airport_scraper

A gem for extracting Airport mentions from short snippets of text. Just something I threw together as an experiment that’s turned into an interesting hobby project.

Examples

scraper = AirportScraper.new

pdx1 = scrape.extract_airports("On my flight to Portland. Looking forward to kicking back at home.")
pdx2 = scrape.extract_airports("Landing in PDX now. See you all soon.")

Both pdx1 and pdx2 would be an array with an Airport hash for Portland International Airport

multi = scrape.extract_airports(“On @SouthwestAir #2992 heading from LIT to DAL and CEO Gary Kelly is on board!”) assert_equal [‘LIT’, ‘DAL’], multi.map {|x| x}

Possible Future Work

  • Ways to limit scope to major airports only or specific countries

  • More airport information

  • Geocoding/WOEIDs for airports

  • Ordering of airports in the result array to reflect trip order

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.

  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.

  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but

    bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2009 Jacob Harris. See LICENSE for details.