A simple tool to monitor business class fares for Qatar Airways. It fills search forms and then clicks (1) one week forward for outbound flight and (2) one week forward for inbound flight and stores output pages as html files in html/ directory. Then you can use a sample parser I wrote to get the cheapest price and dates.
The script may return errors when site session expires or if it can't get another site etc. After error a screenshot is taken and stored in file qatar-error.png.
To see browser window while running, use -v option.
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Download
geckodriverbinary from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.24.0, uncompress it and save in the project directory. -
Create virtualenv with
python3 -m venv venv. Activate itsource venv/bin/activate -
Install pip packages
pip install -r requirements.txt
python search.py --help
usage: search.py [-h] [-f FROM_AIRPORT] [-t TO_AIRPORT] [-a {qatar}] [-d DATE]
[-w WEEKS] [-m MONTHS] [-c {business,economy}]
Search flight prices
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FROM_AIRPORT, --from FROM_AIRPORT
Flight origin (default: WAW)
-t TO_AIRPORT, --to TO_AIRPORT
Flight destination (default: AKL)
-a {qatar}, --airlines {qatar}
Airlines name (default: qatar)
-d DATE, --date DATE Departure date YYYY-MM-DD (default: 2019-05-19)
-w WEEKS, --weeks WEEKS
Return flight after this number of weeks (default: 3)
-m MONTHS, --search-months MONTHS
Stop search after this number of months (default: 6)
-c {business,economy}, --class {business,economy}
Travel class (default: business)
Search flights by Qatar Airlines (only this one is supported for now) from Warsaw to Aukland, 10 months forward with 3 week difference between departure and arrival date.
python search.py -m 10 -f WAW -t AKL -w 3
To see browser window while running, add -v option. Please take note it will be of size 2560x1440.
Crawled sites are stored in htmls/. Simple parser is also available:
# Remeber to change directory name
python parse.py htmls/qatar/201905191538-WAW:AKL-business/
Searcher:
$ python search.py -f WAW -t AKL -m 6 -w 3
=> QATAR SEARCH (until 19 Nov 2019)
flight: WAW-AKL Business
departure: 19 May 2019
return: 09 Jun 2019
> waiting for the next inbound page... got 16 Jun 2019
> waiting for the next outbound page... got 26 May 2019
> waiting for the next inbound page... got 23 Jun 2019
> waiting for the next outbound page... got 02 Jun 2019
> waiting for the next inbound page... got 30 Jun 2019
> waiting for the next outbound page... got 09 Jun 2019
[...]
> waiting for the next outbound page... got 17 Nov 2019
> waiting for the next inbound page... got 15 Dec 2019
> waiting for the next outbound page... got 24 Nov 2019
Parser:
$ python parse.py htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20190519:20190609.html
Minimal outbound price 22 May 2019: 11534.86
Minimal inbound price 06 Jun 2019: 8401.56
Total price: 19936.42
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20190519:20190616.html
Minimal outbound price 22 May 2019: 11534.86
Minimal inbound price 13 Jun 2019: 8401.56
Total price: 19936.42
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20190526:20190616.html
Minimal outbound price 23 May 2019: 11534.86
Minimal inbound price 13 Jun 2019: 8401.56
Total price: 19936.42
[...]
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20191110:20191208.html
Minimal outbound price 08 Nov 2019: 8466.81
Minimal inbound price 05 Dec 2019: 8409.52
Total price: 16876.33
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20191117:20191208.html
Minimal outbound price 14 Nov 2019: 8466.81
Minimal inbound price 05 Dec 2019: 8409.52
Total price: 16876.33
> Parsing file htmls/qatar/201905191651-WAW:AKL-business/qatar-business-WAW:AKL-20190519:20190609-20191117:20191215.html
Minimal outbound price 15 Nov 2019: 8466.81
Minimal inbound price 12 Dec 2019: 8409.52
Total price: 16876.33
MINIMAL TOTAL PRICE (17 Aug 2019 - 08 Sep 2019): 16876.33
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