{"id":10346,"date":"2013-06-06T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10346"},"modified":"2013-06-08T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T20:37:46","slug":"hacking-into-the-indian-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10346","title":{"rendered":"Hacking into the Indian Education System"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Technically put, I merely needed to write a script to iterate through the various school IDs, check the different servers, and start with a student ID of 1 yet have a way to detect when there were no more students for a given school. I had to retrieve the resultant html files and parse them to extract all the useful information &#8211; Name, Date of Birth, ID, School, Marks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/deedy.quora.com\/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System\">Hacking into the Indian Education System &#8211; On the Stepping Stone &#8211; Quora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"__w2_FPt1631_toggle_link\"><span id=\"ld_ADqt3f_47011\"><span class=\"inline_editor_value\">Several hours later, I had <i>all<\/i> the ISC and ICSE results on my very own computer, in a bunch of comma-separated value files. It was truly incredible. 26 megabytes of pure, magnificent data. An Excel file I couldn&#8217;t scroll to the bottom of. Just for kicks, I Ctrl+F&#8217;d a few names I knew and what do you know? There they were. Line after line of names, subjects and numbers. It was truly mesmerizing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically put, I merely needed to write a script to iterate through the various school IDs, check the different servers, and start with a student ID of 1 yet have a way to detect when there were no more students &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[532,553,102,180],"class_list":["post-10346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-analytics","tag-data-mining","tag-hacking","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10369,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}