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Old Nov 11, 2014, 2:41 am
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Where does the KVS tool get its data and is KVS authorized to provide this data in the manner it is presented?

The tool is known to access a variety of web sites, many in a manner that is not authorized. Please see the next section of this Wiki for a list of sites believed to be accessed and their data access policies (where known).

Additionally, under some conditions the tool appears to access sites via a KVS-operated back end. This means that the tool is not just a 'web browser' that runs via a user's machine. No detailed public information is available about how this works or whether any of this back-end access is authorized.

Websites KVS Accesses and their relevant Terms of Use

http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...verrideServlet
http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...PreviewServlet
https://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConli...verrideServlet
https://www.aircanada.com
Terms of Use:
http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/legal/notice.html
Use of our web site for any other purpose, including any commercial use or purpose, is expressly prohibited.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that, in using or accessing our website, you shall not commit or participate in any of the following acts or actions, each of which is expressly prohibited under this User Agreement:
directly or indirectly, use or access, or encourage, solicit, permit, facilitate, aid, assist or abet, including, but not limited to, the selling, licensing, distribution or provision to any person of any means that permit, the use or access, or agree to provide the use or access, of our website through any manual process or any automatic, electronic or technical device, including but not limited to automated scripts, robots, crawls, screen scrapers, web "bots", deep-links, indexes, spiders, click-spams, macro programs, or any other device, program, software, system, algorithm, methodology or technology, now known or hereinafter discovered, that performs the same or a similar function, in order to, without limitation: "data mine"; "screen scrape"; data process; access, extract, copy, distribute, aggregate or acquire information; generate impressions or clicks; input or store information; search or generate searches; or manipulate or monitor any portion or content of our website;

http://data.flight24.com/flights/
Terms of Use:
http://www.flightradar24.com/terms-and-conditions
Websites information and Services are provided for personal, non-commercial use only. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Flightradar24s web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

Modify or copy the materials;
Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Flightradar24's web site;
Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
Transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Flightradar24 at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

http://data.seatexpert.com/tpi/find.php
Terms of Use:

http://plane.lan.com/cgi-bin/recibo_...bo_eticket.cgi
Terms of Use:
http://www.lan.com/en_us/sitio_perso...-use/about-us/
You may use the information on our site solely for non-commercial purposes, and any use or modification of the website contents is not permitted.

http://reservations.usairways.com/Default.aspx
Terms of Use:
http://reservations.usairways.com/en-US/aboutus/site_usage_policy.html
Content may be used for non-commercial personal use only, and you agree not to modify, copy, transmit, distribute, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise transfer any information, software, products or services obtained from the Site without prior written permission from US Airways. You agree not to use any automatic device, manual process, or scraping to monitor or copy the Site or the content contained therein for any purpose without US Airways prior written permission. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site.

https://book.austrian.com/app/fb.fly
Terms of Use:
http://www.austrian.com/Info/LegalRegulations/WebsiteTerms.aspx?sc_lang=en&cc=AT
2. Proprietary rights
All trademark rights, copyrights, database rights and other intellectual property rights to the contents of the Austrian-website, (as well as the organization and layout of the website), together with the underlying software code rest, either with Austrian or with its licensors. You may not, either in whole or in part, copy, modify, distribute or use or reproduce in other form contents of the Austrian-website, or the underlying software code, without the prior written consent of Austrian.

3. Permissible use
All Austrian-website online services (including the booking machine) are provided solely for the purpose of enabling you to check the availability of goods or services relating to your journey (the timetable, for example), make legitimate reservations, use our online check-in or transact other business with suppliers. You may only use the website in accordance with these terms and conditions and for the legally permitted purposes described above. In particular, you indicate your agreement to the following:
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3.5 You may not reproduce information from the Austrian-website for commercial purposes. This also includes providing prices for Austrian flights on another website or another online server. In particular you may not copy, distribute, in other way use or reproduce discarded content from the Austrian-website with the help of 'robots', other search machine technologies or through other automatic mechanisms.

https://booking.qatarairways.com/qri...Booking.action
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https://book.tam.com.br/TAM/dyn/air/...ng/retrievePNR
Terms of Use:

https://classic.checkmytrip.com/plne...ievePNR.action
Terms of Use:
(D) not to use any automated system or software to extract data from the Application, Documents or Services for commercial purposes (such as screen scraping);

https://en.aegeanair.com
Terms of Use:

https://eservice.evaair.com
Terms of Use:

https://flymas.mobi/itravel/viewBooking.xhtml
Terms of Use:

https://fly.rj.com/MyBookings/Home/EN/Default.aspx
Terms of Use:

http://skyvector.com/airport/
Terms of Use:

https://m.aeroflot.ru/b/info/pnr/load
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https://mm.alitalia.com/GB_EN/booking/apvsearch.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://mobile1.emirates.com/myb/review.xhtml
Terms of Use:

