sololearnlib 3.0.0

Retrieve public data from 'sololearn.com'.

sololearnlib

sololearnlib is a library for retrieving public data from Sololearn.

• Easy to use.

• Lightweight.

• Object Oriented.

• Json-compatible data.

Features

• Retrieve Blog articles.

• Get Leaderboard data.

• Retrieve 'Hot Today' codes from Code Playground.

• Find out what are the trending, most recent and most popular codes.

• Get courses info and lessons data.

• Retrieve 'Hot Today' discussions.

• Find out what are the trending, most recent and unanswered discussions.

Tech

sololearnlib just uses bs4 (BeautifulSoup4).

Installation

sololearnlib requires Python 3 v3.5+ to run.

$ pip install sololearnlib

Usage

Retrieve Blog data

• Import

from sololearnlib.sololearn import Blog

• Create a class object.

blog = Blog()

• After creating an object you can use some of its attributes.

print(blog.domain)
# "https://www.sololearn.com"

• Using methods/functions

articles = blog.get_articles()
# [{'article_link': '/Blog/73/habit-formi...-learning/', 'content': ' \xa0For most of us, th...ss time.\xa0 ', 'date': '07 August 2020', 'image_link': 'https://api.sololear...ning_1.jpg', 'title': 'Habit-Forming Learni...d Learning'}, ...]

# Get the link of first article.
article_link = articles[0]["article_link"]
# '/Blog/73/habit-forming-learning-vs-forced-learning/'

full_text = blog.get_full_article(article_link)
# '\n\nDo you struggle when learning new things? Most people do -- even when receiving a formal education in school or attending college, it can be hard to make new concepts stick. ...'

Retrieve Code Playground Data

• Import

from sololearnlib.sololearn import CodePlayground

• Create a class object.

ground = CodePlayground()

• After creating an object you can use some of its attributes.

print(ground.hot_today)
# [{'Web Dev Quiz': 'https://code.sololea...zpmPj7kP/#'}, ...]

• Using methods/functions

codes = ground.get_codes()
# [{'author_link': '/Profile/12942084', 'author_name': 'Aakaanksha 💕', 'code_link': 'https://code.sololea...oj07HPmq/#', 'code_name': 'Google Clone or Real? 😳💕', 'data_date': '8/9/2020 7:36:06 AM', 'votes': 1146},  ...]

Retrieve Courses Data

• Import

from sololearnlib.sololearn import Courses

• Create a class object.

courses = Courses()

• After creating an object you can use some of its attributes.

print(courses.courses)
# {'c': {'counts': {...}, 'description': '\nOur C tutorial cove...uch more.\n', 'icon': '/Icons/Courses/1089.png', 'link': '/Course/C/', 'title': 'C Tutorial'}, ...}

• Using methods/functions

lessons = courses.get_lessons("python")
# {'Basic Concepts': ['Welcome to Python', 'Your First Program', 'Simple Operations', 'Floats', 'Other Numerical Operations', 'Strings', 'String Operations', 'Variables', 'Taking User Input', ...], ...}

Retrieve Discuss Data

• Import

from sololearnlib.sololearn import Discuss

• Create a class object.

dis = Discuss()

• After creating an object you can use some of its attributes.

print(dis.hot_today)
# [{'[SOLVED]C++ Challenge problem': '/Discuss/2437254/sol...e-problem/'}, {'[Solved] Does Earnin...ves us XP?': '/Discuss/2437589/sol...ves-us-xp/'}, ...]

• Using methods/functions

posts = dis.get_posts()
# [{'answers': '24716', 'author_link': '/Profile/5056131/', 'author_name': 'benka', 'avatar_link': 'https://avatars.solo...b873e5.jpg', 'data_date': '7/6/2017 5:02:16 PM', 'post_link': '/Discuss/516185/мног...оговорящих', 'tags': [...], 'title': 'много ли тут нас, ру...говорящих?', 'votes': '1199'}, ...]

Retrieve Top Learners Data

• Import

from sololearnlib.sololearn import TopLearners

• Create a class object.

top = TopLearners()

• After creating an object you can use some of its attributes.

print(top.courses)
# {'c': {'link': '/Leaderboard/C', 'title': 'C Tutorial'}, ...}

print(top.leaderboard)
# {'1': {'name': 'JΞΜΔ 🇨🇩👑', 'points': 1070064}, ...}

print(top.leaderboard_title)
# 'Global Leaderboard'

• Using methods/functions

board = top.get_leaderboard("python")
# {'1': {'name': '👑 Prometheus 🇸🇬', 'points': 193985}, ...}

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

Head toward the github repository:

• sololearnlib

Todos

• Write MORE Tests.

• Add error handling.

• Make retrieval time faster.

License

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MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!