Posted by huskerfan26 on 2/14/2017 8:24:00 PM (view original):
Thanks. I have used Octave before but it was a while ago when i took a machine learning class. I do not remember much about the class or Octave. I have wanted to do more stats and visualization stuff but my method of getting the data sucks, copy and paste. I need to figure out a way to use a web crawler or something. Wonder how yatzr does it.
Python is wonderful, well at least the bit i explored. I used their Django app to have some fun creating web apps and stuff. Created some pretty cool web pages in my opinion. Now i need to explore more of what Python has to offer.
My java app uses an http library that basically acts like a web browser. I tell it where to go, I have it inspect the html, fill out forms, hit buttons, etc. You can certainly do all the same stuff in python. I think this is the library you'd want to use
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/
The hardest part will probably be figuring out how to get past the login screen and then holding onto / forwarding the session token (or whatever it is) that the WIS website uses.