https://myb.s7.ru/getMyBooking.action
Terms of Use:

https://mytripandmore.com/Itinerary.aspx
Terms of Use:
https://mytripandmore.com/TermsAndConditions.aspx
Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not:
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https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWe...yICAOAction.do
Terms of Use:

https://prefunds.aa.com/refunds/receipt
https://www.aa.com/reservation/findReservationSubmit.do
Terms of Use:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/footer/siteUsage.jsp
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D. American Airlines owns or uses by permission all software contained on the Site, including without limitation all HTML code and Active X controls. Copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions protect this software. The law expressly prohibits any modification, redistribution, or reproduction of the software, and such actions could result in severe civil and criminal penalties. American Airlines will seek and support prosecuting violators to the maximum extent possible.
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https://raw.github.com/opentraveldat...i_airlines.csv
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https://secure.jetairways.com/PlatformID/Identify.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://tickets.airtran.com/SeatAvailability.aspx
Terms of Use:
http://www.southwest.com/html/about-...ons/index.html
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You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, click spam, macro programs, Internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of the Southwest Airlines sites or Company information.
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https://wftc3.e-travel.com
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https://wtrweb.worldtracer.aero/WorldTracerWeb/pax.do
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https://www121.jal.co.jp/JmbWeb/JR/S...MileCalc_en.do
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https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/ETDisplay.tk
https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/getPnr.tk
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https://www.airberlin.com/en-DE/cockpit
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https://www.airfrance.fr/cgi-bin/AF/...chPnrAction.do
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https://www.alaskaair.com/booking/reservationlookup
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https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
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https://www.britishairways.com/trave...g/public/en_gb
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https://www.checkmytrip.com/CMTSERVLET
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https://www.checkmytrip.com/cmt/apf/...&SITE=NCMTNCMT
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https://www.delta.com/mytrips/findPnr.action
http://www.delta.com/ism/SeatMapDisplay.action
http://www.delta.com/shared/components/blank.jsp
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https://www.finnair.com
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https://www.flysas.com
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https://www.iberia.com/web/retrievePNR.do
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https://www.lot.com
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https://www.lufthansa.com
Terms of Use:
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https://www.routehappy.com/
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https://www.swiss.com
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https://www.tripforyou.net/t4u/PTopAction.do
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https://www.tripple.jp
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https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...n/default.aspx
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https://www.viewtrip.com/GetItin.aspx
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https://www.virginamerica.com/book/ow/a1/
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https://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/g...ndBooking.next
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https://www.virtuallythere.com/new/reservations.html
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http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/
Terms of Use:

http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi
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http://www.airframes.org/fleet/
Terms of Use:

http://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_H...oking-now.html
Terms of Use:

http://www.flightradar24.com/
Terms of Use:

http://www.FlightStats.com/go/Flight...ingByFlight.do
http://www.FlightStats.com/go/Flight...tusByFlight.do
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http://www.flightview.com/TravelTool...eryResults.asp
http://www.flightview.com/TravelTools/viewairport.asp
Terms of Use:

http://www.gcmap.com/airport/
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui
Terms of Use:
http://www.gcmap.com/faq/using
Q: May I use the Great Circle Mapper's maps on my web page?
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A: Please write to Karl L. Swartz regarding terms for commercial use of the maps.

http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pa...line-list.aspx
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http://www.iata.org/Pages/terms.aspx
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http://www.kenya-airways.com/kqbook.aspx
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http://www.seatexpert.com/multiple_results.php
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 1:23 pm
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What you all guys tend to forget is that KVS is getting the data from somewhere. How they get it (paying for it vs. scraping it) is a different story, but you all must know that from where the data comes from can change from time to time.

Has anyone ever contacted Sabre (getthere) or a big data provider yourself? Cause then you would now how much 1 request (pull fare rules, pull base fare names, ...) really costs and there would be NO WAY of getting that data through kvs with such a low yearly fee!
Award search of course is a total different story, cause everyone is using their own credentials and pulling the data directly from the airline BUT if KVS would have to get the data directly from the airline (which would be pretty impossible) it would also cost MUCH more.
Try to contact Star Alliance and ask for an api to get all their award availability for "free" or a yearly fee of <200$, you will fail

So KVS needs to get the data from free sources. Of course nothing onine is free, so KVS has to use grey areas to get the fare / availability data from somewhere without paying for it cause then you would all go bankcrupt by the heavy membership fees
So the only possible way is screenscraping.
Of course websites like flightstats doesn't like it that their data gets pulled automatically cause they also have to pay fees for providing that data.
Long story short, the source changes from time to time where the data comes from and at some point its possible that there is no way of getting the fare data anymore and then we would have to accept it.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 1:32 pm
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Originally Posted by fuyao
Has anyone ever contacted Sabre (getthere) or a big data provider yourself? Cause then you would now how much 1 request (pull fare rules, pull base fare names, ...) really costs and there would be NO WAY of getting that data through kvs with such a low yearly fee!
ExpertFlyer does..
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ExpertFlyer does..
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 1:40 pm
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Originally Posted by fuyao
Has anyone ever contacted Sabre (getthere) or a big data provider yourself? Cause then you would now how much 1 request (pull fare rules, pull base fare names, ...) really costs and there would be NO WAY of getting that data through kvs with such a low yearly fee!
Other tools manage it just fine for a monthly price in the same ballpark.

