https://github.com/nickolasrm/moodlestudentdatascraper

A scraper that extracts student data from moodle!
https://github.com/nickolasrm/moodlestudentdatascraper

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A scraper that extracts student data from moodle!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nickolasrm/moodlestudentdatascraper
• Owner: nickolasrm
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-08-27T03:31:11.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-28T21:48:12.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-28T04:23:47.336Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 4.99 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Moodle Student Data Scraper

The purpose of this software is to extract participants data from Moodle and save it on a table file.

_**Note:** Only tested in Moodle 3.7 using Boost Theme_  

_**Note 2:** This application may not work in all Moodles. In reason of that, you are free to modify it to attend your purposes_  

_**Note 3:** Scraper is configured to read 'data.cfg' as a file using UTF-8 table._

**Scraped Data**

1. Participants name

2. Participants email

3. Participants access frequency per day

4. Participants assignments grade

5. Participants assignments finishing date

**What you need**

* Python3

* Selenium

   * You can download it by using `pip3 install selenium`

* Chrome

* Right chromedriver for your chrome version:

   * You can download chromedriver here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads 

   * You can check your chrome version by typing the following 'url' on your chrome: `chrome://version`

   * Put it inside project's main directory

**How to use it**

1. Clone this repository by using: `git clone https://github.com/nickolasrm/moodle-student-data-scraper`

2. Open the file data.cfg on a text editor of your preference

3. Put required data

   * Username: `username = your_moodle_username`

   * Password: `password = your_moodle_password`

   * Course: `course = My Course Name`

   * URL: `url = http://your_moodle.com`

   * chromedriver: `chromedriver = ./chromedriver_file`

   * Roles Filter: `participantsFilter = roles_combobox_option_text`

4. (Optional) Select data you want to extract by putting `yes` or `no` on the options under targets section in `data.cfg` file.

5. Save it

6. In project's main folder, run the following command `python3 start.py`

7. The scraped data is saved on a file named `__outputStudentData.csv`, you can open it on any sheet reader using:  you want (e.g., LibreOffice Calc).