https://jordan-wright.com/blog/tags/web_scraping/Recent content in Web_scraping on Jordan WrightHugoen-usSat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/02/21/web-scraping-hotel-prices-for-fun-and-savings/Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/02/21/web-scraping-hotel-prices-for-fun-and-savings/<img src="https://jordan-wright.com/blog/images/headers/web_scraping.png" alt="" class="pure-img" > <h3 id="introduction">Introduction</h3> <p>During the process of planning a vacation, I came across a nice hotel I wanted to stay at. When looking at some possible dates, I noticed the nightly rate would fluctuate <em>dramatically</em>. This made me question if I was going to wind up paying way more just because I wanted to stay at the hotel on a certain day.</p> <p>Then I considered the alternative - maybe I could scrape the prices every day to find the cheapest nightly rate. Sounded like a job for Python, BeautifulSoup, and some whiskey.</p>