This time is fully my bad, I sort of (100%) forgot about this. ANYWAYS, I got some of the biggest progress done yet.

Firstly, I got trips to save as cookies in your browser, since its an easier way for me to store data across the website. dont worry, im not stealing your data or anything lol.

Then, I did some research (with help from Claude) and found fast-flights, a Python library that is basically a Google Flights scraper, so it works perfectly. Except it’s a Python library… on a React website. So, I created a seperate repo that contains an API that requests the library and hosted it on render.com.

One note is that the links supplied reroute to google flights, so users will have to be careful with choosing correctly. Sadly, theres really no good free options for a flight API (literally everyone shut theirs down lol).

Lastly, I connected it all together by writing the base code for querying the API and getting the data back. I do need to actually format it, modify it to work with my data, and display it. But, its a good stopping point for now.
By next time, I want to have the flights page looking good, and my API to be more polished!