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Major League Hacking Past Seasons

A list of all past MLH hackathons grouped by season and year.

Seasons

What hackathons are in this dataset?

Season	Region	Start Date	End Date	Events
Fall 2013	North America	6 September 2013	13 October 2013	5
Spring 2014	North America	17 January 2014	27 July 2014	38
Fall 2014	North America	30 August 2014	6 December 2014	36
Fall 2014	Europe	4 October 2014	7 December 2014	10
Spring 2015	North America	10 January 2015	16 August 2015	60
Spring 2015	Europe	7 February 2015	28 June 2015	18
Fall 2015	North America	7 August 2015	29 November 2015	52
Fall 2015	Europe	2 October 2015	20 December 2015	14
Spring 2016	North America	15 January 2016	29 May 2016	91
Spring 2016	Europe	30 January 2016	15 May 2016	25
2017	North America	27 August 2016	-	163
2017	Europe	7 October 2016	-	36
2018	North America
2018	Europe
2019	North America
2019	Europe

Scraping Process

Paste this following script into your browsers console REPL. Afterwards, your clipboard should now have a copy of that seasons hackathons in JSON

let scrape = () => ({
    year: $("h1").text().match(/[0-9]+/g)[0],
    season: $("h1").text().match(/Spring|Fall|North America|Europe/g)[0],
    events: $(".event-wrapper").map((_, e) => {
      e = $(e);
      return {
        name: e.find(".event-name").text(),
        url: e.find(".event-link").attr("href"),
        date:{
          start: new Date(e.find(`meta[itemprop="startDate"]`).attr("content")),
          end: new Date(e.find(`meta[itemprop="endDate"]`).attr("content"))
        },
        location: {
          city: e.find(`span[itemprop="city"]`).text(),
          state: e.find(`span[itemprop="state"]`).text(),
        }
      }
    }).toArray()
  });

var lines = JSON.stringify([scrape()], null, 2);
lines = lines.substring(lines.indexOf("\n") + 1);
lines = lines.substring(lines.lastIndexOf("\n"), -1);
lines += ",\n";
copy(lines);
lines

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