[Wolves] Ryanair web page ripper

[Simon Morris]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 16:43 +0100, Wayne Morris wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> This isn't necesarily a Linux question, but it seems a good place as
> any
> to start.
> 
> Cheap air flight companies like Ryanair don't tell you when the
> cheapest
> flights are, they expect you to pick a date then step forward or
> backwards
> day by day checking prices one by one.
> What would be really useful would be a bit of code that would strip
> out
> the price from a page, then say 'next day' and then get the new page
> and
> then build
> a table of results for a couple of months.
> 
> Any ideas how to get started with this?

I've written a tool to pull down webpages and parse values from forms,
submit forms back and so on.

You need to look at Pythons urllib2 and ClientForm libraries - Looking
at the RyanAir site it might not be easy though.

Thanks

~sm
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