KVS is pulling the fares from somewhere that is paying for Sabre, someone is subsidising your use of KVS, most likely unknowingly.

at some point its possible that there is no way of getting the fare data anymore and then we would have to accept it.
Or you could subscribe to alternative systems that get the data legitimately and charge a similar figure, and doesn't make a profit off reselling what others are giving for free.

It doesn't cost a lot to get flight availability, because flightstats were happy providing it for the limited income of showing a few adverts. Another tool on this forum gets you prices, seating charts, etc. etc from GDS for a similar price to KVS. KVS rather pocket your money themselves while conning many people into believing they're paying for legitimate sources of data (not ones where you have to sign up and break terms of use of sites)
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by fuyao
Has anyone ever contacted Sabre (getthere) or a big data provider yourself? Cause then you would now how much 1 request (pull fare rules, pull base fare names, ...) really costs and there would be NO WAY of getting that data through kvs with such a low yearly fee!
Don't know how much GDS costs per request, but Timatic has a price list:http://www.timaticweb2.com/terms
13 eurocents per query or so.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 2:21 pm
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Was kindly upgraded to diamond, so problem solved.

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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 3:03 pm
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Originally Posted by nux
ExpertFlyer does..
But KVS has an interface advantage in my opinion (until larger scale is required, then it sucks too).

Solution? KVS scrapes EF.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 3:17 pm
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I'll add fares is down again.
It was there in 7.5.
We were told it would be fixed quickly.
7.6 came out and it was working for an hour
7.6.1 is is gone again with no mention.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 3:21 pm
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Originally Posted by paulwuk
Other tools manage it just fine for a monthly price in the same ballpark.

KVS is pulling the fares from somewhere that is paying for Sabre, someone is subsidising your use of KVS, most likely unknowingly.



Or you could subscribe to alternative systems that get the data legitimately and charge a similar figure, and doesn't make a profit off reselling what others are giving for free.

It doesn't cost a lot to get flight availability, because flightstats were happy providing it for the limited income of showing a few adverts. Another tool on this forum gets you prices, seating charts, etc. etc from GDS for a similar price to KVS. KVS rather pocket your money themselves while conning many people into believing they're paying for legitimate sources of data (not ones where you have to sign up and break terms of use of sites)
Technically KVS isn't pulling anything (besides routing rules and a couple other obscure methods). You are pulling it directly to your computer, so depending on your perspective you are the guilty party.

Now that said, it isn't as simple as getting a legitimate license and access. It would then need to be hosted which I am guessing KVS has nowhere near the server capacity to support considering the routing rules search bombs out 90% of the time and that does route to KVS servers.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 5:12 pm
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Originally Posted by zozeppelin
But KVS has an interface advantage in my opinion (until larger scale is required, then it sucks too).

Solution? KVS scrapes EF.
+1

EF told me that they oppose to this idea. But I really don't mind paying for both EF and KVS to get the legit data from EF but the better interface of KVS.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 6:00 pm
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I really don't mind paying for both EF and KVS
A lot of us wouldn't mind paying for both again, as we did in the past, if KVS did what it (sometimes) does reliably and without requiring users to tap into dodgy data sources.
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Old Nov 2, 2014 | 7:08 pm
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Originally Posted by zozeppelin
Now that said, it isn't as simple as getting a legitimate license and access. It would then need to be hosted which I am guessing KVS has nowhere near the server capacity to support considering the routing rules search bombs out 90% of the time and that does route to KVS servers.
The routing rules search seems to be rate limited. Once every 60 seconds or so. Other than that, it seems to work fine for me.
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Old Nov 3, 2014 | 12:40 am
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The routing rules search seems to be rate limited. Once every 60 seconds or so. Other than that, it seems to work fine for me.
That goes to KVS's server and its data source is obscured. Perhaps KVS has to pay for it and that's why it's rate limited...
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Old Nov 3, 2014 | 2:45 am
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Originally Posted by angatol
Don't know how much GDS costs per request, but Timatic has a price list:http://www.timaticweb2.com/terms
13 eurocents per query or so.
Usually its below 5 cents through the GDS but even then its expensive.
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Old Nov 3, 2014 | 2:47 am
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Originally Posted by nux
ExpertFlyer does..
Honestly, I don't know how EF does it, cause their membership fee is also really low but they must request a TON of data from their data provider.
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