powerschool webscraper?

[Tom Buskey]

Elinks?  It has some javascript support that calls Mozilla's engine.  It
has a text interface.  I've used lynx -dump in the past, but that doesn't
have java script.

I've seen OpenOffice automated.  A kluge would be to fire up selenium,
print/save to PDF, compare PDFs.  FWIW I have a postscript differ.

Powerschool also has an API and there are tools that hook into it.  For
example: https://github.com/powerapi/powerapi-php

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
> > I had this problem with htmlunit too. It wanted to fire up a browser
> > GUI. No, bad tool!
> >
> > Probably there are no GUI-less, javascript-capable, scriptable tools out
> > there. There's probably some way to cobble one together now that guile
> > supports javascript, but like I said: time.
>
> It's also making me depressed how terrible the internet has
> become. We've made a thing to run on computer that computers themselves
> can't use. Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like "check if
> posted grades have changed" require a human being to spend valuable time
> poking buttons (or programming a very faithful simulation thereof)?
>
> We used to be a tool-making species. Then a tool-using species. Now
> we're a tool-used species.
>
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