Jun 13, 2014, 3:18 pm

FlyerTalk Forums Expert How-Tos and Guides

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Note that Chrome recently changed its rules so most users will need to pull scripts from their store to use them.

From sbm12 (available from the Chrome Store or direct download for GreaseMonkey users):

From jasonvr

Easy United One Way Award Search Tool; FT Thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...arch-tool.html

From Darlox:
Note: Both are defunct (no longer maintained by the creators), have known issues on the current site, will not work on the Beta site, and are of marginal usefulness in the $-based RDM era. Use for reference only.

Browser extensions/scripts for United.com

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Nov 3, 2015, 4:05 pm

#31

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I am using v.7.3.4 with success on Chrome.

However, if your search results go to more than one page, nothing shows up on page 2 or any subsequent pages, just on page 1. Also, if you return to page 1 from any subsequent page, the highlighting no longers shows up. I've also found that when you start searching by, say, price (lowest to highest) and get the highlighting, if you then change to, say, search by departure (earliest) the highlighing disappears.

Any chance of fixing these in an update?

Thanks so much!

Dec 7, 2015, 12:15 pm

#32

dogloverjb

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As 1P says it only shows up on the first page. And if you change the fare class to W it doesn't show up at all. The best I could figure was to search to find where R is available and then change class to W and look for those exact flights again to get the price. It helps, but given how bad the new site is, I will be surprised if I am ever able to use my GPUs.

Dec 11, 2015, 1:56 pm

#33

LarryU

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As of yesterday, expert mode v.7.3.4 no longer seems to work in Chrome. Is anyone else having issues as well?

Dec 16, 2015, 4:13 pm

#34

FTstudent

Join Date: Jul 2013

Location: TPA

Programs: UA Gold

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Looks like a change on the UA site has impacted the extension. Some of the functionality is still working, but not everything. The best shortcut of not having to click the "details" link for each flight is no longer working.

Dec 16, 2015, 4:32 pm

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Sorry for the troubles...I'll take a look.

Dec 16, 2015, 5:09 pm

#36

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sbm12

Sorry for the troubles...I'll take a look.

Should be working again now in v7.3.5 which I just pushed to the Chrome store and also to the direct download link for those who use it that way.

Regarding the issues with multi-page results sets, that's going to remain solved for now, mostly because there's not a consistent event in the page load process I can trigger on the way I do on the initial load.

Dec 16, 2015, 7:16 pm

#37

LarryU

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Originally Posted by sbm12

Thanks for fixing this so quickly! ^

Dec 17, 2015, 8:39 am

#38

FTstudent

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Awesome. Thanks!

Dec 22, 2015, 9:09 am

#39

TheAJ

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Helpful tool, thank you.

Jan 16, 2016, 12:24 pm

#40

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I have a question regarding upgrades and the chrome browser plugins

I use the plugins and get the red letter in the search blocks on the United website, but they seem to only work on the first page and are kind of "Laggy"

Now, they have a search option for only upgrade able flights. Is this essentially the same as searching for R availability?

Jan 20, 2016, 12:40 pm

#41

FTstudent

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I think I'm seeing a bug. Extension is showing RN3 R3, but details data does not agree. Details show RN0 R0.

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Jan 20, 2016, 2:40 pm

#42

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FTstudent

I think I'm seeing a bug. Extension is showing RN3 R3, but details data does not agree. Details show RN0 R0.

Please PM me the specific search parameters you're using so I can try to reproduce and figure out what's going on.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hipplewm

I use the plugins and get the red letter in the search blocks on the United website, but they seem to only work on the first page and are kind of "Laggy"

Yeah. Because they trigger when the flex calendar atop the page finally loads. That doesn't reload on the other pages so it doesn't know to retry. And that doesn't load immediately hence the lag. To get the data the script simulates clicking on the "details" link twice for each flight option, expanding it to get the data and then collapsing it to keep as many flights as possible visible. I tried a few options to fix the issues with the extra pages but none was satisfactory IMO.

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Originally Posted by Hipplewm

Now, they have a search option for only upgrade able flights. Is this essentially the same as searching for R availability?

If all you care about is R then yes, it is very, very similar.