uni-scraper allows data from El Mundo's ranking to be scraped and translated into a JSON file, making it easier to work with it. For example for your own data visualizations such as D3 or Chartjs.
Run it from the command line typing python scraper.py or use your IDE of choice. A file named university_rankings.json should be created in your working directory.
El Mundo's ranking is a yearly publication about spanish universities. Each degree is evaluated among these institutions and the best five are listed in order. ùni-scraper assigns points to each university according to the position in that ranking:
- 1st gets 5 points
- 2nd gets 4 points
- 3rd gets 3 points
- 4th gets 2 points
- 5th gets 1 point
This conversion is made using rank_to_points function, which is probably not the best solution:
def rank_to_points(rank):
if rank == '1º':
points = 5
elif rank == '2º':
points = 4
elif rank == '3º':
points = 3
elif rank == '4º':
points = 2
elif rank == '5º':
points = 1
return pointsPoints are summed for each university and that represents its score. Each university is stored in a dictionary uni_data with its name as key and score as value.