Instructions for developer:
This scraper is to find the value of vehicle rental at 7 day, 14 day and 21 day hires for selected vehicles on selected sites
Note - these are
**NOT**
the real websites to crawl, so do not bid until you find out the name of the sites from me via private message.
Start Location
: For form submission - the pickup location of the vehicle
End Location
: For form submission - the dropoff location of the vehicle
Select Vehicle
: Can select up to 4 cars - we can type the name of the vehicles we want to search (The name is unique; eg not Ford Fairlane, not 'sedan')
Select Website
: Can select up to 4 websites to crawl - these will contain the selected vehicles above
Email Address
: The final report is an excel spreadsheet sent to this email address.
Submit:
This is where you work your Regex skills. You crawl the selected sites:
- grab the rates for a selected vehicle
- go the selected website
- get 7,14,21 day hire rates at the first of each month for the select vehicle for selected location
- get the rates for either the next 12 months after the current month, see
spreadsheet
- repeat the steps for the next selected vehicle and next selected site
- the output should be in the format of the excel spreadsheet
here
.
- the output is emailed to the address above
Month Intervals
3 months
6 months
12 months
Start Location
Sydney
Brisbane
Melbourne
End Location
Sydney
Brisbane
Melbourne
Select Vehicles Below for report
select vehicle
select website
website 1
website 2
website 3
website 4
email report