powerschool webscraper?

[Matt Minuti]

I found myself wanting a similar scraper a couple years ago for looking for
job postings hidden behind similar javascript silliness that took forever
to manually check. Never got around to it, though.

"Selenium" looks to be a possible alternative to htmlunit, might be easier
to use?

I'm still interested in what you come up with :)

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> The Milford school district uses this "PowerSchool" web thing so parents
> can check on kids' grades (middle school and up). It's pretty useful,
> for those teachers that update at a reasonable frequency.
>
> However, there's no change detection. I guess I have to have memorized
> all the grades, outstanding assignments, etc for each child so I can see
> what's different when I check the next time. "Huh...it's 90% now. Was it
> 91% yesterday? Maybe I should click through and see if he flunked
> something."
>
> I figured I'd do a simple little script that would download the page and
> just do a diff. Not so fast--it's hidden behind javascript.
>
> I know this would be trivial for someone who has done this. Heck, it
> would probably be trivial for me if I didn't have 100 other projects
> going and I had time to learn the tools (looks like "htmlunit" in this
> case). However, it suddenly occurred to me that someone may have
> *already* done this, maybe even for Milford's particular installation.
>
> So...have you?
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