Exam Topics Downloader

This repo aims to make it possible for you to obtain all the exam questions from the examtopics website (which is paywalled).

Setting it Up

Using docker

1. Make sure docker is installed on your system.
2. Pull the docker image:

docker pull ghcr.io/thatonecodes/examtopics-downloader:latest

3. Run the container:

docker run -it \
  --name examtopics-downloader \
  ghcr.io/thatonecodes/examtopics-downloader:latest \
  -p google -s devops \
  -save-links -o output.md
docker cp examtopics-downloader:/app/output.md .
docker cp examtopics-downloader:/app/saved-links.txt .
docker rm examtopics-downloader

Note

If seeing exec: format exec error or warnings about unsuportted platforms, if you are on linux/arm64, modify the docker cmd to:

docker run -it \
  --name examtopics-downloader \
  --platform linux/arm64 \
  ghcr.io/thatonecodes/examtopics-downloader:latest \
  -p google -s devops \
  -save-links -o output.md
docker cp examtopics-downloader:/app/output.md .
docker cp examtopics-downloader:/app/saved-links.txt .
docker rm examtopics-downloader

Using Dockerfile

1. git clone https://github.com/thatonecodes/examtopics-downloader and make sure docker is installed on your system.
2. Run docker build -t examtopics-dl . && docker run --rm examtopics-dl -p google -s devops -save-links -o output.md
3. After setup, it will give you a list of exams with the cisco provider.

Building from Source

1. First, you must install Golang >= 1.24 from the offical website.
2. Then, run git clone https://github.com/thatonecodes/examtopics-downloader in your terminal to clone the repo.
3. cd into the directory: cd examtopics-downloader
4. You can now run: go run ./cmd/main.go -p cisco -exams

(there will be compiled binaries in the future)

Command Line Arguments

Each command line argument you can provide when running the program:

  -c	Optionally include all the comment/discussion text
  -exams
    	Optionally show all the possible exams for your selected provider and exit
  -no-cache
    	Optional argument, set to disable looking through cached data on github
  -o string
    	Optional path of the file where the data will be outputted (default "examtopics_output.md")
  -p string
    	Name of the exam provider (default -> google) (default "google")
  -s string
    	String to grep for in discussion links (required)
  -save-links
    	Optional argument to save unique links to questions
  -t string
    	Optional argument to make cached requests faster to gh api
  -type string
    	Optionally include file type (default -> .md) (default "md")

Possible Arguments List

Exam Providers, -p

Provider (-p)	View Exams	Notes
amazon	Amazon Exams	AWS Certs
cisco	Cisco Exams
comptia	CompTIA Exams
salesforce	Salesforce Exams
fortinet	Fortinet Exams
juniper	Juniper Exams
isaca	ISACA Exams
vmware	VMware Exams
isc2	ISC2 Exams	CISSP etc
servicenow	ServiceNow Exams
google	Google Exams
microsoft	Microsoft Exams
ec-council	EC-Council Exams	CEH etc
oracle	Oracle Exams
paloaltonetworks	Palo Alto Networks Exams

Note

The more the amount of exams/discussion the provider has, the longer it will take to scrape through the exams.

-save-links && -output-save-links

This is a bool flag, so the default is that it's set to false, deactivated. If -save-links is false -output-save-links will do nothing. -output-save-links is a string which includes the output path for the saved links, default is saved-links.txt.

Grep String, -s

The -s argument can take an exam ID (ex. 200-301) or a word, such as "devops". for example:

go run . -p google -s devops

would get all exams from the google provider containing the string devops.

Comments and output, -c && -o

The -c argument is another bool flag, so it is defaultly set to false(as it creates a lot of noise in the .md file), but you can include it by adding the flag. -o is the output path, based on os.create(path), in the current working directory.

Exams output, -exams

This argument will display output defaulted to such as and exit immediately.

Exams for provider 'google'

https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/adwords-fundamentals/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/associate-android-developer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/associate-cloud-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/associate-data-practitioner/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/associate-google-workspace-administrator/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/cloud-digital-leader/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/display-advertising/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/google-analytics/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/gsuite/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/individual-qualification/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/mobile-advertising/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-chromeos-administrator/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-architect/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-database-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-developer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-devops-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-network-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-cloud-security-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-collaboration-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-data-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-google-workspace-administrator/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-machine-learning-engineer/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/search-advertising/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/shopping-advertising/
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/video-advertising/

Token Input, -t

When you add you Github PAT, it allows for more requests to the API, (up to 5000) which is needed when scraping bigger things. The cached data helps you access big dumps faster.

No Cache Arg, -no-cache

When you add this argument, it tells the program to ignore the cached Github repoitories of updated exam info, however the scraper will take longer than the cache. Useful when wanting to scrape realtime data.

File Type, -type

When you use the -type argument, it tells the program to convert the default filetype of .md files to the option of your choice.
Currently we have these types supported:

• html -> generates examtopics_output.html
• pdf -> generates examtopics_output.pdf
• txt -> generates examtopics_output.txt

Note

Files are kept in same/similar format as you would see in the .md file, for formatting changes, use other arguments.

For outputted file examples, see the examples folder

Demo

So, you have installed go on your system, and you're inside of the working directory. Let's say you would like the questions for the cisco exam 200-301.

Open your terminal and run:

go run . -p cisco -s 200-301

Note that you can put the id as the string to look for, as the program is compatible this way also.

After waiting a few moments, you would see the output end with:

Successfully saved output to {OUTPUT_LOCATION}.

If so, hooray, you have successfully saved all/most of the questions in a .md file! The format would be such as (older, only scraping format):

----------------------------------------

## Exam 200-301 topic 1 question 532 discussion

Actual exam question from

Cisco's
200-301

Question #: 532
Topic #: 1

[All 200-301 Questions]

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer configured NAT translations and has verified that the configuration is correct. Which IP address is the source IP after the NAT has taken place?
Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

A. 10.4.4.4

B. 10.4.4.5

C. 172.23.103.10

D. 172.23.104.4

**Answer: D**

**Timestamp: Jan. 5, 2021, 9:48 p.m.**

[View on ExamTopics](https://www.examtopics.com/discussions/cisco/view/41599-exam-200-301-topic-1-question-532-discussion/)

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