I started to look at that as well. The published APIs didn't seem to lend themselves to a simple screen-scrape.
Ideas? -- Mark ----------------- Original Message --------------------------- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:38:57 -0400 From: Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fedex command Message-ID: <067d6e51-1c58-4b73-8e84-b32c39e3a...@9srv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The fedex command (like ups and usps) work by scraping the HTML on the public web site. That changes fairly often, and fedex & co need updates each time. It's not terribly difficult, but it's tedious and frequent. I end up tweaking these about every other time I want to track a package. Most (all?) such places provide actual RESTish APIs to use, but those require (generally free) keys/accounts. After my last round of tweaking fedex I took a stab at rewriting it to use those, but stalled. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 203 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://mail.9fans.net/private/9fans/attachments/20120531/9c7ed152/attachment-0001.pgp>
