Flight Scraper

Flight Scraper drives a browser to search for tickets across multiple airline sites, scraping/emailing/plotting fare information.

Setup

Requires Python 2.7.

Install Xvfb:

sudo aptitude install xvfb

Install Google Chrome and ChromeDriver.

For the web reports, install Less and fetch/build the resources:

npm install -g less
make

Install flight-scraper:

pip install flight-scraper

Usage

To use the program for yourself, for now you'll just have to edit the program, namely the gen() function inside the script() function. A query processor that is flexible enough to accommodate a good variety of possible requests and understands how to dispatch this meta-query by quering each of the different airlines is beyond the scope of the current code.

The program aggregates the results of the queries into an HTML report, then sends an email summary which links to the report (specify a --url-base).