Write a script for scraping Mumbai University cutoffs

[Sohammhatre10]

Requirements are -

1. A selenium bot for scraping Mumbai University's 2024 cutoff data and automation for logging
2. Ease of use and clean code, add a doc string for everything

[gaurav-rm11]

assign me

[Sohammhatre10]

Will be assigning you this one first as I need a sequence for tracking the progression

[gaurav-rm11]

i had a doubt. for admissions in maharashtra, there is no web page for cutoffs to scrape from. CET CELL provide pdf documents for it. so for that maybe using NLP would be a better option i guess.

[Sohammhatre10]

You'll have to use pytessaract or llm parsers for scrapping through the pdfs. @gaurav-rm11

[Sohammhatre10]

@gaurav-rm11 any progress here?

[gaurav-rm11]

ive used pdfplumber to extract data from the pdf. but i it works on downloaded pdf and generate a csv file. will that do? then ill raise a PR.

[Sohammhatre10]

Sounds good to me just wanted that data from the huge round pdf to be on the database. Raise a PR after that I'll check for any issues and inform you about them. Thanks for the update tho!

[Sohammhatre10]

@gaurav-rm11 you may use external web sources like Shiksha too for the same.
The csv files must have the columns
College, Branch, Quota, Category, Gender, OpenRank, CloseRank

Example for the IITmain.csv file
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, "Civil Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology)", AI ,OPEN, Gender-Neutral, 9106, 14782

[Sohammhatre10]

@gaurav-rm11 any updates?