A Simple Web Scraping App of Flight Fares Using Python

Prerequisites

1. What you need to know to use this:

   1. Python
   2. Jupyter

2. The libraries you need to be familiar with are

   1. Selenium
   2. Matplotlib
   3. Pandas
   4. Scikit-Learn
   5. Beautiful Soup

How to Run the App

1. Download Python v3.8 and above

   Download Python here.

2. Install Jupyter

   This will enable you to run Jupyter Notebooks on your PC/Mac.

   pip install jupyter
   

3. Install Libraries used in the Code

   There are multiple libraries that have been used, run the command below to install all of them.

   pip install pandas numpy selenium bs4 matplotlib sklearn
   

4. Download the latest Chromedriver

   Download the latest chromedriver here.

   Note: Make sure that chromedriver version and your currently installed Chrome browser are the same.

5. Place your Chromedriver in your PATH

   Here are instructions depending on your OS, how you can set your PATH:

   1. Windows
   2. MacOS
   3. Linux

6. 🚀 Finally Run Jupyter

   Run the command below to run juypter.

   Note: You are going to need to specify the path to where you have downloaded or placed this projects files.

   jupyter notebook --notebook-dir /path/to/project
   

Note: That a snapshot will be taken and saved on the current folder of your project when you run the code

🤜 Happy Coding!!!