Interview Guide Scraper

A full-stack application that scrapes technical interview questions from in28minutes.com, generates topic-wise PDF study guides, and serves them through a modern React frontend.

Features

✨ Backend (Java/Maven)

• Web scraping with JSoup to extract interview Q&As
• PDF generation with topic-wise guides
• JSON export for structured data
• Logging with SLF4J and Logback

✨ Frontend (React)

• 🌙 Dark/Light mode toggle
• 🔍 Full-text search across all topics
• 📄 PDF download per topic
• 💻 Syntax-highlighted code blocks with copy button
• 📱 Fully responsive mobile design
• ⬅️ ➡️ Section navigation
• ⬇️ Expand/Collapse Q&A accordions

Tech Stack

Backend: Java 17 • Maven • JSoup • OpenPDF • Jackson • SLF4J/Logback

Frontend: React 18 • Vite • Tailwind CSS • React Router v6 • Mermaid • Syntax Highlighter

Quick Start

1. Generate data (runs scraper):

   mvn package
   java -jar target/webscraper-1.0.0.jar
   

2. Runs Frontend :

   cd frontend
   npm install
   npm run dev
   

3. Open http://localhost:5173