hackathon-scraper

A script that scrapes devpost for a list of hackathons and puts them in a nice JSON

Dependencies

• python3
• mechanicalsoup
• flask

Resolving the dependencies:

python3 : I'm not gonna tell you how to do this, you should know

You may need to run these commands as root (you almost certainly need to.)

mechanical soup : $ pip install mechanicalsoup

flask : $ pip install flask

How to use it

put scraper.py into the folder with your other code and import it

OR run app.sh and then go to 127.0.0.1:5000/api and it'll be some nice JSON data for you.