Make a vessel-tracking map with python -- https://digital-geography.com/vessel-tracking-the-python-way/

sea_vessel_tracker.py

# https://www.marinetraffic.com/

#module import
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US') #as we need to deal with names of monthes later on.
import os

IMOS = [9733612, 9391933, 9312834, 9722302, 9472529, 9288708]

hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
       'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
       'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
       'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
       'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
       'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
items = []
for IMO in IMOS:
    url = r'https://www.vesselfinder.com/en/vessels/VOS-TRAVELLER-IMO-' + str(IMO)
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, None, hdr)
    with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
        the_page = response.read()
    parsed_html = BeautifulSoup(the_page)
    tables = parsed_html.findAll("table")
    for table in tables:
        if table.findParent("table") is None:
            for row in table.findAll('tr'):
                aux = row.findAll('td')
                try:
                    if aux[0].string == "Coordinates":
                        coords = aux[1].string
                    if aux[0].string == "Vessel Name":
                        name = aux[1].string
                    if aux[0].string == "Last report":
                        zeit = datetime.strptime(aux[1].contents[1], ' %b %d, %Y %I:%M %Z')
                except: 
                    print("strange table found")
    coordsSplit = coords.split("/")
    def dms2dd(degrees,direction):
        dd = float(degrees) ;
        if direction == 'S' or direction == 'W':
            dd *= -1
        return dd
    def parse_dms(dms):
        parts = re.split(' ', dms)
        lat = dms2dd(parts[0], parts[1])
        return lat
    lat = parse_dms(coordsSplit[0])
    lng = parse_dms(coordsSplit[1])
    items.append((lat, lng, name, zeit))
    
    filename = 'ship_positions.txt'
if os.path.exists(filename):
    append_write = 'a' # append if already exists
    fw = open(filename,append_write)
else:
    append_write = 'w' # make a new file if not
    fw = open(filename,append_write)
    fw.write("lat;lng;name;time\n")
for item in items:
    fw.write("%3.5f;%3.5f;%s;%s\n" % item)
fw.close()