Flight Pingr

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  Tracking flights

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  Seeing flights that have been tracked, and choose to delete them.

Inspiration

I've always admired flightradar24's live flight tracking system, and it really showed me how things can connect in the real world. From personal experience, coordinating with people for pickups at the airport can be a hassle, so I made Flight Pingr, which can remove some of the stress involved with the task.

What it does

Flight Pingr will send you an SMS message on your phone once a flight that you want to track has landed. Just put in the flight details and phone number, and the rest is taken care of in the background! Currently, the code for this is private on GitHub, because there are some API keys and sensitive info inside.

How I built it

I used Flask, Github Gists, flight API, and Sendgrid to build Flight Pingr.

Challenges I ran into

There were many challenges associated with this project. This included a long search for flight APIs, and many, many, many timezone issues.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Finally, after many git commits, the timezone issues were solved and could be used.

What I learned

I learned a lot about APIs and how they can work, as well as the intricate structure of time zones across the world.

What's next for Flight Pingr

The next thing for Flight Pingr is to add support for live flight tracking on the site instead of just getting the message!

Built With

• datetime
• flightapi
• python
• render
• sendgrid