Jun 25, 2023, 9:58 pm
Date change hack to view waitlist early -- dead again (website & app)
Apr 24, 2024, 8:28 am
#46
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
Programs: Honors LT Diamond; United 1K; Hertz PC
Posts: 4,316
Not all agents even have access to see the list in advance & what they see may or may not reflect the reality that exists when the list is made public.
Apr 24, 2024, 8:59 am
#47
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,631
The numbnuts wasn't the creator, it's the users that flapped their lips. Given the API change, I'm already being forced to book away from United in some instances.
May 6, 2024, 12:53 pm
#48
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 188
For the last several weeks someone has published a website that used United's flight status API to grab the upgrade list of any flight regardless of date. I'd been sneakily doing it myself for a year or so with a Python script a friend wrote. But it looks like United finally noticed and implemented some security. Their API now rejects queries for flights more than 4 days out.
Alas! it was nice while it lasted. And if anyone from United IT sees this and wants to give me a secret API endpoint I can use, my DMs are open.
Alas! it was nice while it lasted. And if anyone from United IT sees this and wants to give me a secret API endpoint I can use, my DMs are open.