LearnForFree is a search engine to find free educational content for every topic a person would need. It searches and indexes many different sites to give the best results tailored to the search. You can search any topic and get the best results back!
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We wanted to create an app that fetches results from multiple sources. There were a total of 7 different platforms for free courses that we will be making use of, and by the time of the deadline we successfully wrapped 2 (almost 3!) of them. We are currently using, and will be using any techniques in order to get the data, including API calls, pre-saving an index into a file, scraping, and even Selenium!
Because our app is highly extensible - by creating a high level of abstraction in the back-end, new functionality can be added very easily.
| Provider name | Status | Message |
|---|---|---|
| edX | :white_check_mark: | currently implemented via one-time fetching of the index into a file, and using it for the search. The edX also has an API but there's no uri for keyword search, making it extremely lengthy to do it this way. |
| Futurelearn | :white_check_mark: | successfully implemented via web scraping |
| Coursera | :large_blue_diamond: | To be implemented via Selenium (pagination is dynamic) |
| khan academy | :large_blue_diamond: | To be researched (it doesnt have courses, but other materials such as articles, so we'll decide on how to incorporate that) |
| openwho dot org | :large_blue_diamond: | To be implemented via Selenium (object population and pagination are dynamic) |
| alison | :large_blue_diamond: | To be researched |
env satisfies the required dependencies. If it doesnt, run pip install <dependency_name>./learnforfree, run python manage.py runserver in order to run the Django web server.http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and enjoy!App is hosted in free Heroku account, the server enters sleep mode when not in use. Please allow a few seconds for the servers to restart, if you notice a delay.
https://learnforfree.herokuapp.com/