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Package school_scraper
Short Description This package scrapes all Tanzania's schools from Necta's website.
License MIT
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school-scrapper
A package to scrape Tanzania schools
Usage
Add the package from the composer by running composer require megamindame/school_scraper
If you want to get school data by using this package, not use it in your code, you can uncomment the code section you want in the App.php file,
Using the Package
3 types of data can be accessed from 3 education levels. Education levels 1) Primary 2) Secondary 3)Advanced Secondary
Data that can be accessed
1) schools - An array of formatted school data 2) nodes - XPath nodelist of all the html link tags. You can iterate through the list to scrape the results page of a school. Check the Xpath documentation to see how you can use the Xpath node. 3) data - An array of un-formatted school data
Accessing the data
You can initialize any of the fetchers and pass the year you want to fetch. Images are embedded to show the returned data format.
1) Primary
$fetcher = new PrimaryFetcher(2022);
//Get Primary schools
return $fetcher->getSchools();//Get Data
return $fetcher->getPrimaryData();//Get Nodes
return $fetcher->getNodes();2) Secondary and Advanced Secondary
$fetcher = new SecondaryFetcher(2022);
//or
$fetcher = new AdvancedSecondaryFetcher(2022);
//Get Primary schools
return $fetcher->getSchools();//Get Data
return $fetcher->getData();//Get Nodes
return $fetcher->getNodes();People who want to fetch results from the nodes can use the Fetcher->getRootUrl() method to get the Root Url. You can take a look at the code to see how the nodes can be used to fetch their corresponding web pages, in this case, school results pages
As stated above, if you want to use the package as a standalone, then you can just download the code, run composer install then check the
'App.php' file for some directions on how to fetch data. Try to uncomment the sections inside the file, then run
php index.php. You can try to run php index.php > filename to save the echoed data into a
file.
