Hacking together a web-scraping enrollment app

Overview of My Submission

If you're a university student / have ever been to uni, you know how cumbersome enrollment can be. You need to look for a class, find the profs, find out how good they are and their average GPA - all this takes time!

So, this app aims to sort professors by rating and GPA trend for any course in this semester or the upcoming one/(s) at my uni - and all you need to do is look up course 😄

Submission Category

Choose Your Own Adventure

Link to Code

nandanv2702 / unitrack

Sort UW-Madison professors by rating and GPA trend for any course in this semester or the upcoming one/(s)

UniTrack

Sort professors by rating and GPA trend for any course in this semester or the upcoming one/(s)

The Problem

Here's what it's like enrolling for classes:

• Search for a class on the Course Search and Enroll App
• Search for every professor's rating online
• Search for every professor's GPA trends on MadGrades
• Try to make sense of this data
• Have a Spotted Cow 🍻
• Repeat for 5 other classes this semester

The Solution

Here's what you could do instead:

• Look up a class on this app
• Have a Spotted Cow 🍻
• View grade trends and ratings all in one place!

What I Used

• MadGrades API
  • Find course by name, e.g., 'Econ 101'
  • Find all GPA data and filter by professor
• UW Madison's Public Course Search and Enroll API
  • Find course in a particular semester
  • Find professors for all sections in one course in a semester
• Good ol' web scraping for…

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Additional Resources / Info

Here's some of the tools I used

• MongoDB Atlas
• NuxtJS - a VueJS framework
• ChakraUI - an accessibility-oriented component library