flyspy: mashup camp demos, night one.

The single best demo of mashup camp on Sunday night was a tool by flyspy that lets you scope out a month's worth of fares between city pairs (as long as one of those cities is MSP and the other one is fairly big) at a single glance. Click through for a bit of a screenshot. This would be hours of clicking on Orbitz or NWA.COM but was a single click.

Robert Metcalf (not the ethernet inventor) asked not to blog the URL, since it's only running on a single server. It's not much use yet unless you want to fly to or get out of Minneapolis. That said, it's the single most promising bit of travel technology I've seen recently.

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Comments

[bob Kuehne]

hi ed - so do you have any ideas how he queried the airline db? or was it raw form fill/scrape? bob

[Edward]

He started with raw form fill/scrape, and then when there were too many queries the airline DB shut him down. Next step was to get the semi-raw data in bulk from NWA (there's an interface layer a la what Sabre has). That interface costs $.

I think if you weren't doing this wholesale for other people you could build one just for yourself and not trigger the rejections.

[Vidar Hokstad]

Edward,
Sorry about the repeated trackbacks on your post from Edgeio. We've found and hopefully fixed the bug that caused it.

[Edward Vielmetti]

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