⚠️ NOTICE: (2019-01-12) Magyar Posta redesigned their tracking site and added a CAPTCHA, thus this script cannot handle the site and even if it was updated, it would need a CAPTCHA solver. I'm only leaving it here for educational and archival purposes, there's no point in trying to run it as-is.

Unofficial Magyar Posta Tracker API with Requests

API usage

Two methods make functionality available, they both take a single parameter called number, which is the document number of the package to be tracked. They only differ in that track_item_iter is a generator that yields TrackEntry named tuples, while track_item returns a list of such objects.

CLI usage

The tracking number should be supplied as a command line parameter. Usage example:

$ python mptr.py RT123456789HK
2013-03-26T16:54:00     (HONG KONG)     Küldemény információ:Küldemény felvéve / Item accepted

Disclaimer

This tool was created as a proof of concept and should not be used on the real http://posta.hu/ page without prior consent. As the MIT license states:

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

License

The whole project is available under MIT license.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7 (tested on 2.7.3)
• Requests (Debian/Ubuntu package: python-requests)
• LXML (Debian/Ubuntu package: python-lxml)