Flight-Aware-Web-Scraping

Gathering Flight Data For Social Network Analysis Using Selenium and BeautifulSoup from FlightAware

Required Python Libraries

• BeautifulSoup(bs4)
• Selenium(geckodriver)
• Networkx
• Datapackage

Usage

Required Arguments: --start Initial Airport Code (IATA Code) --edge-count Number of Edges to collect

Getting Started

This program collects needed amount of direct flight edges between airports and creates a .gexf file for Social Network Analysis. Both of the arguments are needed for the execution of the program.

python flight_data_to_gexf.py --start IST --edge-count 100

Data Sources

Airport Data: https://datahub.io/core/airport-codes/