Tracking Api for Fedex and Ups [Closed]
Is There Any Javascript Api Available for Tracking Fedex and Ups Packages? 1 3 Answers I Googled for Something Like This but Couldn't Find Anything. Then I...
Is there any JavaScript API available for tracking Fedex and UPS packages?
3 Answers
I googled for something like this but couldn't find anything. Then I decided to do it server side in ROR.
Here it is how to get UPS and Fedex xml request and response from their test servers.
For Fedex:
track_no = '111111111111' # This is a test tracking number
# This XML Request body for fedex
xml_req =
"<TrackRequest xmlns='
<Password>YOUR_ACC_PASSWORD</Password></UserCredential></WebAuthenticationDetail><ClientDetail>
<AccountNumber>YOUR_ACC_NUMBER</AccountNumber><MeterNumber>YOUR_ACC_METER_NUMBER</MeterNumber></ClientDetail>
<TransactionDetail><CustomerTransactionId>ActiveShipping</CustomerTransactionId></TransactionDetail>
<Version><ServiceId>trck</ServiceId><Major>3</Major><Intermediate>0</Intermediate><Minor>0</Minor></Version>
<PackageIdentifier><Value>#{track_no}</Value><Type>TRACKING_NUMBER_OR_DOORTAG</Type></PackageIdentifier>
<IncludeDetailedScans>1</IncludeDetailedScans></TrackRequest>"
path = ""
#this url connects to the test server of fedex
# for live server url is:""
url = URI.parse(path)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host,url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
response = http.post(url.path, xml_req)
response_body = response.body
res = response_body.gsub(/<(\/)?.*?\:(.*?)>/, '<\1\2>')
hash = Hash.from_xml(res.to_s)
And that's it! You will get response in hash variable, I converted xml response in to Hash because we can easily use Hash object at our view to display response data.