Holiday Price Scraper

About

The holiday price scraper app is a Spring Boot application which runs as a FAAS. The service scraps holiday prices for stored search criteria and alerts receipts to price changes.

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Example Email

Supported websites

The following websites can be scrapped for prices

• First Choice
• TUI < Not Yet Supported, Planned in Next Revision >

Supported Environments

• Standalone Spring Boot App
• AMS Lambda
• Azure Functions < Not Yet Supported, Planned in Next Revision >

Running the application

Regardless of the run environment, all deployments require the following settings

imgurClientId and imgurClientSecret must be set as environment variables

imgurClientId=<your imgur client ID>
imgurClientSecret=<your imgur client secret>

To run as a standalone application

When running standalone, the persistence of the criteria and search results are stored in the local filesystem, there are several required properties needed to support this

mailserverUser=<your mail server username>
mailserverPassword=<your mail server password>
# local.storage.folder.path is optional, will default to OS's temporary folder path
local.storage.folder.path=<location where criteria and results will be persisted>

To run the application standalone, you must set the maven profile to boot

To run as a AWS Lambda Function

To run as function in AWS lambda, you must select Java 8 as the "Function Code" runtime value, for the "Handler" values you must set this to com.daledev.holidaypricescrapper.function.PriceCheckAwsHandler. The jar which you upload must be built with the maven profile aws.