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Searching for flights using rewards miles. I think United & American used to have APIs that were shut down, so you'd need to scrape account data and flights. I
by dhruvkar 9y ago
Searching for flights using rewards miles.
I think United & American used to have APIs that were shut down, so you'd need to scrape account data and flights. It would work best as a desktop app. Other airlines have APIs, but not sure how deep they are.
Huge pain point, especially when trying to combine different rewards programs.
- ezekg 9y agoI had something similar awhile back but it was eventually shut down by the airline’s legal department. If it’s not provided via a public API, I doubt scraping will turn out any different than my project.
- dhruvkar 9y agoIf it's a desktop app and the crawling is not centralized, I doubt they'd be able to do much about it. Lot of crawl-heavy SEO tools work this way.
- ezekg 9y agoIdk, I had a free open source command line project that scraped flight data and that got shut down. It might have been the particular airline, though, because they specifically disallow scraping from all third-parties including eg Google Flights, SkyScanner, etc.
- dhruvkar 9y agoInteresting. As a consumer, I'd love to see something in that space. I hate paying for most things, but a desktop app that allows me to search for rewards miles would be something I would pay a yearly fee for.