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Thanks!!! I was feeling pretty bummed after the comments.
Don't be bummed. Even though I personally wouldn't use this (my life is too short to fly Southwest if I don't have to) I think it's great that you made something and are sharing with a community of people who are making things.
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Thanks!!! I was feeling pretty bummed after the comments.
Don't feel bummed this is pretty nifty. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but you actually made it happen. :) The only thing I was going to do different is then text me that the check in occurred and tell me what the boarding number is. It's just an FYI but would make me feel better. (And since I work for Twilio, obviously I was going to use that. :) )
Thanks again!
I assume this is for those of you too cheap to spend the $10 to have this done by Southwest. Pay for service that's worth it.
Very cool! Can you somehow make sure, I don't have to put in all this information? For eg. if I forward the confirmation email to an "automatic checkin email id", can you pick up the relevant information and automatically check me in.
Thanks!! Awesome idea - totally - do you think people would be okay forwarding their itinerary?
With all the talk of you probably getting a C&D shortly, the real coup would be to release the code that does it for free. Can't imagine they can do much against that.
Very nice! I wrote a simple python script with urllib2 and beautifulsoup to do the same thing a while back. When I was making it I noticed that the southwest servers would sometimes report slightly different times in the response headers (I'm assuming because of load balancing or something). To deal with this, I had the script start polling the check in page 5 minutes before and steadily increase the rate as time wen…
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that what this discussion needs is a "Hey - thanks for making this."
Yeah, nice job on this Nikil- very cool implementation. HN has been becoming increasingly cynical as of late- don't let it get to you.
Southwest sues people who monetize this kind of product -- see a 2012 example at http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/03/02/Southwest-... or a 2007 example at http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm .
I'm not making money off of it. I just built it for myself and thought I would share
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Thanks!!! I was feeling pretty bummed after the comments.
I'm on the Southwest A-List right now, but that expires in December so I'm definitely going to be using this next year. I was actually thinking about doing something like this myself but knowing me I never would have actually done it, so THANK YOU. Just don't mention how you can add the "A-List" tag to your boarding pass to get through the fly-by lane.
Thanks for the appreciation :) - really cool to see people enjoy this!