Mmtscraper (MakeMyTripScraper)

This Project is a offers scraper for makemytrip.com. This will scrape all the offers currently available at MakeMyTrip and store them into a workbook.

Packages used

• Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.

documentation and further reading - Selenium.

• BeautifulSoup

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. and the best thing about bs4 is that it handles structurally or syntactically incorrect HTML code written for a web page

documentation - BeautifulSoup

• requests

  Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor.

  documentation - Requests

• html-table-extractor

  HTML Table Extractor is a python library that uses [Beautiful Soup] to extract data from complicated and messy html tables.

  documentation - [html-table-extractor(https://pypi.org/project/html-table-extractor/)

• openpyxl

  openpyxl is a Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.

  documentation - openpyxl

Usage

first of all clone this repo with:

git clone https://github.com/manasec/mmtscraper.git

then install required dependencies and libraries using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

And finally run the driver program from mmtscraper/ directory:

python main.py

Important notes:

• flush/clear all the data of data.xlsx file everytime before running the package to avoid redundancy, this can be automated with a small code snippet but i will update it later
• Firefox driver or IE can be used in place of chromedriver as per your preference
• The offer directories and the html structure of the website may change in future.
• The regex's used are not strict but does the work for now.
• use rotating proxies and different user-agents to avoid getting blocked
• I'm not responsible for any action/ban by makemytrip on anyone for scraping their website, use this tool at your own risk.