This project is going to be composed of few packages that are going to be scraping from wikipedia the following information:
- World Airports
- World Airlines
- World destinations
This is intended for use of an updated database of information for a map application.
Before testing this application you have to run make update-local-pages to download a local copy of the html pages required for tests.
Then run tests with make test
aviation-scraper -h
displays this help:
Usage: aviation-scraper [options]
Retrieve airlines destinations and airports data.
Multiple options are not allowed, only '-b' and '-s' options can be combined with the rest.
Example for saving individual files to airports:
$ aviation-scraper -a -s true
Example for saving file to an specific directory:
$./aviation-scraper -a -b './my_new_directory'
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-l, --list List of airports with the link to the wikipedia page. (Saved to a single file)
-d, --destinations Destinations of all the airlines listed on the wikipedia. (saved each airline with an individual JSON file)
-a, --airports Saves the important data for each airport (saved in a single JSON file and optional for each airport)
-c, --companies Saves all the airline links and all the important information for each airline.
-b, --base <basedir> the base directory where to save the files generated (default: tmp)
-s, --save <save> this options allows you to save individual files for each airline, airport or destination (default:false)
if you wish to contribute create your branch and create a pull request on the dev branch or you can create an issue.