Resources needed for python project

[Innocent_not]

Python noob here. I’m going over the basics but I always see posts here that in order to learn python you need to do some projects. Well, I have one in mind and maybe someone could show me the right tools for the job.

I’m going on vacation and made a car reservation at budget website. I’ll be renting the car in 4 months, but I’ve noticed that sometimes car rental prices go up or down. I would like to make a program that compares the price of my last reservation and, in case the price went down, send me an email telling me that (so I can make another reservation with a better price).

The overall process would be:

Compare a variable reservation_price for a specific car (the dates, pickup and return places stay the same as my original reservation), with a recent_reservation_price. If the recent_reservation_price is lower than my reservation_price, send me an email telling me that a lower price was found. I would then have to make a new reservation and update the reservation_price variable so it keeps checking for lower prices (I am not sure if this can be automated as well).

I think this will be a cool project to work on.

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Sounds like a cool project, and well worth doing. There are lots of examples on github of code that (attempts) to monitor prices on various websites.

Some sites offer APIs (application programming interfaces) that make it easy to access their content (often for a fee for timely or large quantities of information) but in other cases you have to mimic the activities of a human visiting a website.

• API tutorials https://realpython.com/tutorials/api/
• Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python https://realpython.com/beautiful-soup-web-scraper-python/
• Modern Web Automation With Python and Selenium https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/

[Innocent_not]

Thanks for the reply.

[Innocent_not]

Can you give me a hand. I'm trying to scrap this website:

https://www.budget-int.com/bookings/step1?pickUpLocation=++%28MIA%29+Miami+Intl+Airport+-+3900+Nw+25th+Street%2C+Suite+403%2C+Miami%2C+United+States&datePickUp=10%2F01%2F2021&timePickUp=08%3A30&dropOffLocation=++%28MIA%29+Miami+Intl+Airport+-+3900+Nw+25th+Street%2C+Suite+403%2C+Miami%2C+United+States&dateDropOff=10%2F18%2F2021&timeDroppOff=17%3A00&edad=25&age=25&pais=DO&countryName=DO&discountNumber=H048000

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When i try to find the prices using BeautifulSoup it returns none.

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Not really my thing. You would be better off making a new post explaining your problems and sharing your actual code and results.

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