All this is no problem at all in most cases and there are quite a few applications and services that already do that. There are very few things that cannot be simulated if you know what you're doing.


Sorry, not interested. Like others said before... scriptlance, elance or getafreelancer... pay someone $50... voila :)

Is this what you want?

If you enter everything on the GET url (could be done easily in javascript, or preload first, last, or confnum, it'll automagically go to SouthWest). I couldn't debug further; I haven't used SouthWest in years.

a) You're correct in this; the whole fucking thing is stateless. There's no point in a DB for something as throwaway as this.

As far as the second statement, you're also way off base. My 'shitty' version doesn't bother with any parsing, emailing success, etc. It just prints out the page that Baddog wanted to the screen.

Ya know what? That works, too.

http://www.download.com/AutoMate/300...-10707693.html

AutoMate - rock and roll

So, anybody got a working confirmation number, or what? :upsidedow

15 minutes. It's also getting removed in 15 minutes.

I do, but you can't check in until 24 hours ahead of time, which means the next time will be Tuesday evening

I have a couple similar scripts that run weekly and monthly on my accounts.
It's not easy for your typical script kiddie who has never read a single programming
book or taken a single class, but for a qualified professional it's pretty easy.
My own scripts do Washington Mutual Bank, Compass Bank, ePassporte, and
Linkpoint. The scripts have to get the transaction history for our profit sharing plan.

There are a lot of script kiddies posting what they can do with their level
of knowledge and that's cool. I've been a full time professional web
programmer for ten years now so I've done similar things several times.
For one airline it shouldn't take more than about an hour or two.
There are a couple of Perl modules made just for this type of thing
which make it pretty easy. In other words, $200 to [email protected]. :)


For whoever said you don't need a database, but you use a flat file, go read
"Databases For Dummies" or something before posting again please.
A flat file is the most common type of database. Not all databases are
handled by relational database management systems.

For the person who said it can't be done by a program, what do you think
your web browser is? Anything you can do with your browser is being done
by a program since the browser IS a program. In both cases a human tells
the program what to do. The only difference between the normal way of doing
it with a browser and what baddog wants is that baddog wants the program
to wait several hours before carrying out the instructions. That's no big deal.

Hit me up; people were fucking with it so I moved it.

I wasn't quoting you, doofus. That was MY statement.

you don't even have to a programmer to make that...

you can set up a job using something like http://www.kapow.net/ and define input parameters.

wondering the same thing...

ding ding ding we have a winner

omg my wrists hurt ;p

and you're still doing $200 dollar gigs ? :thumbsup

goodgirl's 15 year old son figured it out.

Thanks guys.

www.checkinsooner.com

:thumbsup

and this one is FREE
http://www.planefast.com/

I wonder how long before they have an injunction filed against them . . . will have to try it for my flight back as I doubt the 15yr old will have the final step done.

I will have to see if this script beats their staff.

You'll find the answer to that question in "Programming for Dummies".
Read it some time, or some other book, if you intend to go around telling
programmers how to do their jobs.

Seriously, I'm not on any pedestal. I talk to people all the time who know WAY
more than I do - Ralf Engelschall, Vint Cerf, lots of people. Out of all the thousands
of programmers working on the Apache code, for example, I'm probably in
the bottom 20% as far as knowledge and experience. I'm just an actual
programmer, as opposed to most of the wannabe script kiddies who post
on these forums pretending to be experts without ever taking a single class
or reading a single book.

lol what the fuck

Thanks Kroush, I was laughing my ass of wondering when someone would post a few of the hundreds of services out there that already do this. As Baddog said, Southwest is moving to a new system whereby the sooner you check in, the better. I believe they are splitting in to 5 groups and you line up in those groups, in order of the number printed on your boarding pass.