#TOPCODER CHALLENGE DETAILS FOR ANALYTICS
The purpose of the code base is to create a little utility that will allow developers to query full details of challenges to help build analytical sets.
chmod +x challengeScrapernpm i
5 parameters: rate limit in seconds, actual endpoint, output file, starting offset (optional), ending offset (optional).
- if either of starting offset or ending offset is not present, then starting offset and ending offset are set equal.
- If neither of them is present, starting offset and ending offset are set to 0.
- If the challenge url already contains offset as parameter, it is removed.
Sample usage without starting offset and ending offset -
challengeScraper 5 "https://api.topcoder.com/v3/challenges/?limit=2" output.txt
Sample Usage with only starting offset (Note: offset from endpoint is removed) -
challengeScraper 5 "https://api.topcoder.com/v3/challenges/?limit=2&offset=0" output.txt 2
Sample Usage with both starting and ending offset -
challengeScraper 5 "https://api.topcoder.com/v3/challenges/?limit=10&offset=0" output.txt 0 2