MapleGuide

A Canadian immigration news aggregator that collects official announcements from federal and provincial sources, generates Korean-language summaries, and renders them as a map-based web dashboard.

Overview

MapleGuide scrapes immigration updates from Express Entry, Ontario, BC, Manitoba, PEI, New Brunswick, and more — then normalizes the data into a JSON feed and builds static HTML pages per region.

Tech Stack

• Runtime: Node.js
• Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS
• Testing: Fixture-based test suite
• Output: Static HTML + JSON feed

Key Features

• Multi-source scraper (label pages, article pages, draw/invite tables)
• Rule-based Korean summary generation
• Map-centered landing page with province drill-downs
• Browser session state (save/load/reset user inputs)
• out/feed.json — normalized immigration event feed
• out/dashboard.html — aggregated dashboard view

Run Locally

npm install
npm test       # Run fixture-based tests
npm run demo   # Generate output files
npm run dev    # Local web server

Target Users

Korean immigrants and prospective immigrants to Canada who need immigration news in Korean.