Help me extract some info from a web page

xmrkite · 01-31-2008, 11:53 AM

Hello, i need to extract some info from the fedex web page so that we can view tracking info in a somewhat automated way.

For example, if you go to this page: http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?langua...s=799243830729

We need to extract the status, ship date, and the delivery date out of that file so we can check and make sure fedex delivered on time.

I'm sure it's possible with grep and sed, but i just don't really know how to use them well.

Let me know if anyone has any ideas or tips. Code is welcome. Hopefully a simple bash script will be able to do this.

-Thanks

dive · 01-31-2008, 01:05 PM

That was fun

This could probably be better in perl than bash, and the formatting is a bit patchy and a bit of a hack. You need to try out a few different tracking numbers really.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

 echo -n "Tracking Number: "
 read track

 links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track" | grep Delivered | sed  's/by\ using//' | sed 's/Checker.//' | sed 's/Go\ to//'

xmrkite · 01-31-2008, 01:20 PM

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't give any dates for when it was shipped and when it was delivered. Any ideas?
-Thanks

dive · 01-31-2008, 03:19 PM

Code:

 #!/bin/bash

 echo -n "Tracking Number: "
 read track

 delivdate=`links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track" | grep "Delivery date"`
 delivtime=`links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track" | grep "Weight" | sed 's/Address//'`
 shipdate=`links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track" | grep "Ship date" | sed 's/by\ using//'`
 echo $delivdate$delivtime
 echo $shipdate

If you look at the whole output from links then add your own greps and seds for the parts you want it's quite simple.
man grep
man sed
for more info.

forrestt · 01-31-2008, 03:54 PM

To be a little nicer to FedEx:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Tracking Number: "
read track
fedexpage=`links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track"`
delivdate=`echo $fedexpage | grep "Delivery date"`
delivtime=`echo $fedexpage | grep "Weight" | sed 's/Address//'`
shipdate=`echo $fedexpage | grep "Ship date" | sed 's/by\ using//'`
echo $delivdate$delivtime
echo $shipdate

This isn't working properly, but I'll try to fix it.

HTH

Forrest

forrestt · 01-31-2008, 04:07 PM

This does the trick:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Tracking Number: "
read track
links -dump "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?language=english&cntry_code=us&tracknumbers=$track" > /tmp/$track
delivdate=`grep "Delivery date" /tmp/$track`
delivtime=`grep "Weight" /tmp/$track | sed 's/Address//'`
shipdate=`grep "Ship date" /tmp/$track | sed 's/by\ using//'`
echo $delivdate$delivtime
echo $shipdate
rm /tmp/$track

HTH

Forrest

xmrkite · 01-31-2008, 07:11 PM

Wow, you guys rock. These work great. Thank so much for the help. That was about as quick as they come...less than 5 hours after my initial post.

-Thanks
-Steve