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Mar 3, 2015 | 6:17 pm

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Originally Posted by iolairemcfadden

The closest I have is this Hopper pipe,
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.in...aedfc84f62690e

Its built on this URL which is flights from WAS to South America, it uses cached data from other people's searches
http://www.hopper.com/flights/feed?u...month=&stay=+7

I think the URL is XML and not RSS so its harder to work with. One of the Hopper guys helped me get it formatted as it is. I tried to parse out the price and didn't have any luck. Ideally you would parse out the price and put in a upper limit - or even better have some other method to determine the distance and combine that with a price. (Honestly I could create an API or some sort to provide distances, or maybe we could pull it from a Google spreadsheet, I have a database of airport distances at home.) I have not spent much time on this.

If you figure out the price please PM me and let me know.

Thanks. For the price, you can add "&max_price=500" or whatever to the URL string.

Best thing for the distances would be to read them in from the Great Circle Mapper gcmap.com.

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