Show HN: Expose Southwest Rates on Google Flights

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6 points·tejasmanohar··5 comments

Maker here! I've wanted to see Southwest rates on Google Flights for a very long time, but they've never been there. Last week, my friend and I decided to take matters into our own hands and make them available via a chrome extension.

It was both fun technically-- intercepting Southwest requests & scraping data out of an iframe-- and even more fun to poke around all the deals once it worked. Hope y'all find it useful!

Southwest usually has good deals when traveling from SF to Chicago (MDW). Having that directly wthin Google Flights is pretty handy!

I wonder how Southwest feels about this? Must be a reason they're not shown in Google Flights today.

Southwest doesn't like the apples:oranges comparison of them vs other airlines / sorting primarily on price like most online travel sites do. This is because they offer other amenities that are not common for airlines, like 2 free checked bags & no cancellation/change fees.

We reflect these effectively and basically give them a big ad on the top of Google Flights so I'm hoping SW will be OK with it :)

How do I use it on mobile? It gives me a modal to enter my email address whenever I click on the button.

Ah yes, chrome extensions aren't on mobile so we just let you enter your email to get an email to install it when on desktop. You can also use the following link when on desktop :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/book-with-carry/me...

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