Google Flights price alerts with your AI agent, for the flights you choose

Overview

Travelers who must fly a given route on a given day, and teams that book the same business trips every month, want to buy when the fare is low. They also have rules a fare must meet: a nonstop flight, a departure after 9 a.m., no self-transfer on separate tickets, enough seats for the whole family.

Why it's hard

Google Flights has no public API: Google closed QPX Express, its flight search API, in April 2018. Its "Track prices" option emails you when the price of a route changes, but it does not know your rules, so a cheaper fare at 6 a.m. with two stops triggers the same email as the flight you want. To apply your rules, you must open the results and read each flight.

How Reduck does it

Your AI agent runs your Google Flights search on a schedule, in your own Chrome, with no API key. For each search it sets the route, the date or a number of days ahead, the passengers, the cabin, the maximum number of stops and the currency. It reads every flight the page lists: times, duration, stops, layovers, airlines, flight numbers, the total price, and whether it is a self-transfer. It keeps the flights that meet your rules and tells you when one is under your budget.

What you get: each morning, the flights on your route that fit your rules and your price, with the airline, the times and the total for all passengers.

How to start

1. Create a free account at reduck.ai.
2. Install the Reduck extension in Chrome and pair it.
3. Connect Reduck to your agent: docs.reduck.ai.
4. Ask: "Every morning, search Google Flights from {origin} to {destination} on {date} for {passengers}, {max stops} at most. Keep the flights that leave after {earliest time} and are not self-transfers, and tell me when one costs less than {budget}, with the airline, the times and the price."

How it compares

Google's own alert is simpler when any flight on the route will do. Reduck is for when only some flights will.