Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I reverse engineered and documented United Airlines in flight API
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
This is documentation of the United Airlines in-flight API, reverse engineered and made publicly available. It is for developers interested in accessing United's flight systems or building tools that interact with… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I reverse engineered and documented United Airlines in flight API launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IM
Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →
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Hola HN! Long time lurker, sometimes commentor, first time poster here. I’ve been working alongside my two co-founders and a few colleagues on a project I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share with you all! Like many of us, I’ve lived a tortured existence with AI coding (is it vibes?) over the past few months - I think November was a big moment with this. But, one thing I’ve noticed after building orchestration layer after orchestration layer is that the thing I always came back to was “what the hell is Claude Code actually doing?” Perhaps it’s because of the time Claude Code got…
Jun 2026 · backplanes.com · its alternatives →
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DropUnited▲359Chrome extension removes United from your flight search
2017 · dropunited.com · its alternatives →
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When automating business processes at work, I found it difficult and time-consuming to reverse engineer business systems' APIs. I often had to manually reverse engineer APIs using developer tools or settle for less optimal technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Often, the issue is that it can be hard to resolve all the cookies, access tokens, and other elements required to successfully execute the requests. Manually trying to resolve these dependencies using developer tools is especially challenging with multiple requests where data is stored in JavaScript objects or HTML…
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Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger
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Developer-centric approach to quickly building internal UIs
2022 · its alternatives →
- 7IM
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A flight tracker made in 6 hours on a flight home from OuterNet - NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A self-serve API for flight prices and booking links. Build flight search apps, price trackers, and AI travel tools.
2015 · spe.lt · its alternatives →
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Spelt▲94I was frustrated with existing APIs for searching flight prices, so I built this. It's a simple API to search for flights and get their prices. It can also return booking links. Generous free tier (happy to give more credits, lmk) + super low pricing. Lmk any thoughts or improvement ideas :)
2015 · ignav.com · its alternatives →
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I built a real-time flight tracker that renders 10,000+ aircraft on an interactive 3D globe, entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
Apr 2026 · flight-viz.com · its alternatives →
- 15DS
Hey HN, We're Steve and Tom (YC S18), the co-founders of Duffel (https://duffel.com/), an API-based travel platform. Think of Stripe, but for searching and booking flights. We built Duffel after running head first into the problem of accessing airline inventory for a side-project that we had. All the providers out there (ever heard of a GDS? Amadeus? Sabre?) felt antiquated, expensive and quite frankly didn't even want to work with us. To top it up, once we started digging the only things we could hear were "PNR", "IATA", "ARC", "RBD" and other wonderful acronyms. It’s…
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Hi HN, I'm Vamsi, the founder of Plane(A simple, extensible, open source project and product management tool). Today, I’m here to share our journey with you all. It all started when we identified some of the most frustrating elements for teams when managing projects, especially with tools that force users to learn complex frameworks. We wanted to create something that was intuitive and easy to use. That's how Plane was born! We first open-sourced Plane back in November 2022, and the response was great. But it wasn't until we announced Plane on Reddit in April that we saw an incredible surge…
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- 17PF
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Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Josh, one of the founders of Airplane! Airplane Views is our take on building internal tool UIs and is the newest component of our platform (alongside Tasks and Workflows). With Views, you can build admin dashboards, product usage charts, moderation inboxes, and more with just a few React components on a page. Views pair well with Tasks (our Lambda-like functions service)—you can write Tasks to fetch a list of customers or suspend a user, and hook them up to e.g. a Table or Button: import { Button, Stack, Table } from "airplane"; const AdminPanel = () => ( Suspend ); Internal…
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