It's a simple flight prices scraper written in Go. Given a route and a date, it's gonna query Kayak.com website, parse the page, and send the information to the provided email recipient.
The simplest way to use it is to download it for your operating system and run:
$ ./flight-scraper -departure=FCO -arrival=AMS -date=2020-06-15 -recipient=alice@test.com,bob@test.com
where:
departure
and arrival
are IATA airport codesdate
is in YYYY-MM-DD formatrecipient
is the email recipientAt the moment you also need to set up an email SMTP server, adding the environment variables in the .env
file.
Use the .env.dist
file as a reference:
SMTP_FROM="Flights scraper <noreply@antodippo.com>"
SMTP_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=myusername
SMTP_PWD=mypassword
This is similar to what you get as a result in your email:
Route | Time | Airline | Price |
---|---|---|---|
FCO - AMS | 15:30 - 18:00 | easyJet | 76€ |
FCO - AMS | 10:30 - 13:05 | LEVEL | 81€ |
FCO - AMS | 19:35 - 22:10 | LEVEL | 97€ |
FCO - AMS | 8:35 - 11:05 | Alitalia | 109€ |
FCO - AMS | 14:05 - 16:35 | Alitalia | 109€ |
FCO - AMS | 6:30 - 8:50 | KLM | 143€ |
FCO - AMS | 19:40 - 22:05 | KLM | 143€ |
FCO - AMS | 12:40 - 15:10 | KLM | 143€ |
FCO - AMS | 10:20 - 12:55 | KLM | 143€ |
FCO - AMS | 17:25 - 20:00 | KLM | 143€ |
A possible use is to run it as a cron job, so you get flight prices in your inbox every chosen amount of time.
This was build just for learning and experimentation purposes, before using it please read Kayak.com terms and conditions.