This python script scrapes the fedex website and outputs the package details on giving the package tracking id as input

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FEDEX SCRAPER

Question

Question Code:FEDEX
                    Write a Python script which will scrape the FEDEX website to obtain the tracking details of the given shipment tracking details. The output by the script should be in JSON format.
Input: 744668909687
Expected Output:
{ "tracking no": 744668909687,
"ship date": "Wed 19/07/2017",
"status": "delivered",
"scheduled delivery": "Mon 24/07/2017 16:21"
}
Input: 744668911595
Expected Output:
{ "Tracking no": 744668911595,
"Ship date“: "Fri 21/07/2017",
"Status": "In Transit",
"scheduled delivery": "Sat 29/07/2017 by 18:00"
}

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dependencies

• python 2.7
• requests 2.11.1 (python package)

fedex.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#python2.7
import requests
import datetime


def attach_day(dt):
    # dt format 7/24/2017
    month, day, year = (int(x) for x in dt.split('/'))
    date = datetime.date(year, month, day)
    mdy = dt.split('/')
    # format Mon 24/7/2017
    return date.strftime('%A')[:3] + ' ' + '/'.join([mdy[1], mdy[0], mdy[2]])


def get_standard_time(tm):
    # tm format 4:21 pm
    tm = tm.strip()
    if tm[5:] == 'am':
        return tm
    hour = int(tm.split(':')[0])
    if hour != 12:
        hour = hour + 12
    time = str(hour) + ':' + tm.split(':')[1].split(' ')[0]
    # format time 16:21
    return time


def get_package_details(track_no):
    try:
        header = {
            'Origin': 'https://www.fedex.com',
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
                          'Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36',
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
            'Accept': '*/*',
            'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
            'Referer': 'https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=%s&locale=en_CA&cntry_code=ca_english' % (
                str(track_no)),
            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
            'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6,ta;q=0.4,bn;q=0.2'
        }

        data = {
            'action': 'trackpackages',
            'data': '{"TrackPackagesRequest":{"appType":"WTRK","appDeviceType":"DESKTOP","uniqueKey":"",'
                    '"processingParameters":{},"trackingInfoList":[{"trackNumberInfo":{"trackingNumber":"%s",'
                    '"trackingQualifier":"","trackingCarrier":""}}]}}' % (
                        str(track_no)),
            'format': 'json',
            'locale': 'en_CA',
            'version': '1'
        }

        url = "https://www.fedex.com/trackingCal/track"
        
        print "Sending request ..."

        response = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=header)

        if response.status_code == 200:
            print "response received successfully\n"
        else:
            print "request failed, error code : ",response.status_code
            return

        res_json = response.json()

        if res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['errorList'][0]['message'] != "":
            print res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['errorList'][0]['message']
            # exists the function if package id is wrong
            return

        key_status = res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['keyStatus']

        # changes the scheduled delivery date and time w.r.t status
        if key_status == "In transit":
            schld_deli = attach_day(res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0][
                                        'displayEstDeliveryDt']) + " by " + get_standard_time(
                res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['displayEstDeliveryTm'])
        else:
            schld_deli = attach_day(
                res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['displayActDeliveryDt']) + " " + get_standard_time(
                res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['displayActDeliveryTm'])
 

        result = {
            'tracking_no': int(track_no),
            'ship date': attach_day(res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['displayShipDt']),
            'status': res_json['TrackPackagesResponse']['packageList'][0]['keyStatus'],
            'scheduled delivery': schld_deli
        }

        return result

    except Exception as e:
        print 'Error occurred : \n Error Message: ' + str(e)


# 744668909687, 744668911595
track_id = raw_input('Enter the tracking no : ')
print get_package_details(track_id)

Forked and modified to work with UPS tracking ids. Needed to add an initial cross browser token retrieval.

https://gist.github.com/bertramm/9a96a7c7739727c83084505a9d875d35

https://www.fedex.com/trackingCal/track dead?

I used to get very good performance from the scraper but now it's painstakingly slow - like 4/5 seconds per tracking number. Wonder what changed?

I've noticed a drastic slowdown as well. What used to take ~ 2-3 min now takes ~ 1.5 hours. The '.../trackingCal/...' link throws an error but, the requests seem to resolve - eventually. Would love to find out what's going on and how to remedy, if possible.

From https://www.fedex.com/en-us/tracking.html:

"FedEx is constantly making improvements to our services to enhance the user experience and maintain security of customer data. Effective March 19, 2022, FedEx is making updates to the tracking experience on fedex.com to prevent automated scripts. For more information on the acceptable use of fedex.com, please refer to the fedex.com Terms of Use. Automated scripts on fedex.com will remain prohibited."

Can confirm that nothing works on my end as of 3/19/2022.

Another lead would be to use Selenium and Beautiful Soup. Pointers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18817185/parsing-html-does-not-output-desired-datatracking-info-for-fedex

Thanks. Tried several options but can't get around that 'https://www.fedex.com/trackingCal/track' appears dead. There may be other filters/blocks as well. Very surprised at this (imho, very bad) move since many business customers depend on automated tracking.