Show HN: I reverse engineered and documented United Airlines in flight API

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30 pointsgreatjack6132 comments

I was on a flight today and was perusing my old repositories on github for something to work on. Low and behold I find this old Gem.

Figure I would share it here

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what did you use it for? and does it still work?

I actually used it for my Zmanim App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wyre.zmani...

This app provides jewish prayer times. I use these apis to get the users precise current location so that we can tell them the prayer times even while flying in a super accurate way.

Fun fact: I hooked into the captain announcements SSE feed and a popup shows up that blocks users from using the app while the captain is talking.

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