README.md

a-level-pastpaper-crawler

Crawl cambridge a level papers from papers.gceguide.com

• Amend subject.json or subject_dict to add additional subjects

• Crawl delay is set to minimum value of 30 seconds according to robots.txt from the website.

• Papers are saved in current working folder by default. If needed, save_path may be modified.

libs

• requests
• pyqt5 (essential for gui version)

run command line version

1. git clone https://github.com/luke-tangh/a-level-paper-downloader.git or download lite_downloader.py
2. run lite_downloader.py
3. input subject and year
4. wait for download to complete

run gui version (not recommended)

1. git clone https://github.com/luke-tangh/a-level-paper-downloader.git
2. run main.pyw
3. modify Subject, Year and Type and click download
4. wait for download to complete

qp - question paper
ms - mark scheme
gt - grade threshold
ci - confidential information

supported subjects

• 9231 Mathematics Further
• 9489 History
• 9608 Computer Science (old)
• 9618 Computer Science (new)
• 9696 Geography
• 9700 Biology
• 9701 Chemistry
• 9702 Physics
• 9708 Economics
• 9709 Mathematics
• 9990 Psychology

robots

Retrieved from https://www.gceguide.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30
Disallow: 
Disallow: /wp-includes/*
Disallow: /Books/*
Disallow: /assets/*
Disallow: /files/*
Disallow: /draft/*
Disallow: /wp-content/*