flightsio

Run the script

First step is to install the requirements for the project. These are defined in the requirements.txt file.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Command line

To dynamically invoke the functions available in flightsio, you can use the provide command line utility. To install the utility run the following command:

$ pip install -e .

After executing the installer you should have access to the fio command line. Calling fio in the command line should give you an output similar to:

$ fio
Usage: fio [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

An empty click group, required in order to bundle the other commands.

Options:
--help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
all-routes    Reads the entire destination list of of the given airport...
destinations  Reads the entire destination list of of the given airport...
routes        Reads the route list between a source airport and a...

Invoke actions

After installing the command line utility, you have access to the commands provided by fio. To explore the inputs required by each command you can use --help argument.

$ fio destinations --help
Usage: fio destinations [OPTIONS]

Reads the entire destination list of of the given airport returns the name
of the airport and url associated with it. Sample usage: fio destinations
--from-airport PHX

Options:
-a, --from-airport TEXT  The three letter code of the source airport. I.e.
                        PHX
-v, --verbosity LVL      Either CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO or DEBUG
--help                   Show this message and exit.

A sample usage of the destinations command requires the --from-airport argument
to have the letter code of an airport. Invoking it looks like:

$ fio destinations --from-airport phx
{
    "Sioux Falls": "https://info.flightmapper.net/airport/PHX/FSD",
    "Jacksonville": "https://info.flightmapper.net/airport/PHX/JAX",
    "Manzanillo": "https://info.flightmapper.net/airport/PHX/ZLO",
    ...
    "Detroit": "https://info.flightmapper.net/airport/PHX/DTW",
    "New Orleans": "https://info.flightmapper.net/airport/PHX/MSY"
}

Unit Tests

The project has a very basic set of unit tests used to develop the logic in the parsers. The unit tests read a given sample html file and then parse the contents of the file. To run the unit tests:

$ python -m pytest