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.comwhere:
departureandarrivalare IATA airport codesdateis in YYYY-MM-DD formatrecipientis the email recipient
At 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=mypasswordThis 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.