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Old 08-18-2019
Facing difficulty scraping website with curl

Hi,

As an exercise, I am attempting to scrape the following website to obtain ticket price for a certain journey, so I can capture the cheapest ticket by running the script hourly.

Code:
https://www.skyscanner.com.au/transport/d/del/2019-12-14/bkkt/bkkt/2019-12-19/del?adults=2&children=0&adultsv2=2&childrenv2=&infants=0&cabinclass=economy&ref=home#/

I am not able to capture the ticket price via the curl command. Is there any better way to scrape the webpage to get the information I need?

Code:
curl -o skyscanner.txt -L https://www.skyscanner.com.au/transport/d/del/2019-12-14/bkkt/bkkt/2019-12-19/del?adults=2&children=0&adultsv2=2&childrenv2=&infants=0&cabinclass=economy&ref=home#/

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 08-18-2019
Actually, it looks like this might be more than an exercise. It appears that skyscanner provides us with a method to "Get Price Alerts" if there are fluctuations in the ticket price, however I don't find this option for the flight(s) I intend to go on. (4 flights across multiple cities).

Thanks.
# 3  
Old 08-18-2019
I assume you are going to use their API?

API Reference -skyscanner developers

"Screen Scraping" is a thing of the past, really...

JSON APIs like this one are the current "in thing" Smilie
# 4  
Old 08-19-2019
Hi Neo,

I didn't know about that - thanks! It looks like this will be useful.

Cheers.
# 5  
Old 08-19-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by sand1234
Hi Neo,

I didn't know about that - thanks! It looks like this will be useful.

Cheers.
Most commercial web sites like Skyscanner have APIs these days.

There is no need so "screen scrape" in most cases these days ... "screen scraping" is a relic of the distance "way of the dinosaur" past.....
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