evolutioneer / flight-js

A working example in node js to scrape airline websites for flight arrival and departure data.

Flight JS

This is a simple working example of an airline flight status web scraper written in node.

The script accepts command line options and currently yields results as debug() statements.

You can run the script in bash with: cd src ./test.sh

Command Line Interface

The command line interface accepts these parameters:

• --from, -f - the departure airport code, ex. DTW, SEA
• --to, -t - the arrival airport code
• --carrier, -c - the keyword identifying the carrier to scrape (currently only delta)
• --date, -d - the date to check for flight information in yyyy-mm-dd format

Note that currently you must prepend your node command with DEBUG=flight-js* to see the received output in debug.

The example command run in test.sh is:

DEBUG=flight-js* node flight-js.js -f DTW -t SEA -c delta -d 2017-01-31

Right now it yields JSON objects that look like this: { "fNum":" Delta 0039 ", "dPort":"DTW", "dDate":" 8:25AM 30 Jan 2017", "aPort":"SEA", "aDate":" 10:39AM 30 Jan 2017", "craft":" Boeing 737-900ER ", "tripTime":"5:14 ", "status":" Past Schedule " }

What Next

This probably looks like a dumpster fire to a proper node developer. If you want to help, check out this Trello for open to-dos.