[Data] Scrape list of these events

[titipata]

The event is available at https://web.sas.upenn.edu/mindcore/events/. Not sure if there is an easy to download format for the page or not.

[titipata]

• MindCORE events: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/mindcore/events/
• Leonard Davis Institute: https://ldi.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Museum https://www.penn.museum/calendar

[bluenex]

For MindCORE, there is a link to download all events as iCal format. Shall we try parsing with this https://pypi.org/project/icalendar/?

[titipata]

@bluenex yes, using icalendar should be proper. Also, we're actually hiring people to find all sources of events now. I will forward you an email later this week.

[Tanvvenk]

• Penn Today https://penntoday.upenn.edu/events
• SAS Upenn Events https://www.sas.upenn.edu/events/upcoming-events
• Human Resources Dept. Upenn https://www.hr.upenn.edu/about-hr/events-calendar ... need login, not public
• Wharton Lecture Series https://events.wharton.upenn.edu/ ... format
• Physics & Astronomy Department https://www.physics.upenn.edu/events/
• Institute of Contemporary Art Upenn http://icaphila.org/events/
• The Kelly Writers House http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1018.php
• Wolf Humanities Center Upenn http://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/color
• Penn Museum https://www.penn.museum/calendar
• Penn Department of Music https://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/performance/performance-calendar
• The Rotunda Events http://www.therotunda.org/events
• World Cafe Live https://www.worldcafelive.com/
• Communications Within the Curriculum https://www.sas.upenn.edu/cwic/workshops.html
• Netter Center Events https://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/get-involved/upcoming-events
• Upenn Center for Public Health Initiatives Seminars http://www.cphi.upenn.edu/Seminars/
• Penn Med Office of Inclusion and Diversity Events https://www.med.upenn.edu/inclusion-and-diversity/Upcoming-Events/ .... pagesoup does not give href (issue)
• Campus Health Workshop Events Upenn https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/shs/campushealth/workshops.php
• Penn Department of English Events https://www.english.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Department of Classical Studies https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Department of Philosophy https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Department of Criminology Events https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Department of Biology http://www.bio.upenn.edu/events/
• Penn Department of Economics Events https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events
• Penn Department of Mathematics Events https://www.math.upenn.edu/events/
• Perelman School of Medicine Events https://events.med.upenn.edu/
• Penn Department of Linguistics https://www.ling.upenn.edu/events/
• Penn Department of Earth and Environmental Science Events https://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/events
• Penn Department of Anthropology Events https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/events
• Undergraduate Penn Department of Biology https://www.bio.upenn.edu/undergraduate/events
• Penn Department of Chemistry Events https://www.chem.upenn.edu/events-list
• Penn Department of Sociology Events https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events
• Annenberg School for Communication https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events
• Penn Department of Religious Studies Events https://www.sas.upenn.edu/religious_studies/news
• Penn Graduate School of Education Events https://www.gse.upenn.edu/event
• Penn Department of History of Art https://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/events
• Penn Medicine Events https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/events
• Wharton MBA Program Events https://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
• Penn Engineering Calendar https://provider.www.upenn.edu/calendar/?school=4&view=longmonth&page=1... require login
• Upenn Bioengineering Department Calendar https://provider.www.upenn.edu/calendar/?page=1&view=longmonth&school=4... require login
• Material Science and Engineering Events https://mse.seas.upenn.edu/events/... require login
• Bioengineering Seminars http://www.be.seas.upenn.edu/about-be/events/index.php... require login
• CIS Engineering Events http://www.cis.upenn.edu/about-cis/events/index.php
• MEAM Engineering Seminars http://www.me.upenn.edu/about-meam/events/seminar-series.php... require login
• CBE Engineering Events https://provider.www.upenn.edu/calendar/?page=1&view=longmonth&school=4... require login
• Penn Nursing Events https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/#view/all
• [ ]Student Nursing Events https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/snap/events/

