2017 Reinvent schedule data extractor

This is meant to turn the data available through https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/interests.ww into a table of data for figuring out what you actually want to request reserved seats for.

The results are delimited by a "|" are easily imported into excel or similar.

The Data

Because I built this quickly and because of the way the webpage is built, you need to load the page in a browser, click every one of the "Scheduling Options" links, which will add load the location data into the page, and then save it via the dev tools. In chrome:

• "inspect" the page
• choose the "elements" tab
• right click on the tag at the top
• copy -> "copy outerHTML"
• save the clipboard contents to a file (the default is a file called AWS re_Invent 2017.htm in the same directory as this script, but you can pass it as the 1st argument per below)

Running

python buildtable.py <path_to_filename>

the output is sent to stdout, so this can of course be redirected to a file ( > /path/to/outputfile)

Packages to install

• python 3
• beautifulsoup4

Testing

python tests/tests.py