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Mar 27, 2021 | 12:06 pm

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Originally Posted by flyerfirsts

I suppose it would be too tedious a task for a crawler bot given how slow the airline websites are, but I'm surprised nobody has tried. I guess there just isn't enough of a market for the expense.

There was one, but it seems as if it is no longer working:

Flightplan: How to search a year of award inventory

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Originally Posted by jd20

TLDR: Flightplan is a set of command-line tools I built to scrape airline award inventory, and then display it in a fancy web UI. It's free, cross-platform, and open-source. You download and run it on your own machine. If you know how to program JavaScript, you can also use it as a library to write your own scraping scripts. Below is a condensed write-up of why I created it, and how it works. You can read the full version here: Flightplan: A new way to research flight awards

New Website: https://www.flightplantool.com

Github Repo: https://github.com/flightplan-tool/flightplan

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtiucIPOxs

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