This document presents the description and implementation of the Data from Online Travel Agencies project in Python (DOTApy)1. DOTApy was born with the idea of collecting a large amount of data directly from an Online Travel Agencies (OTA) and subsequently analyzing it. The extrapolated information regards the hotel infrastructures and their price over a certain period of time.Subsequently, by studying the data collected, it is possible to highlight the changes for the various types of infrastructure during the pre-established period. The heart of the project is the development in Python of the software that allows the automatic extraction of the collected data.

DotaPy: Using Python Selenium to Extract Information and Prices Trends from Online Travel Agencies

A Marchetti;A Lo Duca
2020

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This document presents the description and implementation of the Data from Online Travel Agencies project in Python (DOTApy)1. DOTApy was born with the idea of collecting a large amount of data directly from an Online Travel Agencies (OTA) and subsequently analyzing it. The extrapolated information regards the hotel infrastructures and their price over a certain period of time.Subsequently, by studying the data collected, it is possible to highlight the changes for the various types of infrastructure during the pre-established period. The heart of the project is the development in Python of the software that allows the automatic extraction of the collected data.
2020
Istituto di informatica e telematica - IIT
Data collection
Online Travel Agencies
tourism
web scraping
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