liawesomesaucer / SourceGrade

A web scraper for www.gradesource.com built with MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, React and Redux

SourceGrade

SourceGrade is a web scraping app built with MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, React, and Redux for GradeSource. SourceGrade is designed to make your life easier by finding all your scores for a particular class on GradeSource, and presenting all the data in a meaningful and elegant way. It also allows you to create accounts to save all your information for a class so that you never have to remember your secret number or course url again!

Usage

1. Add your class url here if it hasn't already been previously added.

2. Enter your Secret Number and Class in the input fields

3. View your scores and statistics for each assessment or category.

In addition, if you want to use the API directly the route is:

http://www.sourcegrade.xyz/api/scrape?id={secret number}&url={class url}

Example API Request:

http://www.sourcegrade.xyz/api/scrape?id=8010&url=http://www.gradesource.com/demo/example1/index.html

Install and run locally

Requirements:

• MongoDB
• Node.js 6+

1. Clone this repository
2. Run npm install
3. Start MongoDB
4. Create a .env file in the main directory, providing the two environment variables DB_URI (url to your MongoDB server) and SECRET (secret for encrypting JSONWebTokens). Example:

DB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/sourcegrade
SECRET=supercoolsecret

Production mode:

npm start

Development (Webpack dev server) mode:

npm run start:dev

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

Contributions are always welcome!