ryanscan

What is this?

A small tool to make easier the task of searching flights on Ryanair's website, especially with multiple origins, destinations or possible connecting flights.

Why?

Because it is annoying to do it by hand, and it is a fun small project :).

Requirements

Should work with Python 2.7 and any Python 3 version. However this has not been thoroughly tested. If you find any issue, do not hesitate to open an issue on github.

You will need pip to install it. Virtualenv is recommended but not necessary.

How to install

Since this is not in PyPI, you need to clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/bgusach/ryanscan.git

Optionally create a virtualenv and activate it. Activating it depends on your shell. If you are using bash the following lines should work:

virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate

Finally install ryanscan:

pip install .

How does it work?

IMPORTANT: By using this programme you agree to the Terms of Use of the Ryanair website

So far it only has a command line interface. First of all, you need to know the IATA codes of the airports you want to query. The easiest way is to use the find-airports command like this:

$ ryanscan find-airports bremen valencia alicante
ryanscan: Finding airports
Alicante (ES): ALC
Bremen (DE)  : BRE
Valencia (ES): VLC

Once you have the IATA codes, you can use the find-flights command. Let's say we want to query what flights are available from Bremen to Valencia or Alicante within a given timeframe (disclaimer: this is not real data):

$ ryanscan find-flights BRE VLC,ALC 2016-10-20 2016-10-25
ryanscan: Getting network
ryanscan: Getting airports information
ryanscan: 16 path(s) found
ryanscan: Finding valid solutions
BRE > VLC | Thu 2016-10-20 09:40 - 15:20 | 120.00€
  - BRE > STN | Thu 2016-10-20 09:40 - 10:10 | FR 3631 | 10.00€
  - STN > VLC | Thu 2016-10-20 11:50 - 15:20 | FR 1379 | 110.00€
BRE > VLC | Sat 2016-10-22 07:00 - 15:05 | 260.00€
  - BRE > STN | Sat 2016-10-22 07:00 - 07:30 | FR 3631 | 10.00€
  - STN > VLC | Sat 2016-10-22 11:35 - 15:05 | FR 1379 | 250.00€
BRE > ALC | Sun 2016-10-23 15:50 - 18:45 | FR 9057 | 250.00€

Type ryanscan --help to see further options.

TODO

Add support for both ways search
Accept minimum and maximum time between flights as a parameter