Content Comparison

API Tools

• Getting data: more complex than the actual process

• UTD websites → Scraping → Parsing → Uploading

  • Scraping just pulls and stores all data in a readable format

    • Dumps in local storage

  • Parsing formats data correctly

  • Uploading to database (MongoDB)

• All steps are separate and can be tweaked and run without rerunning the other steps

Actual API

• Hosted on Google Cloud

• Reads data from MongoDB and sends it to users

Overall

• The main focus is on the API tools, not the actual API

  • Distributing the data is easy, but getting is hard

• Main users are the Nebula projects, which guide the API

Succession

• Josh is graduating at the end of the semester

  • All other election spots are open as well

• If you’re at all interest now or in the future, reach out