Goal: create a historical chart with the rate at which different courses at McGill University fill up to enable students to have an idea of how much in advance they should register for a course, if a course usually fills up, or if during add-drop period some seats get available, ect...
To do so, it scrapes the McGill VSB website (https://vsb.mcgill.ca/vsb/welcome.jsp) multiple times a day.
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This is still in development:
- Iterate through all COMP FALL 2021 course and check the number of seats available (and waitlist if applicable) on VSB with Seleniunm web scraper
- Save data to MangoDB with pyMango
- Automated in Heroku : Implemented in a Heroku server so that it can automatically save course data multiple times per day
- Create .env for credentials
- Add COMP WINTER 2021
- Add ALL courses
- Add data visulation
- Create further documentation/tutorial
- Misc
Here is the snapshot of the first 2 scrapes for a portion of CS courses, right after course registration started.
The "-4" for waitlist indicates there is no waitlist available for this course at the moment.