10/26/18

• Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute (AFCRI) https://events.med.upenn.edu/afcri/#!view/all
• ESE Events: https://provider.www.upenn.edu/calendar/?page=1&view=longmonth&school=
• ESE Colloquia & Events: http://www.ese.upenn.edu/about-ese/events/index.ph
• ~~Penn Design Events + Exhibitions… format does not fit: https://www.design.upenn.edu/events-exhibition ~~
• Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/event
• Penn AHEAD (Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy): http://www.ahead-penn.org/events
• Wharton Alternative Investments Initiative: https://altinvest.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
• Annenberg Public Policy Center Speaker Series: https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/events/appc-speaker-series/ .... only description of speakers, not an actual event
• Annenberg Public Policy Cener Martin Fishbein Memorial Seminar Series: https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/events/martin-fishbein-memorial-seminar-series/ .... only description of speakers, not an actual event
• Annenberg Public Policy Center Peter Hart’s Vocies of the Voters: https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/events/peter-harts-voices-of-the-voters/ .
• Campbell Collaboration Events: https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/news-and-events/events/campbell-events.html
• Campbell Collaboration External Events: https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/news-and-events/events/external-events.html
• Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research: https://zicklincenter.wharton.upenn.edu/upcoming-events/
• Perelman School of Medicine Cell and Developmental Biology: - https://cdb.med.upenn.edu/events/action~agenda/request_format~html/
• Center for the Advanced Study of India: https://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/events
• Center for Africana Studies: https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/center/events
• PennVet REsearch Events: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/research/news-events-conferences/research-events-calendar
• PennVet Parasitology Seminar Series: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/research/news-events-conferences/parasitology-seminar-series
• Center for Asian Law: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cal/events.php
• Upenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy: http://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events
• Center for Brain Injury and Repair (CBIR): https://events.med.upenn.edu/cbir/#!view/all
• Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics: https://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu/events
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience: http://ccn.upenn.edu/home/news/index.shtml
• Perelman School of Medicine Psychiatry Department: https://events.med.upenn.edu/psychiatry/#!view/all
• Perelman School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Graduate Rounds: - https://www.med.upenn.edu/psychiatry/rounds.html
• Center for East Asian Studies: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events
• Center for Engineering MechanoBiology: https://cemb.upenn.edu/items/calendar/
• Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/events.php
• Center for functional Neuroimaging : https://cfn.upenn.edu/events.php
• Center for healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety: https://www.med.upenn.edu/chips/events.html
• Center for High Impact Philanthropy: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/events/
• Center for Human Resources: https://chr.wharton.upenn.edu/upcoming-events/
• Upenn Italian Studies: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/center/events
• Center for Magnetic Resonance & Optical Imaging: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cmroi/seminars.html
• Penn Social Policy & Practice: https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/sp2-events/list/
• Perelman School of Medicine: https://events.med.upenn.edu/gastro/#!view/all
• Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (format): https://www.med.upenn.edu/cndr/relatedevents.html
• Center for Neuroscience & Society: https://neuroethics.upenn.edu/events/... pagesoup does not produce href
• Center for Particle Cosmology (format): http://www.physics.upenn.edu/particlecosmo/events/
• Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health: https://www.med.upenn.edu/crrwh/events.html
• Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology: https://www.med.upenn.edu/sleepctr/events.html
• Center for Tax Law and Policy: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/taxlaw/seminar-series.php
• Center for Teaching & Learning: https://www.ctl.upenn.edu/events
• [ ]~~ Center for TEchnology, Innovation and Competition: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/ctic/events.php~~
• Center for the Study of Contemporary China: https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/
• Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events
• Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/events
• Christopher H. Brown Speaker Series: https://bc.sas.upenn.edu/bcip-speaker-series
• Christopher H. Browne Brown Bag Lunches: https://bc.sas.upenn.edu/browne-bag-lunches
• Distribution Systems Laboratory (format): http://dsl.cis.upenn.edu/seminar/
• Pennergy Penn Center for Energy Innovation: http://www.energy.upenn.edu/event-calendar/2018
• Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships: http://ortnercenter.org/updates?tag=events
• Fels Institute of Government: https://www.fels.upenn.edu/events
• The Field Center for children’s Policy, Practice, or Research: https://fieldcenteratpenn.org/events/upcoming/
• Grasp lab: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events
• Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership: https://igel.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
• Institute for Biomedical Informatics: http://upibi.org/events/
• Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism (IDOM): https://events.med.upenn.edu/idom/#!view/all
• Institute for Law and Economics: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/ile/events.php
• Penn Law: https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#!view/all
• Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine: https://irm.med.upenn.edu/irm-events-activities/
• Pinkel Lectures (format): http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/pinkel/
• Institute for Translational medicine and therapeutics: http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/events.html
• Institute on Aging: https://www.med.upenn.edu/aging/events.html
• Upenn Korean Studies: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/koreanstudies/events
• Internet Policy Observatory: http://globalnetpolicy.org/news-and-events/
• The Joint Penn-CHOP Center: https://www.med.upenn.edu/jointcenterfordighealth/Events.shtml
• The Lauder Institute: https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
• Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Upenn: http://katz.sas.upenn.edu/calendar
• Kleinman Center for Energy Policy: https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/events
• The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter: https://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/calendar/
• Legal History Consortium: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/legalhistory/workshops-lectures.php
• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics: https://ldi.upenn.edu/events
• Mahoney Institute of Nuerosciences Seminar: http://go.activecalendar.com/UPennMINS/?- view=list2&search=y
• New Bolton Center Hospital: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/veterinary-hospitals/NBC-hospital/news-events

