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Amity OpAlert


A useful software for students who are looking for opportunities

During my job placements season, I observed that the students had to open the opportunities portal of our university every day, to manually check and see if a new opportunity has come up. To avoid this nuisance, I created a full stack web application to automatically notify fellow students about job opportunities at campus as soon as it comes up on the portal. It had acquired over 50 subscribed users before my free cloud storage credits got expired.

This project no longer serves the users because of limited availability of funds.

However, you can still use the webapp and interact with it. It's live at https://amity-opalert.herokuapp.com !



About the Project

  • I extracted data from campus portal by using web scraping framework beautiful soup
  • I used MySQL first to store details of subscribers, opportunities and notifications sent. Well, it was only later I realized that MongoDB would be more preferable. So I migrated the database from MySQL to MongoDB.
  • Then I deployed the Flask application on Google App Engine cloud platform
  • Used languages like Python, JavaScript, HTML5
  • Demo