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by oh_sigh 3136 days ago
If the information is available to any member of the public that requests it with no conditions at all, why is the information not considered public?
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> with no conditions at all

There are conditions on their site, and most sites.

Separately, if this information was public, then Google would have already incorporated it into its flight price notifications feature.

But again, fun idea. It's a good example of something individuals could create for themselves, and Southwest would likely never notice.

But it doesn't make it available with "no conditions at all", their robots.txt implies the condition that you aren't scraping it with a bot.
So there would be a material difference between me using the data when a bot scrapes it, versus a human doing it?