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0 pointsjonatron4y ago0 comments

If you look at Ryanair, they've had legal battles with scrapers for more than 10 years, so it's not that simple.

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I found Ryanair one of the more friendly ones to scrape, albeit for my own personal project. When you query for flights, they make a GET request with a JSON object in response, complete with flight times and prices.

For example:

  curl "https://www.ryanair.com/api/booking/v4/en-gb/availability?ADT=1&CHD=0&DateIn=&DateOut=2021-11-15&Destination=BER&Disc=0&INF=0&Origin=MAN&TEEN=0&promoCode=&IncludeConnectingFlights=false&FlexDaysBeforeOut=2&FlexDaysOut=2&ToUs=AGREED" | jq

jonatronOP4y ago

I haven't tried to scrape Ryanair, you could be right that it's trivial. It's the legal side that has a long and interesting history. Personally I wouldn't scrape them unless it was when working for a company that can afford lawyers.

shapefrog4y ago

{"code":"TermsOfUseAreNotAccepted","message":"TermsOfUseAreNotAccepted"}

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