[FOSSOVERFLOW-25] feat: Automatic Scraping & Parsing of Academic Calendar

Feature Request: Automatic Scraping & Parsing of Academic Calendar

Problem Statement

Current Issue:
The academic calendar is uploaded on the IIT Bhilai website as a PDF/HTML table, and currently admins must manually copy dates into our Calendar component. This is time-consuming, error-prone, and requires updates every semester/year.

Proposed Solution

✅ Automatic Academic Calendar Scraping

• Add a backend service that periodically scrapes the academic calendar from:
  https://www.iitbhilai.ac.in/index.php?pid=aca_calendar
• Parse events and categorize them like "academic", "holiday", etc

✅ Integration with Existing Calendar UI

• New events should automatically appear in the existing Calendar component with category-appropriate icons and color coding.
• Admins should have ability to review/edit scraped data before publishing (optional improvement).

Technical Notes

Possible Libraries

• BeautifulSoup4 / lxml (for HTML scraping)
• PyMuPDF or pdfplumber if format changes back to PDF

Alternatives Considered

1. Manual Upload of Events
   ❌ Still requires regular admin effort
2. Direct API Feed from Institute Website
   ❌ No such API currently exists

Mockups & Visual Examples

• Checkout the figma design mockups in README

Start by reading the README's Figma mockups and locating the existing Calendar component and calendar events table. Define the scraping, parsing, categorization, scheduling, and failure behavior from the issue, with new events appearing in the UI and the last known data retained when scraping fails.