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samyun / southwest-price-drop-bot

Bot that watches Southwest flights for price drops.
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Frequent failures to fetch price #48

Open ribordy opened 5 years ago

ribordy commented 5 years ago

I've been experiencing relatively consistent failures to fetch prices, even when routing through a proxy hosted on DigitalOcean. It seems like most attempts to fetch prices result in an error page. I suspect Southwest has changed something in regards to detecting headless browsers, as I'm seeing similar results when trying to view prices (either directly via URL or via manipulating inputs and clicking "Search") via a selenium chromedriver used locally. I'm not sure what the best path forward is here; I'll spend some time over the next few weeks trying to see if there's a workaround, but if the site is detecting headless browsers, it may be the end of the road for this project.

skb3735 commented 5 years ago

I have been seeing the same issues on and off for the past week or so. It cleared up today only for about an hour and now I am getting an error when trying to fetch prices once again.

sandlerben commented 5 years ago

I'm getting consistent errors as far as I can tell. What do you all see for the check job output?

tjs198 commented 5 years ago

I wish I knew how to fix this - such a great program - too bad it's broke.

emersocp commented 5 years ago

FWIW the premium version of "TripIt" has this functionality... It has saved me a lot of money a few times rebooking SWA flights

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aChrisYouKnow commented 5 years ago

Does TripIt work for trips booked with points? Or just dollars?