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lookup airport by code via wikipedia
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require 'rubygems' | |
require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
def find_airport_info(lookup_iata_code) | |
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_code:_#{lookup_iata_code[0]}")) | |
page.yield_self { |page| page.search('.wikitable tr:contains("%s")' % lookup_iata_code)[0] }.yield_self do |row| | |
airport_name_row = row.children[5] | |
airport_info = { | |
name: airport_name_row&.text, | |
wiki_page_url: (airport_name_row ? 'https://en.wikipedia.org%s' % airport_name_row.children[0]['href'] : nil), | |
iata_code: row.children[1]&.text, | |
location: row.children[7].text | |
} | |
airport_info | |
end | |
end | |
p find_airport_info 'CDG' | |
# {:name=>"Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy Airport)", :wiki_page_url=>"https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport", :iata_code=>"CDG", :location=>"Paris, Île-de-France, France"} |
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