Inspiration
I struggled and was unable to find/get any work experience to put on my university application. Especially in the uk there are a very limited number of sites and opportunities that appear online with each one having hundreds to thousands of applicants. I had some problems with finding work experience and opportunities after the deadline was already over. This is mainly due to Eg. I couldn't just look up "work experience for 16 yr olds uk" - it had to be thorugh specific sites which were hard to find.
What it does
3 custom Web scrapers search 3 chosen sites each scraper is specific to a site. The scrapers find information such as title, sector, deadline, description and more for each opportunity and stores each opportunity in a database. The opportunities are then displayed in a streamlit ui which has a table with a row for each opportunity. The opportunities can then be sorted.
How we built it
Used vs code editor along with ai tools such as coderabbit and github copilot. Version control with git and github.
Challenges we ran into
The web crawlers do not function as intended and are collecting the wrong info. Unfortunately I was not able to fix this, but I had a fun time in the process and wanted to submit something.
What I learned/are proud of
I had little experience before this so it was great to learn some technical skills such as version control with git and github. As well as gaining experience on how I can utilise AI code tools for the first time such as coderabbit, github copilot and codeiumai. The project may be unfinished or limited in some area but i'm glad I got to go through the experimentation process.
