HackerRank-PlagiarismChecker

Overview

This project scrapes data from the HackerRank dashboard to track student attempts and stores the results in a MySQL database. It uses Python with Selenium for web scraping and SQL for data storage.

Tech Stack

• Backend Framework: FastAPI
• Web Scraping: Selenium
• Database: MySQL
• ORM: SQLAlchemy
• Python Libraries:
  • uvicorn for ASGI server
  • pymysql for MySQL connection

Prerequisites

1. Install Dependencies: Ensure you have Python and pip installed. Then install the required Python packages.

   pip install fastapi uvicorn selenium sqlalchemy pymysql

2. Setup MySQL: Install and configure MySQL on your local machine.

Configuration

HackerRank Inputs

• Admin Username: Your HackerRank admin username.
• Admin Password: Your HackerRank admin password.
• Student Username: The username of the student whose data you want to fetch.
• Contest Name: The name of the contest to scrape.

MySQL Configuration

• Username: Your MySQL username.
• Password: Your MySQL password.
• Database: The name of your MySQL database.
• Host: The host where MySQL is running (default is localhost).