I think that Robert's suggestion to move towards a more general page scraping mechanism is very prudent. Robert has gone ahead and ensured that the scraper looks at links specifically to scrape events and their titles. Robert's implementation also calls the location scraper on all elements on a particular event's page and I have ensured that my location parsing algorithm works for the vast majority of strings where a building and room number are present.
I think that we have strong bases covered to scrape Title and Location from the website even if it should change. This leaves the Start and End Times, as well as the Descriptions.
Today I discovered that in all of the event pages, there is a particular element under the tag Githubissues.
Githubissues is a development platform for aggregating issues.
I think that Robert's suggestion to move towards a more general page scraping mechanism is very prudent. Robert has gone ahead and ensured that the scraper looks at links specifically to scrape events and their titles. Robert's implementation also calls the location scraper on all elements on a particular event's page and I have ensured that my location parsing algorithm works for the vast majority of strings where a building and room number are present.
I think that we have strong bases covered to scrape Title and Location from the website even if it should change. This leaves the Start and End Times, as well as the Descriptions.
Today I discovered that in all of the event pages, there is a particular element under the tag Githubissues.