Trailhead Badges Scraper

Description

This Java application has been created to get the data in Trailhead.com from every badge to be stored in a NoSQL database.

Configuration

• application.properties with the next parameters: uri (to connect to the database host), database (name), collection (name), and test (a test value for JUnit).
• ChromeDriver installed.

Badges

Trailhead.com has three different types of badges:

• Modules
• Projects
• Superbadges

The data stored from these badges is the next one:

• Type: Represents if the badge is a Module, Project or Superbadge.
• Name: Contains the name of the badge.
• Href: Represents the URL of the badge inside Trailhead.com
• Hours: The estimated duration of every badge.

Note: Superbadges has a minimum and maximum estimated duration.

Sample Data

Modules

{
    "type": "Module",
    "name": "API Basics",
    "href": "https://trailhead.salesforce.com/modules/api_basics",
    "hours": 2.00
}

Projects

{
    "type": "Project",
    "name": "Build Flexible Apps with Visualforce Pages and Lightning Components",
    "href": "https://trailhead.salesforce.com/projects/workshop-lightning-programmatic",
    "hours": 1.83
}

Superbadges

{
    "type": "Superbadge",
    "name": "Advanced Apex Specialist",
    "href": "https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/superbadges/superbadge_aap",
    "hours": {
        "min": 12.00,
        "max": 16.00
    }
}