mta-exam-scraper

Scrap exam information from MTA website

Demo

Requirements

python >= 2.7 && python < 3.0
python-dev (if you are running on linux)
pip
scrapy == 0.24.4

Installing python stuff on linux

sudo apt-get install python python-dev python-pip

Installing python stuff on Mac (via brew)

brew install python

Setup

sudo pip install scrapy==0.24.4
git clone https://github.com/ranl/mta-exam-scraper.git

Usage

cd mta-exam-scraper

# print all the megamot ids & names
scrapy crawl exam_spider -t jsonlines -o - -a only_list_megama=1 --loglevel=ERROR

# scrap all the exams from MTA and print the items as json to STDOUT
scrapy crawl exam_spider -t jsonlines -o - --loglevel=ERROR

# crawl all the exams in MTA and print debug logs
scrapy crawl exam_spider

# crawl only the megama with id of 50000118 (Computer Science)
scrapy crawl exam_spider -a megama=50000118

# crawl all the exams in MTA and output each Item as a json onliner in the /tmp/data_from_crawler.json file
crawl exam_spider -o /tmp/data_from_crawler.json -t jsonlines

# print more help about the scrapy crawl command
scrapy crawl exam_spider --help