package-tracking-webscraper

Webscraper for a website with AJAX elements.

This was done for a package/shipment tracking website and is not an official product.

Installation

This scraper requires selenium, beautifulSoup and PhantomJS. Selenium and beautifulSoup can be installed with

pip install selenium
pip install beautifulSoup

PhantomJS is a headless webdriver that cannot be installed via pip. More info on:

Windows install: https://www.joecolantonio.com/how-to-install-phantomjs/

Ubuntu install: https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-phantomjs-on-ubuntu-16-04

Usage

Run the packagescraper.py script with

python packagescraper.py

and paste the document numbers you wish to track and they will be exported to a .csv file.

Alternatively, you can use the scrape method of the PackageScraper class, passing in a list of documents to be scraped and the output file name:

import PackageScraper

scraper = PackageScraper()
scraper.scrape(input_list=list_of_documents , file='scraping_output.csv')