[titipata]

Thanks so much @Tanvvenk! You can keep updating the list here!

[bluenex]

Oh my, that is such a big list 😮

[titipata]

• https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events

[titipata]

@bluenex is there a way to extract calendar from this page https://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/calendar/?

[Tanvvenk]

@bluenex @titipata I tried to scrape the following website: http://go.activecalendar.com/UPennMINS/?view=list2&search=y
However, the event url is not in PageSoup. Can someone check if there is a hidden link? Thank you.

[Tanvvenk]

@bluenex @titipata I tried to scrape the following website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/legalhistory/workshops-lectures.php

However, the href for the event url is different from the actual event_url. They link to the external javascript to get to the event-page. Could someone check this? Thank you.

[titipata]

@bluenex, so they use href in the following format:

<a href="/live/events/50930-legal-history-workshop-intisar-a-rabb">Legal History Workshop: Intisar A. Rabb</a>

Then, they use Javascript to call the event in the following format: https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#!event_id/50930/view/event. I guess we can check the event ID and a way to retrieve JSON from the event ID as we did previously.

[bluenex]

@bluenex @titipata I tried to scrape the following website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/legalhistory/workshops-lectures.php

However, the href for the event url is different from the actual event_url. They link to the external javascript to get to the event-page. Could someone check this? Thank you.

@Tanvvenk so basically, you got a tag like @titipata mentioned:

<a href="/live/events/50930-legal-history-workshop-intisar-a-rabb">Legal History Workshop: Intisar A. Rabb</a>

The /live/events/50930-legal-history-workshop-intisar-a-rabb in href is used to request JSON data to fill the event page template. Because we actually need event data, it would be better if we can get JSON data directly (meaning we don't even need to scrape from the HTML).

You can use https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#!event_id/50930/view/event as a pattern to get a link to event page, but for event data you can check page's request which you will see this link:

https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/event/event_id/50930?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%20priority%3D%22high%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3ELibrary%20Hours%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3ELibrary%20Event%20Private%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3ECareers%20Calendar%20ONLY%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3EDocs%20Only%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3EPending%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3EPrivate%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3EOffcampus%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ERegistrar%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdmitted%20JD%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22placeholder%22%3ESearch%20Calendar%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22disable_timezone%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E144%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E144%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22modular%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3Eweek%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E

which is an encoded url of a bunch of XML tags:

https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/event/event_id/50930?user_tz=IT&syntax=<widget type="events_calendar" priority="high">
  <arg id="mini_cal_heat_map">true</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Library Hours</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Library Event Private</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Careers Calendar ONLY</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Docs Only Event</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Pending Event</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Private Event</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_tag">Offcampus</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_group">Registrar</arg>
  <arg id="exclude_group">Admitted JD</arg>
  <arg id="placeholder">Search Calendar</arg>
  <arg id="disable_timezone">true</arg>
  <arg id="thumb_width">144</arg>
  <arg id="thumb_height">144</arg>
  <arg id="modular">true</arg>
  <arg id="default_view">week</arg>
</widget>

