Moodle Scraper

• A Website that shows new assignments without having to authenticate
• Uses Web notifications to notify you of new assignments & changes to existing assignments
• It also scrapes and stores course files (pdf/ppts). However, these require authentication (at cloudflare level) to view

Screenshots

Self Hosting

• Clone the repository
• Install dependencies and setup the database using pnpm run init
• Create an .env file in the root directory (refer to .env.example)
• Run the server using pnpm run prod

Self Hosting options

• Your own computer (if you have a static IP & if it is on 24/7)
• A small VPS / Dedicated server (OVH, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, etc.)
• Free tiers of cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, etc.)
• Hop
• Fly.io
• Cyclic
• Railway (free tier lasts for about 20 days a month)

Note

• This uses Next.js to serve the website and has backend code to sync the assignments
• With a few modifications, it is possible to statically deploy the frontend part and host just the backend part on a server