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rafabulsing • today at 2:37 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Enough people use Google flights that not being there is worse than being there. But if airlines had their way, not even that would be a available. I've looked into building my own flight search engine once, and (official) access to that data (ie not scraping) is very hard and expensive to get, to the point of being pretty much impossible if you're not a huge corporation.


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Shocka1 • today at 1:36 PM

This is my experience attempting to get the fastest NBA/College Basketball/NHL real time data for algorithmic trading. It was so expensive in fact, that it is better to create a custom trading application and physically attend the games.