Airline data sets: flight data resources

How do you capture airline data? Check out these potholes first

Recently, a lot of friends doing travel website asked, want to catch the real-time flight data of airlines, the result is either blocked IP or the data is incomplete. I am too familiar with this matter, last year to help an OTA platform to do data docking, just IP blocked to change seven or eight programs.

To cite a chestnut, I want to catch the special airfare data of an airline company, and I used my own computer to crawl for 3 hours, and the next day I directly received a warning letter from the server room. Later found that the anti-climbing mechanism of the airline company than the Spring Festival security check is also strict, ordinary IP simply can not carry.

Proxy IP is the real solution

Who's still single-handedly hardcore when it comes to serious data collection these days?Dynamic Proxy IP PoolThat's the standard. For example, with ipipgo's rotating proxy, which automatically changes IPs every 5 minutes, the crawl success rate directly soared from 30% to 90%+.

Here's a key point:Don't use free agents.I'm not sure if you're a good person, but I'm a good person! Last year, a friend was greedy to use free IP to catch flight dynamics, but the result was that the data was mixed with a fake flight number of 30%, and he was almost sued by the partner for breach of contract.

import requests
from ipipgo import get_proxy

def fetch_flight_data():
    proxies = {
        "http": get_proxy(type='https'),
        "https": get_proxy(type='https')
    }
    try.
        res = requests.get('https://api.airline.com/flights',
                         proxies=proxies, timeout=10)
                         timeout=10)
        return res.json()
    except Exception as e.
        print(f "Crawl error: {str(e)}")

Practical Tips and Tricks

Based on our experience deploying to customers, we have compiled this parameter comparison table:

In particular.Mobile AgentThe new 4G/5G Dynamic IP of ipipgo is very good for catching the official website of some shipping companies with base station verification. Last time, a customer used it to catch the data of international routes, and it ran continuously for 72 hours without triggering the wind control.

5 Questions You're Sure to Ask

Q: Will I be discovered by the airline company if I use a proxy IP?
A: The key is to look at the quality of the proxy. ipipgo's high stash of proxies comes with MAC address masquerading, which we have tested, and not even Emirates Airline's counter-crawl can detect it.

Q: Do I need to maintain my own IP pool?
A: Never! Maintaining an IP pool by yourself is like grabbing tickets for the spring transportation, which is time-consuming and laborious. Buy a ready-made proxy service directly, and ipipgo's intelligent scheduling system will automatically eliminate invalid IPs.

Q: Will it conflict if I grab multiple airline websites at the same time?
A: Remember to assign separate IP segments to different websites. For example, Air China uses 192.168.1.x, and China Eastern Airlines uses 10.0.0.x. This way, you will not string the data, and it is not easy to trigger the concurrency limit.

Why recommend ipipgo

Last year, during the Double Eleven promotion, a travel platform used our agency services toGrab 7 million flight data in a single dayThe key is that their technical director told me that they have never had any IP bans in half a year. The point is that their technical director told me that after six months of use there has never been an IP ban in a row.

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As a final reminder, it's important to capture dataCentral AuthoritiesThe first thing you need to do is to avoid the early hours of the morning. It is recommended to control the frequency of requests and avoid the early morning maintenance hours, after all, the operation and maintenance of the airline company's small brother is not easy. If you really can't decide, you can just use ipipgo's smart throttling mode, and the system will automatically adapt to the affordability of the target site.