Schoolcrawl is a project mainly written in PHP and PYTHON, it's free.
Crawls the value-added school effectiveness data from the LA Times website
Schoolcrawl
This module lets you download the school effectiveness information held on the LA Times website.
*Before using, double-check http://projects.latimes.com/robots.txt to ensure you're obeying the terms-of-service*
To use, run
./gatherschools.php -r "<Your organization>" -e "<Your email>" -m 1 -o schooldata.csv
This will gather and store the school data as a CSV file suitable for uploading to OpenHeatMap
By Pete Warden <[email protected]>, freely reusable, see http://petewarden.typepad.com for more