Screen Scraping - Airfares Website (200 sites to go!)

This is a straight forward project that would:

1. scrap the website based on the parameters given: (Summary)

From Location

To Location

Start Dare

Return Date

Passengers

a Adults

b Childres

c Infant

Way

Class of service

What I want in return is:

a. Airline Code

b. Supplier code (If the site is a consolidator)

c. Currency (ISO only)

d. Amount

e. Change currency to local currency based on the From Location.

f. Tax if any in local currency.

2. Must be coded in Java for a web application

3. Must be Threadsafe, fast & consume very little memory.

4. Use Apache / Jakarta libraries or prove that the codes are open source to assist you in the project.

5. Must not break easily.

6. I would like these sites done for now:

a. Aero Asia

Flights within Pakistan and from Pakistan to Gulf Area

b. Air Blue

Flights within Pakistan

c. Air Deccan

Flights within Southern India

d. Awair

Flights within Indonesia

e. Citilink

Flights within Indonesia

f. Freedom Air

Flights between Australia and New Zealand

g. Lion Air

Flights within Indonesia and flights to/from Indonesia

h. One-Two-Go

Flights within Thailand

i. Origin Pacific Airways

Flights within New Zealand

j. Skymark Airlines

Flights within Japan

k. Skynet Asia Airways

.. Many come if you can handle it, we have a list of 400.

If some of these sites could not be scraped, tell us to negotiate the deal.

7. I am willing to pay more if you could do it asap. please state your price.

8. Interface & a Test library will be provided to successful / interested coders.

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Sorry for the delay in choosing a coder, I am back & would send the API shortly. cheers.

## Deliverables

1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):

a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.

b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.

3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).

* * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Thursday Aug 11, 2005 8:40:33 AM:

Thanks for bidding, I was overseas for a while & was not able to communicate.

I would prepare a different version of the Interface & API & please let me know how well we could proceed.

as a token of my appreciation, the best coder will be selected to build a selected part of airline booking system for the Asian Market.

Cheers.

* * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Monday Aug 15, 2005 12:45:34 PM:

Thanks for bidding.

I have attached the dev api (classes) to use for the development.

The example class (working) is [url removed, login to view]

this gets the price for [url removed, login to view]

Run the class to get the fares.

You are free the change [url removed, login to view] currency Converter's method to suite your needs.

Please let me know if you are comfortable & we could start.

I would select more that 1 coder in stages to complete 200 websites.

cheers.

## Platform

Java SDK 1.5 & Above

Runs on Red Hat Ent 3 & Windows XP

Runs on Resin 3

MySQL Database

Runs quick, fast, & low memory.

Java PHP

ID Projekti: #3815065

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