Find fedex tracking id by sender reference

[Bobspadger]

Hi

Is there a way with this library to find tracking numbers from our account / reference number ?

We have several places of label creation etc (some online) and would like to recover the tracking ID's to our back office system.

Is this possible ?

Thanks

Alex

[Bobspadger]

Answered own question:

track.SelectionDetails.PackageIdentifier.Type = 'SHIPPER_REFERENCE'

[yanpozka]

Hello @Bobspadger, sorry for bother you, but you're the only person that I've found in the whole internet who is using a reference number to get the tracking number; were you able to make it work ??

Also I found here other 2 reference constants:
CUSTOMER_REFERENCE and FREE_FORM_REFERENCE

Do you know the difference? May you copy here how are you building the FedexTrackRequest object ?

A ton of thanks in advance

[Bobspadger]

@yanpozka I think I did, I'm trying to remember which of my services I put this into, I'll try to find it.

[Bobspadger]

@yanpozka Here is my quick proof of concept code, by sending in our shipping references (Dxxxx) I can recover the Fedex tracking id.

It seems to work 'ok'

# Get items from our DB, if it has a tracking ID and is NOT delivered - track.
# If it has no tracking ID - use the DNOTE and write the tracking ID back
import pymysql
import logging
import sys
from fedex.config import FedexConfig
from fedex.services.track_service import FedexTrackRequest
CONFIG_OBJ = FedexConfig(key='xxxxxxxxx',
                         password='xxxxxxxxx',
                         account_number='xxxxxxxxxx',
                         meter_number='xxxxxxxxx'
                         )

logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO)
customer_transaction_id = "*** TrackService Request v10 using Python ***"  # Optional transaction_id
# create tracking object - reuse it for the life of the script.
track = FedexTrackRequest(CONFIG_OBJ, customer_transaction_id=customer_transaction_id)

list_of_dnotes = ['D1146996',
                  'D1150735',
                  'D1151413',
                  'D1151637',
                  'D1152997',
                  'D1156228',
                  'D1160909',
                  'D1162593',
                  'D1163081',
                  'D1163865',
                  'D1164011',
                  'D1164740',
                  'D1165059',
                  'D1166083',
                  'D1166238',
                  'D1165608',
                  'D1167589']



def recover_fedex_tracking_id(dnote):
    # track.SelectionDetails.PackageIdentifier.Value = '671020973012'
    track.SelectionDetails.PackageIdentifier.Value = dnote

    #SHIPPER_REFERENCE
    # track.SelectionDetails.PackageIdentifier.Type = 'TRACKING_NUMBER_OR_DOORTAG'
    track.SelectionDetails.PackageIdentifier.Type = 'SHIPPER_REFERENCE'
    track.SelectionDetails.ShipmentAccountNumber = 'xxxxxxxxx'
    track.send_request()
    # print(track.response)
    return track.response


for delivery_note in list_of_dnotes:
    tracking_response = recover_fedex_tracking_id(delivery_note)
    try:
        print(tracking_response.CompletedTrackDetails[0].TrackDetails[0].TrackingNumber)
    except KeyError:
        print('thats not there!')

[yanpozka]

@Bobspadger thanks a lot for your help. I really appreciate your answer and your full example, it helps!! I'll try following your example. Thank you !!

I must say you save my life !! it does work !!

[johnmudd]

@Bobspadger I appreciate your example. I just tried it for one of my packages (shipped a month ago) and got the following.

Message = "This tracking number cannot be found. Please check the number or contact the sender."

I was able to track this package via the fedex.com web page. But I provided the ship date on the web page.

I retried using Python by setting track.SelectionDetails.ShipDate but I got the following.

suds.TypeNotFound: Type not found: 'ShipDate'

Any suggestion?

[johnmudd]

Solved it.

track.SelectionDetails.ShipDateRangeBegin = '2017-05-09'
track.SelectionDetails.ShipDateRangeEnd = '2017-05-09'

[Bobspadger]

@johnmudd glad to be of service :-)