Mason Virgina Transfers

Inspiration

We saw that there is no easy way to find out about transferable credits for all universities in one place.

What it does

We made this tool to make it easy for students to search up if the courses they are currently taking can be transferred to other universities across Virginia

How we built it

We used the frameworks of Astro with Svelte for the front-end, all the data is located in a folder with json files. We used Puppeteer for our web-scrapping method (we did that separately). We are also using bun instead of nodejs and npm

Challenges we ran into

Having to gather all the data for later use (going to each website and scrapping the courses)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to create the scrapper for the GMU courses site.

What we learned

How to do proper web-scrapping with puppeteer

What's next for Mason Virgina Transfers

We will all more schools to the database as well as creating a proper and more sophisticated backed database (with SQL).

Built With

• astro
• bun
• svelte
• typescript