United Upgrades

A tool to find upgrade availability on United Airlines. Includes web front-end implementation.

united.js tool

The main component is a CasperJS script that goes through the United.com search process.

You will need to install:

• CasperJS
• PhantomJS (follow the instructions in CasperJS)

Run the tool with:

casperjs united.js [options] ORIGIN DESTINATION START END

Where options are:

• --json : Output as JSON format
• --csv : Output as CSV file (useful for importing to Google Docs or Excel)
• ORIGIN and DESTINATION should be a 3-letter airport code
• START and END should be US-formatted dates, eg MM/DD/YYY

Example

casperjs united.js --json SFO NRT 5/3/2013 6/1/2013

Linux users:

Be sure to use option --ignore-ssl-errors=yes when you run casperjs

casperjs --ignore-ssl-errors=yes united.js --json SFO NRT 5/3/2013 6/1/2013

Web tool

Inside of www/ is a Flask based web app frontend with 10 threads to run the united.js script remotely.