Waitz App Scraper

Status: In-Progress
Published: [TBD]
Updated: 9/19/2024

This scraper logs information about occupancy by time across various dining halls and study spaces at Vanderbilt University.

Directory

.
├── scrapers
│   ├── scraper.js
│   ├── scraper.ts
│   ├── types.js
│   └── types.ts
├── README.md
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

2 directories, 8 files

Deployment History

• 9/19: The script correctly logs occupancy information when run locally.
• 9/17: Update README and call API.
• 9/12: Load in scraper directory.
• 8/27: Project specs and documentation.

Future releases

• Log scraped information to a Google Sheet accessible by Hustler staffers
• Set time interval for the scraper to run and notify #data if the data fails to be fetched.
• Scrape comparison/trend data as well.

Credits

• Design and Development | Katherine Oung
• Typescript Scraper Documenation

Powered by The Vanderbilt Hustler Data Team

For questions, comments or curiosities:

• Hustler staff: Slack the #data team.
• The rest of the 🌎: email Data Editor Katherine Oung