Re:A flight search engine that combines flights from differe...
by tomhoward on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:37PM
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We built the company from the start by scraping low cost airlines, and always did a lot of it.
It just a very big undertaking - building all the scrapers, maintaining them (every time any detail of an airline website changed), getting around anti-scraping measures, running servers, and even then your data is out of date as soon as a flight’s price or availability changes.
It just a very big undertaking - building all the scrapers, maintaining them (every time any detail of an airline website changed), getting around anti-scraping measures, running servers, and even then your data is out of date as soon as a flight’s price or availability changes.