Customized Skyscanner

a customized skyscanner for north-east asia flight tickets

Description

use Python for crawling data, then use Tableau for data visualization

Getting Started

Dependencies

• python 3.8.8
• pandas 1.3.3
• requests 2.26.0

Executing program

【Update sessionId】

• go to Tiger Airline and search a flight, for example
• inpect the webpage and reload
• find the sessionId
• update the sessionId in the ./config/payload.json

【Update airline ticket data】

cd Customized_Skyscanner
python main.py

【Tableau presentation】

• use Tableau Public to access this dashboard https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/xin.huang3860/viz/TigerAirlineTicketbyxinhuangtien/Tiger#1

TODO

1. more detailed information
2. more airline (Peach, Jetstar and Scoot)
3. fix the data preprocessing hitch in optimal.py
4. switch visualization dashboard from Tableau to Streamlit or customized frontend

Help

Any advise for common problems or issues.

Email: tom.h.huang@fubon.com
Tel: 02-2771-6699 #61381
Dept: 證券 數據科學部 資料服務處(6F)

Authors

Contributors names and contact info

• tom.h.huang
• hsiang.hung

Version History

• 0.1
  • Initial Release

Source

some references and third-party tools

• Peach Airline
• Tiger Airline