AAScraper currently does not work with the latest AirAsia API
AAScraper is a web scraper tool that scrapes the AirAsia booking website to organically obtain the prices of all and the cheapest flights for a given date range, inspired by SkyScanner.
AAScraper uses a number of open source Python libraries to work properly.
bs4- Beautiful Soup 4 to parse the HTML source(s)requestsandurllibto perform the requests
For installation run the command:
$ pip3 install requirements.txtIncluded with the source is the file scrape.py that gives an example on how these functions are meant to be used. The function scrape() creates a file with the cheapest outgoing and return flights for every single day in a given date range.
Example output:
{
"2017-12-12": {
"outgoing": [
{
"flights": [
{
"destination": "14:50 (ICN)",
"origin": "07:20 (KUL)"
}
],
"price": "699.00 MYR"
},
{
"flights": [
{
"destination": "08:05 (DMK)",
"origin": "06:55 (KUL)"
},
{
"destination": "23:05 (ICN)",
"origin": "15:40 (DMK)"
}
],
"price": "1,953.72 MYR"
},
...
{
"flights": [
{
"destination": "15:10 (DMK)",
"origin": "11:20 (ICN)"
},
{
"destination": "00:15 (KUL) +1",
"origin": "21:00 (DMK)"
}
],
"price": "1,237.75 MYR"
}
]
}
}- Identify cookie generation method or pre-load cookies to be used in API queries
- Develop a front-end for simple data visualisation
- Add proxy support