So the conclusion is that we should be able to retrieve event data (any event that shares the same XML configs) from the encoded URL. In other words, you can get event data in JSON from this python snippets:

import requests

url = '''
  https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/event/event_id/50930?user_tz=IT&syntax=
  %3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%20priority%3D%22high%22%3E%3
  Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%
  22exclude_tag%22%3ELibrary%20Hours%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclud
  e_tag%22%3ELibrary%20Event%20Private%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22excl
  ude_tag%22%3ECareers%20Calendar%20ONLY%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22ex
  clude_tag%22%3EDocs%20Only%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclud
  e_tag%22%3EPending%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22
  %3EPrivate%20Event%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_tag%22%3EOffca
  mpus%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ERegistrar%3C%2Far
  g%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdmitted%20JD%3C%2Farg%3E%3Ca
  rg%20id%3D%22placeholder%22%3ESearch%20Calendar%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20i
  d%3D%22disable_timezone%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_w
  idth%22%3E144%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E144%3C%2F
  arg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22modular%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22
  default_view%22%3Eweek%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E
'''
resp = requests.get(url=url)
data = resp.json()

data
Out[5]:
{'date': 'Date',
 'title': 'March 17, 2016',
 'event': {'id': 50930,
...

Thank you very much! I will try this out @bluenex

[Tanvvenk]

@bluenex @titipata
Is information being drawn from an external or hidden link for the following: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/events

Page.soup is giving unexpected information that doesn't seem to contain event_url href

Thank you

[bluenex]

@bluenex @titipata
Is information being drawn from an external or hidden link for the following: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/events

Page.soup is giving unexpected information that doesn't seem to contain event_url href

Thank you

@Tanvvenk checking XHR of the page, it sent a request to this link:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/events-feed?_format=json

You get JSON from that right away.

[titipata]

Nice, thanks @bluenex!

Extra questions So, we have a few more URLs to scrape from Med events which I couldn't get the event id out. These include https://www.gse.upenn.edu/event, https://events.med.upenn.edu/, and https://www.med.upenn.edu/inclusion-and-diversity/Upcoming-Events/. I can get event's details using the following code but cannot use BeautifulSoup to get the event_id:

event_id = '701084'
text = """https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/event/event_id/{}?user_tz=IT&synta
x=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Fa
rg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%
2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22hide_repeats%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_groups%22%3Efa
lse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_tags%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%
3Eday%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3ECenter%20for%20Clinical%20Epidemiology%20and%20Bios
tatistics%20%28CCEB%29%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--start%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3C%21--%20if%20you%20ar
e%20changing%20the%20excluded%20groups%2C%20they%20should%20also%20be%20changed%20in%20this%20fi
le%3A%0A%09%2Fpublic_html%2Fpsom-excluded-groups.php--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdm
in%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Import%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22excl
ude_group%22%3ELiveWhale%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Department%3C%2Fa
rg%3E%3C%21--end%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22webcal_feed_links%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3
E%3C%2Fwidget%3E""".format(event_id).replace('\n', '').replace(' ', '')
event_json = requests.get(text).json()

[bluenex]

@titipata

https://www.gse.upenn.edu/event

This one is weird that it doesn't make a request at all. However, all the data for events seems to be packed in a HTML file. You should be able to get all the event data from <div class="views-row views-row-{n} views-row-odd">. Notice that {n} is the row of the event being shown. Also notice that some of the events in HTML may not be rendered on the website. I still can't figure out what makes the event to be rendered or not.

