CEQROBOT

Scraper and website generator for LTH course evaluations.

BUILDING

I suggest you use stack (haskellstack.org) to avoid at least some of the hell
that is Haskell package management.

Ceqrobot uses a Postgres database, which must be available EVEN WHEN COMPILING.
This is because the compiler connects to the database to determine the
input/output types of SQL statements so that they can be typechecked. Assuming
you have a local Postgres database 'ceqrobot' with user 'ceqrobot' and no
password, it should be sufficient to source /env.source to make this work.

The database schema should be initialised from schema.sql, for instance by
running psql ceqrobot <schema.sql.

RUNNING

The progam ./scraper is used to download the course plans and course
evaluations from the web. Run ./scraper -i to queue up the index page, which
will lead to all necessary pages being scraped. The queue persist between
scraper invocations, so it is safe to kill the scraper and then restart it
later. New scrapes will automatically overwrite any old duplicates with the
same URL.

The scraper will terminate when there is nothing left to scrape. Then you can
run mkdir Web/dist; ./exportjson >Web/dist/db.js to prepare a JSON file for the
webpage.

The final step is to cd to Web/; run npm install and then run ./webpack.