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Build a mobile app to provide flight status by SMS/text message. We can write a server-side Django app that will integrate with Textmarks' API to communicate by SMS.
Tasks:
- Integrate with Textmarks to handle requests for a particular keyword (ie FLIGHTSTATUS)
- Scrape flight status data, parse it, and return to user
Optional:
- Allow user to add a flight in advance, and notify about any changes in flight status
- Store information about flights a user frequently asks about, and use Kayak API to notify on low fares for that flight in the future.
Good idea. You can join the project on Google code at http://code.google.com/p/flightstatus/. The svn repository is there. . It should be fairly simple to get a basic working app, and we can add-on other features if we want.
I've also set up a Doodle to try & find a time in the next couple days when we can all work together:
http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=qb65kp6bd7efzubs.
I've also registered the Textmark "FLIGHTSTATUS", so that any text to 41411 beginning with FLIGHTSTATUS will be routed to our app.
1 year ago
I took a look at the kayak API spec http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/spec.html. It doesn't seem that you can look up flights by the flight number. We may have to scrape the airline sites.
1 year ago
@aneeshk any movement on this? I noticed that the google repository is no longer there.
1 year ago
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I've set up a private subversion repository for us -- if you're new & want to join the project, email me for the info. My email is in my profile. Here are some relevant links:
Textmarks API Documentation: http://www.textmarks.com/dev/
Kayak API: http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/
1 year ago