<div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd">
  <div class="views-field views-field-nothing-1">
    <span class="field-content">
      <a href="#" title="Add to Calendar" class="addthisevent">
        <img src="http://addthisevent.com/gfx/icon-calendar-t2.png" />
        <span class="_start">2018-12-10 10:30</span>
        <span class="_end">2018-12-10 10:30</span>
        <span class="_zonecode">15</span>
        <span class="_summary"
          >Penn GSE Event: Colloquium Presented by Dr. John Papay</span
        >
        <span class="_description"
          >Dr. John Papay, Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University,
          will present a colloquium titled: Where Teachers Succeed and Improve:
          The Importance of School Context for Teacher Effectiveness and
          Development.
          https://www.gse.upenn.edu/event/colloquium-presented-dr-john-papay</span
        >
        <span class="_location">3700 Walnut St, Room 203</span>
        <span class="_organizer"></span> <span class="_organizer_email"></span>
        <span class="_date_format">DD/MM/YYYY</span>
      </a>
    </span>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-nothing">
    <span class="field-content">
      <span class="event-month-date">
        <span class="date-display-single">Dec</span>
      </span>
      <span class="event-day-date">
        <span class="date-display-single">10</span>
      </span>
    </span>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-field-date-4">
    <div class="field-content">
      <span class="date-display-single">1544455800</span>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-title">
    <span class="field-content">
      <a href="/event/colloquium-presented-dr-john-papay">
        <h2>Colloquium Presented by Dr. John Papay</h2>
      </a>
    </span>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-field-date-5">
    <div class="field-content">
      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-time"></span>
      <span class="date-display-single">10:30am</span>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-field-location-1">
    <div class="field-content">
      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-map-marker"></span> 3700 Walnut St, Room
      203
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-term-node-tid">
    <span class="field-content">
      <div class="item-list">
        <ul>
          <li class="first">On Campus</li>
          <li>Students</li>
          <li>Faculty</li>
          <li>Staff</li>
          <li class="last">Lecture/Panel/Presentation</li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </span>
  </div>
  <div class="views-field views-field-field-event-short-description-1">
    <div class="field-content">
      Dr. John Papay, Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University, will
      present a colloquium titled: Where Teachers Succeed and Improve: The
      Importance of School Context for Teacher Effectiveness and Development.
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

The URL to specific event can be found on href at:

<div class="views-field views-field-title">
    <span class="field-content">
      <a href="/event/colloquium-presented-dr-john-papay">
        <h2>Colloquium Presented by Dr. John Papay</h2>
      </a>
    </span>
  </div>

Still, it doesn't make request and you will need to scrape from HTML anyway.

https://events.med.upenn.edu/

For this, I found that if we click on List it will call this url https://events.med.upenn.edu/#!view/all and then the following request is made (notice ...calendar/view/all?):

https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/all?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22hide_repeats%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_groups%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_tags%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3E%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3E%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--start%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3C%21--%20if%20you%20are%20changing%20the%20excluded%20groups%2C%20they%20should%20also%20be%20changed%20in%20this%20file%3A%0A%09%2Fpublic_html%2Fpsom-excluded-groups.php--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdmin%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Import%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ELiveWhale%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Department%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--end%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22webcal_feed_links%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E

Response from a link above is a JSON object containing 50 events out of event_count starting from today. What you may want to know are events and event_count.

https://www.med.upenn.edu/inclusion-and-diversity/Upcoming-Events/

When we open a link to an event in this page we will be brought to another page of events.med.upenn.edu that is https://events.med.upenn.edu/inclusion-and-diversity/#!view/all. This page sends a request with the same format but different value of <arg id="group"> as you can see below:

https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/all?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22hide_repeats%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_groups%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_tags%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3Eday%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3EOffice%20of%20Inclusion%20and%20Diversity%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--start%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3C%21--%20if%20you%20are%20changing%20the%20excluded%20groups%2C%20they%20should%20also%20be%20changed%20in%20this%20file%3A%0A%09%2Fpublic_html%2Fpsom-excluded-groups.php--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdmin%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Import%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ELiveWhale%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Department%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--end%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22webcal_feed_links%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E

This may be hard to read, let's see decoded XML:

https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/all?user_tz=IT&syntax=<widget type="events_calendar">
    <arg id="mini_cal_heat_map">true</arg>
    <arg id="thumb_width">200</arg>
    <arg id="thumb_height">200</arg>
    <arg id="hide_repeats">false</arg>
    <arg id="show_groups">false</arg>
    <arg id="show_tags">true</arg>
    <arg id="default_view">day</arg>
    <arg id="group">Office of Inclusion and Diversity</arg>    <!--start excluded groups-->    <!-- if you are changing the excluded groups, they should also be changed in this file:
	/public_html/psom-excluded-groups.php-->
    <arg id="exclude_group">Admin</arg>
    <arg id="exclude_group">Test Import</arg>
    <arg id="exclude_group">LiveWhale</arg>
    <arg id="exclude_group">Test Department</arg>    <!--end excluded groups-->
    <arg id="webcal_feed_links">true</arg>
</widget>

I suspect that https://events.med.upenn.edu/#!view/all doesn't actually show all the events (for instance, each request will get 50 items out of 1086 starting from today). Events from Office of Inclusion and Diversity are also not included in those 50 items, instead you need to make a request with this argument <arg id="group">Office of Inclusion and Diversity</arg>.

