Module: CodeSchool

Included in:
SiteScraper
Defined in:
lib/code_school/version.rb,
lib/code_school/code_school.rb

Overview

Scraper for CodeSchool website

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
'0.0.4'
DATE = 
'2015-10-24'
COURSES = 
'https://www.codeschool.com/courses'

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#code_school_data ⇒ Object

JSON array of course names (string) and teacher(s) (array)



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 41

def code_school_data
  course_names.zip(teacher_names).map do |c_t|
    # { course: c_t[0], teacher: c_t[1] }
    { c_t[0] => c_t[1] }
  end.to_json
end

#course_names ⇒ Object

Get an array of course names



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 20

def course_names
  courses.xpath('//h2/a').map(&:text)
end

#course_urls ⇒ Object

Change course names to urls



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 25

def course_urls
  # Turn ' ', '.' to '-'
  # Delete ':'
  course_names.map do |name|
    name.downcase.split(' ').join('-').tr('.', '-').delete(':')
  end
end

#courses ⇒ Object

Gets array of courses



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 10

def courses
  Nokogiri::HTML(open(COURSES))
end

#teacher(name) ⇒ Object

Gets names of teacher(s) for one course



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 15

def teacher(name)
  Nokogiri::HTML(open("#{COURSES}/#{name}"))
end

#teacher_names ⇒ Object

Get teachar’s name by visiting each course page



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# File 'lib/code_school/code_school.rb', line 34

def teacher_names
  course_urls.map do |course_url|
    teacher(course_url).xpath('//h3/a').map(&:text)
  end
end