Data Importer TUI

3rd Oct 2017
Tags:
data,
TUI,
NodeJS,
JavaScript,
Rust

It was a data entry and import solution to a government data management system, that has been designed and used internally.

Web UI of the target system was very cumbersome and slow, 3-5x slower than one-by-one entry with the TUI, up to 10x slower when doing bulk upload. This lead to me designing and optimizing it for easier data entry first in JavaScript using NodeJS and later using Rust.

Its working procedure involved:

Logging into the service
Composing a HTTP POST request for a new data
Appropriately fetching and displaying the captcha in command line
Submitting the captcha

This data importer took approximately 25 person-hours of development and maintenance time and saved about 65 hours in usage, netting on 40 hours saved in total.

This project was a proprietary one and is no longer maintained.