One thing to notice:

Main event page for med.upenn: https://events.med.upenn.edu/#!view/all.
Event page for Office of inclusion and Diversity: https://events.med.upenn.edu/inclusion-and-diversity/#!view/all.

or https://events.med.upenn.edu/{office or institute}/#!view/all and that {office or institute} is associated with argument in URL decoded XML <arg id="group">Office of Inclusion and Diversity</arg>.

[titipata]

Adding the scraper for MINS (http://go.activecalendar.com/upennmins)

[titipata]

Additional seminar to be added

• https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events
• https://statistics.wharton.upenn.edu/research/seminars-conferences/
• https://www.math.upenn.edu/events/seminars/applied-math-and-comp-sci-colloquium

[titipata]

help me @bluenex

• https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/research/seminars-conferences/
• https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/research/industrial-organization-workshop/
• https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/research/energy-economics-finance-seminar/
• https://fnce.wharton.upenn.edu/department-information/seminars/macro-seminars/
• https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/calendar/
• https://statistics.wharton.upenn.edu/research/seminars-conferences/
• https://accounting.wharton.upenn.edu/research/workshops/
• https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/department-information/seminars-conferences-2/
• https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/events/marketing-colloquia-2019-2020/
• https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/events/dpcolloquia/
• https://fnce.wharton.upenn.edu/department-information/seminars/micro-seminars/

[titipata]

@bluenex can you help on getting the JSON format from the following sites:

• https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/#!view/all
• https://events.med.upenn.edu/gcb/#!view/all

[bluenex]

@titipata fortunately, they are fairly simple. Don't forget to extract arguments from the request URL (if there are).

• nursing.upenn.edu
  • https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/all?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22modular%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_public%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3Emonth%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EWeb%20Admin%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E
• events.med.upenn.edu
  • https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/all?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22hide_repeats%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_groups%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_tags%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3Eday%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3EGenomics%20and%20Computational%20Biology%20Graduate%20Group%20%28GCB%29%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3EBiomedical%20Graduate%20Studies%20%28BGS%29%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22tag%22%3EGCB%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22webcal_feed_links%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E

[titipata]

Fix and add the following events

• https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/calendar
• https://www.ling.upenn.edu/events/
• https://events.med.upenn.edu/neurology/#!view/month (no events)
• https://neuro.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
• https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/events
• https://neuroethics.upenn.edu/events/ (blocked)
• https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse/events

[bluenex]

• https://events.med.upenn.edu/neurology/#!view/month
  • https://events.med.upenn.edu/live/calendar/view/month?user_tz=IT&syntax=%3Cwidget%20type%3D%22events_calendar%22%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22mini_cal_heat_map%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_width%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22thumb_height%22%3E200%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22hide_repeats%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_groups%22%3Efalse%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22show_tags%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22default_view%22%3Eday%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22group%22%3ENeurology%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--start%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3C%21--%20if%20you%20are%20changing%20the%20excluded%20groups%2C%20they%20should%20also%20be%20changed%20in%20this%20file%3A%0A%09%2Fpublic_html%2Fpsom-excluded-groups.php--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3EAdmin%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Import%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ELiveWhale%3C%2Farg%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22exclude_group%22%3ETest%20Department%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%21--end%20excluded%20groups--%3E%3Carg%20id%3D%22webcal_feed_links%22%3Etrue%3C%2Farg%3E%3C%2Fwidget%3E

[titipata]

@bluenex a few more missing departments:

• https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/wicshops/?cid=654&t=d&d=0000-00-00&cal=654#
• https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/current

[titipata]

• https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/events