Bridge request: FedEx package tracking

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Bridge request

General information

I would like an RSS bridge to the FedEx website, such that I could enter a tracking number and the bridge would present the current status of the shipment as an RSS feed.

• Host URI for the bridge (i.e. https://github.com): https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=track&cntry_code=[ country code ]&language=[ language code ]&tracknumbers=[15 digit number]&action=track

• Which information would you like to see?

  • Whether or not the package has shipped ("IN TRANSIT").
  • Where the package is at ("Departed FedEx Location [city], [state abbreviation]").
  • Projected delivery date/time ("Scheduled delivery: [day of week] mm/dd/yyyy by [human-friendly time, i.e., "end of day"]").
  • Travel history ("[date] [time] [location] [status]")
  • URL of package being tracked.

• How should the information be displayed/formatted? Straight up simple - take the nicely formatted stuff on the FedEx website and pack it into an article, one line at a time.

• Which of the following parameters do you expect?

  • [X] Title
  • [X] URI (link to the original article)
  • [ ] Author
  • [X] Timestamp
  • [X] Content (the content of the article)
  • [X] Enclosures (Status image of the package en route?)
  • [ ] Categories (categories, tags, etc...)

Options

• [X] Load full articles
  • Cache articles (articles are stored in a local cache on first request): no
• [X] Balance requests (RSS-Bridge uses cached versions to reduce bandwidth usage)
  • Timeout (default = 5 minutes, max = 24 hours): 5 minutes

[virtadpt]

Updated with specifics now that FedEx has filled out my shipping page with information.

[dvikan]

is this still relevant? could use en example url

[dvikan]

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