AISExplorer

AISExplorer can be used to locate vessels or to scrape all vessel in an specific AREA. Also free proxies can be used for scraping. Proxies will be scraped from https://www.sslproxies.org/, tested and used. Also Fallback are implemented

Installation

pip install aisexplorer

Usage

Find vessel by MMIS

from aisexplorer.AIS import AIS

AIS().get_location(211281610)

Find vessels in Area

maximum 500 vessels

from aisexplorer.AIS import AIS

AIS(return_df= True).get_area_data("EMED")

Output is limited to 500 rows. Areas can be found here

Get Table via URL

from aisexplorer.AIS import AIS

AIS(return_df = True).get_data_by_url("https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/data/?asset_type=vessels&columns=time_of_latest_position:desc,flag,shipname,photo,recognized_next_port,reported_eta,reported_destination,current_port,imo,ship_type,show_on_live_map,area,lat_of_latest_position,lon_of_latest_position,speed,length,width&area_in|in|West%20Mediterranean,East%20Mediterranean|area_in=WMED,EMED&time_of_latest_position_between|gte|time_of_latest_position_between=60,NaN")

Use Proxies

from aisexplorer.AIS import AIS

AIS(return_df = True, Proxy = True).get_data_by_url("https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/data/?asset_type=vessels&columns=time_of_latest_position:desc,flag,shipname,photo,recognized_next_port,reported_eta,reported_destination,current_port,imo,ship_type,show_on_live_map,area,lat_of_latest_position,lon_of_latest_position,speed,length,width&area_in|in|West%20Mediterranean,East%20Mediterranean|area_in=WMED,EMED&time_of_latest_position_between|gte|time_of_latest_position_between=60,NaN")

Next Steps

• Add more potential proxy lists
• Find a way to change the number of retrys
• Reset new filters

Changelog

2021-12-10

• Added Fallback if proxy has died
• Added get data by url
• Added Check if requests was filtered by cloudflare

2021-12-5

• Added Filters early stage
• Added Retry Options
• Added some new exceptions

2021-11-27

• Added Proxy Option