I wrote a shipping container tracking system for ~7 shipping lines.
Each shipping line offers a tracking service through one of these methods -- email, RSS or website form. Our container numbers are collected into a Google Spreadsheet via our freight forwarders.
Our employees use an antiquated ERP with no API.
The script collects relevant container numbers from the Google spreadsheet, scrapes the update and the scrapes the ERP system to enter the update.
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I wrote a shipping container tracking system for ~7 shipping lines.
Each shipping line offers a tracking service through one of these methods -- email, RSS or website form. Our container numbers are collected into a Google Spreadsheet via our freight forwarders. Our employees use an antiquated ERP with no API.
The script collects relevant container numbers from the Google spreadsheet, scrapes the update and the scrapes the ERP system to enter the update.