Flight_Tracker

Track flights to help plan vacation or small trips

Objective

Create a tool to track flights listed in an online spreadsheet, compare with a maximum cost and print a message if lower prices are found, including: cost, origin, destination and dates.

Note: Twilio module is not active, but the module notification.py allows sending SMS via Twilio.

Setup Before Use

Create KIWI API Account

Use links below and create a Kiwi account. No need for a paid account.

Resources:

1. Kiwi Partners Flight Search API
2. Tequila Flight Search API Documentation

Google Spreadsheet

Create a google spreadsheet:

1. Using google sheets to read, write and append data. Not an easy task and demanded a lot of searching the web to be able to interface with google sheets. Finally found a good video on Youtube in this link.

The google spreadsheet must have a tab named 'Flight_Wishlist' which must contain the following headers:

1. Destination: with destination city, airport or country name.
2. Type: identifying whether 'Destination' contains a city, airport or country.
3. IATA_Code: this field can remain blank and is populated by the script.
4. Max_Price: populate it if the max price for the flight price search. If no lower price is found, returns blank.

Once this step is complete you should also have a credentials.json saved to your folder, carrying your own data.

Changes to python scripts:

On main.py, update the following:

1. Update the value of SPREADSHEET_ID to your own google spreadsheet. On flight_data.py, update the following:
2. Update KIWI_API_KEY to your own Kiwi api key. Be careful not to share your key on the web!