I built a site that tracks short-lived flight deals

In plain words

Flight-price-alert.com monitors flight prices and notifies users when cheaper fares appear for their desired routes. Built for travelers who want to avoid constantly checking airline websites, the tool scrapes flight data and alerts users to short-lived deals. It uses Go and SQLite for backend processing and is designed to catch price drops like the $1000 CAD roundtrip from Calgary to Tokyo that inspired its creation.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

So, this summer I was hunting for a flight from Calgary to Tokyo with WestJet, and I kept seeing these random cheaper flights popping up. I got tired of refreshing the site non-stop, so I whipped up a script to scrape the flight data. It paid off—I scored a roundtrip for $1000 CAD in July! Naturally, I decided to…

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