A simple web tracker for your TNT parcels.
It works by going to TNT's awful web tracking page (which is literally unusable on a mobile device) using a headless browser, and pulling a table of shipment information to display to the screen. A nice little exercise in headless browsing and web scraping in Ruby.
Download. Run bundle install (you'll need a working Ruby install).
Then, from the app folder, run rackup. Go to http://localhost:9292/<your_TNT_tracking_number>, and it'll fetch the result for you.
- Sinatra
- Mechanize (for headless browsing)
- Nokogiri (for parsing and stripping out HTML before it gets put on the page)
- Dokku (for quick pushing to a Digital Ocean instance)
(Truly, I stand on the shoulders of giants)