bearBuy_order_processing

Web scraper for BearBuy orders at UCSF

Prerequisites

• Needs Python 3, pip

Quick how to set up

• Download bearbuy_scrape.py - put it in its own folder

• Make a virtual environment for this script.

python3 -m venv ./../bearBuy_env

source ../bearBuy_env/bin/activate

• Download requirements.txt

• Run pip install -r requirements.txt

• When you load a requisition, save the Summary page as an HTML file in the same dir as bearbuy_scrape.py

• Run python bearbuy_scrape.py

• Copy and paste allRequisitions.tsv into your favorite spreadsheet

How to save and parse a bearBuy Requisition:

On BearBuy:

1. Documents>Search Documents>My Requisitions
2. Click on the requisition no. link
3. On the Summary tab page, Hit Ctrl-S, save webpage as HTML in same dir as bearbuy_scrape.py
4. Run python bearbuy_scrape.py
5. Output should have populated a allRequisitions.tsv file