Mwcrawler is a gem for parsing UnB's Matricula Web data into consumable hashes.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mwcrawler'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install mwcrawler

First instantiate a new crawler crawler = Mwcrawler::Crawler.new then you can crawl like so:

courses_hash = crawler.courses
# return example
[{"type"=>"Presencial",
  "code"=>"19",
  "name"=>"ADMINISTRAÇÃO",
  "shift"=>"Diurno",
  "curriculums"=>
   [{"name"=>"Administração",
     "degree"=>"Bacharel",
     "semester_max"=>"8",
     "semester_min"=>"16",
     "credits"=>"200"}]},
 {"type"=>"Presencial",
  "code"=>"701",
  "name"=>"ADMINISTRAÇÃO",
  "shift"=>"Noturno",
  "curriculums"=>
   [{"name"=>"Administração",
     "degree"=>"Bacharel",
     "semester_max"=>"8",
     "semester_min"=>"16",
     "credits"=>"200"}]}
]

The crawled campus by default is :darcy_ribeiro campus, but you can specify another crawler.classes(:planaltina).

The available resources are:

• classes
• courses
• departments
• curriculum

While classes and curriculum take course_code as param for crawling, courses and departments take as params any of the four campuses :darcy_ribeiro, :planaltina, :ceilandia and :gama.

The utility method semester returns the current semester.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/danilodelyima/mwcrawler.

When developing new features the interface must reflect how much scrapping is necessary. In other words, if many pages are crawled the user must call many methods. This way we don't overload method with functionalities and the user developer can grasp more easily the cost of scrapping that info.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.