship application status in Insternshala by scrolling and switching to different pages again and again?
So, this one's for you. A simple webscraping tool which will extract the required data for you and put it into a csv file, in a structured and sorted format.
Open to suggestions for upcoming versions
You should have the following installed on your local machine:
NodeJs
npm
Terminal
Below are the download links for the same:
Install them and then move to the next step.
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Download and extract the repository.
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Start terminal and change working directory to the extracted repository.
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Make sure your current working directory contains the file named
index.js -
To install the required dependencies, inside the terminal, run command
npm install
- Say your email address is
abc@gmail.comand password ispassword. (You'll be having something different, use yours only) - Using the terminal run command
node index.js abc@gmail.com password
Basically you have to provide credentials as the arguments while running the application.
- Wait for a few seconds till you see a
output.csvfile in your directory. - DONE !!! Just open the
output.csvfile and you have all your required data. You can sort it in MS Excel or any other application
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NodeJs
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npm dependencies used:
- "request-promise": "^4.2.5" : To send requests.
- "ora": "^4.0.4", : For loading animation.
- "json2csv": "^5.0.1": For creating .csv file
This was something which I had in my mind from a very long time. I didn't now stuff back then so wasn't able to come up with anything. This was really a fun project, got to learn a lot, about cookies and stuff and so much more.
I tried to make this README as detailed as possible. If you have any queries or suggestions you can E-mail me at mehul170104047@iitg.ac.in or mehul355180@gmail.com.