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Southwest Airlines does not sell its fares through the global distribution systems or the usual flight-search APIs, and its site (southwest.com) sits behind Akamai Bot Manager - so its prices are notoriously hard to get programmatically. This plugin turns a live Southwest search into structured JSON: dollar and Rapid Rewards points fares, every flight on the route, for one-way or return trips. The search runs on a warm, anti-bot-cleared browser session. You never touch Akamai, cookies or the internal x-api-key - just send your ScrapeUnblocker key and the route.
Try it in the dashboard first: app.scrapeunblocker.com/dashboard/plugins. The plugin shows a live results view plus a copy-paste code snippet.

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Flights

Live Southwest fares for a route and date. Every flight comes back with its flight numbers, departure and arrival times, total duration and stop count, plus a price for each fare product - Wanna Get Away, Wanna Get Away Plus, Anytime and Business Select - in either US dollars or Rapid Rewards points.
The response is Southwest’s own booking/shopping payload, passed through untouched:
  • data.searchResults.airProducts[] - one entry per bound (outbound, then return). Each has lowestFare and a details[] list of flights.
  • data.searchResults.airProducts[].details[] - each flight with flightNumbers, originationAirportCode, destinationAirportCode, departureTime / arrivalTime (and full departureDateTime / arrivalDateTime), totalDuration (minutes), stopsNumber, segments[], and fareProducts.ADULT.{WGA,PLU,ANY,BUS} - each with fare.totalFare, fare.baseFare, fare.totalTaxesAndFees, fare.accrualPoints and availabilityStatus.
  • data.searchResults.fareSummary[] - the minimum fare per fare family (WGA, PLU, ANY, BUS; the *RED families when fare_type=points).
Dollar and points fares are separate searches. Pass fare_type=dollars for USD prices or fare_type=points for Rapid Rewards redemption fares - one call returns one dimension.

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What you can build

  • Fare monitoring and alerts - poll a route daily and notify when a Wanna Get Away price or points redemption drops.
  • Points vs cash comparison - pull both dimensions for a route and show which is the better value.
  • Route research - track how Southwest fares for a city pair move over weeks.
  • Travel content - keep “cheapest Southwest flights from X” pages fresh.

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Why a plugin

Southwest has no public fare API and no aggregator feed - it deliberately keeps its prices off third-party search sites, and the booking site is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. This plugin is the shortcut: sign up, add your API key, and pull Southwest fares the same day, from the dashboard or from code, without solving anti-bot yourself.

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Next steps

Open the plugins

Run a Southwest fare search and grab the JSON.

Get an API key

Free trial available on the pricing page.