whazor / roundtrip

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New: Tripchemy

After using the below project, @Roconda and me started developing a version that scrapes from airlines directly and uses smart algorithms to directly provide cool routes. Check out https://www.tripchemy.com/ for the latest versions.

Roundtrip finder

Warning: This project finds flight information from Google Flights and room price information from AirBNB, do not abuse their services.

This code is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored or endorsed by Google or AirBnB or any of their affiliates or subsidiaries. This crawls the data from Google Flights and AirBnB. Use at your own risk.

The roundtrip finder searches for the cheapest tour within given locations.

Functionality

Install

First optionally create a python enviroment.

Then execute the following commands:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py runserver

You might need to install the chromedriver, on an OSX machine you can run:

brew install chromedriver

Catches

There are some catches which I address below:

• consider the flight times, you want to avoid flying too early or too late as you have to travel to the airport. Currently, flights are filtered with a departure time between 08:00 and 20:00. This is hard-coded and you can find the query parameter here.
• it only searches for continental destinations, currently fixed to Europe which is hard-coded here. I tried adding intercontinential but got negative results.
• consider the distance from airport to city (airport of paris is 2 hours traveling)
• flights can be canceled, have a backup plan (for example a rental car). In Europe you retrieve compensation for last-minute changes, more details.

Safe travels! Let everyone know about your (un)successful trips in the issues.

Feedback

When running into problems, please create issues or pull requests.

roundtrip's Issues

Implement Headless Chrome

Add cost of living

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Add price and time for traveling from and to airport

Some airports are 2 hours traveling while others are only half an hour.

Where to acquire data? maybe wikitravel or use travel distance per airport

Detailed trip length configurations

• Per city min/max
• Min days total trip
• Max days total trip

Find clever way to find out class name

Google Flights compiles their stylesheets, so every new version comes with a new class name.

See code

Consider adding a license

See https://choosealicense.com/ for tl;dr and to confirmation that it is a real problem

Currently no license is mentioned anywhere, what makes this code fully copyrighted. This is a default for any creative work - what includes software.

Please, please add a license. The fact none is listed makes using this software a legal quagmire.

For start - people are not allowed to make pull requests with improvements as it would require ditribution of modified code - that is fully copyrighted.

For example currently it is not legal to use, improve or distribute this code. Hopefully this is not the intended effect, given that code was open sources.

In case that for some reason not releasing it under open license is intentional - mentioning it in the readme also would be a good idea. Though note that given that it is open sourced it will not stop anyone not caring about copyrights.

Popular licences include:

• MIT license that allows people to use code for any purpose
• GNU GPLv3 that intends to allow everything but to block people from distributing closed source versions that build on open source project

Feel free to ask me questions :) I know and understand that people often prefer to ignore copyright law, unfortunately it will not make it disappear.