Add support for codechef Problem URL

[Rishabh-malhotraa]

Requirement

Currently, Caucus only supports codeforces and atcoder links, but it would be great to add support for CodeChef links.

• Changes need to be made in the caucus server to add the functionality to scrape the CodeChef question from the get response. Also, some UI changes in the front-end, to tell the user that we support CodeChef links.

Files to be modified

• caucus-server/src/utils/scrapeQuestion.ts
• caucus/src/component/QuestionsPane/ProblemList/ProblemList.tsx

[ujju20]

Can I work on this issue?

[Rishabh-malhotraa]

Can I work on this issue?

Go ahead, if you need any help hmu on discord.

[ujju20]

Can I work on this issue?

Go ahead, if you need any help hmu on discord.

Sure

[starkkumarkk1611]

Hi, @Rishabh-malhotraa CodeChef API is restricted. It means I have to do it with Pure Web scraping. I would Like to do it with npm package jsdom.

[Rishabh-malhotraa]

Hi, @Rishabh-malhotraa CodeChef API is restricted. It means I have to do it with Pure Web scraping. I would Like to do it with npm package jsdom.

Yes, @starkkumarkk1611 CodeChef does not have a public API that gives us access to question, we need to make a get request to the problem page, parse the HTML and select only those div which encloses the questions.

You can look at how its implemented here in caucus-server.

We use cheerio.js for parsing and traversing the dom elements

[starkkumarkk1611]

Thanks I will give my to implement this feature

[Rishabh-malhotraa]

@starkkumarkk1611 If you haven't started coding this, maybe take a similar issue #52, which adds the feature to load cses problems instead of this one as @ujju20 is also working on this.

[starkkumarkk1611]

@starkkumarkk1611 If you haven't started coding this, maybe take a similar issue #52, which adds the feature to load cses problems instead of this one as @ujju20 is also working on this.

thanks I will work on issue #52,