Date change hack to view waitlist early -- dead again (website & app)
#46
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
Programs: Honors LT Diamond; United 1K; Hertz PC
Posts: 4,363
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.
#47
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 4,666
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.
#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.