zephirl / mcgillcourseseatstimeline

VSB Scraper getting seats available for McGill courses and create historical charts/visualizations for better course registration timing.

McGillCourseSeatsTimeline

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:

DONE:

• 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

TODO:

• Create .env for credentials
• Add COMP WINTER 2021
• Add ALL courses
• Add data visulation
• Create further documentation/tutorial
• Misc

Snapshot of scraped data :

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.