Events scraper

[qasim]

https://www.events.utoronto.ca/

[qasim]

Proposed schema:

{
  "id": String,
  "title": String,
  "date": {
    "start": String,
    "end": String,
  },
  "url": String,
  "description": String,
  "campus": String,
  "address": String,
  "audience": [String]
}

[g3wanghc]

@qasim I'm down to work it. :V

[qasim]

@g3wanghc Awesome. Here's a little tweaked schema that I had in mind, keeping with conventions from other scrapers:

{
  "id": String,
  "title": String,
  "date": String,
  "start_time": String,
  "end_time": String
  "url": String,
  "description": String,
  "campus": String,
  "address": String,
  "audience": [String]
}

date would be ISO 8601 format like 2016-04-15.
start_time and end_time would also be ISO 8601 like 2016-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 (standardized for eastern timezone).
url would just be the URL of the event posting, i.e. https://www.events.utoronto.ca/index.php?action=singleView&eventid=12052.

My thinking is each scraper run should go through all the pages of events (so every event currently listed) and then open each link inside to grab the more detailed information to complete the schema.

Let me know what you think!

[g3wanghc]

Sure, looks like fun. 👍

[g3wanghc]

@qasim Do we care about Admission Price, Contact Info, Website and Event Sponsor?