Travelglitch blog

Notes from the team. Glitch retros, scraper engineering, the occasional rant.

• 2026-04-28

  How Glitchfinder catches a price error

  Anatomy of a glitch: from the moment a retailer mistypes a price to the moment a Discord message lands in your phone.

• 2026-04-28

  The 5% floor: why we reject scam-priced rows

  Why a $17.99 ASUS laptop never makes it into your alerts, even though the scraper said so.

• 2026-04-28

  Why we drop budget carriers from Travelglitch

  Spirit, Frontier, Avelo, Breeze — they're cheap on paper, expensive in practice. Here's the deny-list that filters them out before you ever see an alert.

• 2026-04-28

  From non-stop only to one-stop fallback: relaxing the filter

  Why setting `non_stop: true` on PHL→DXB used to silence good fares — and what the scraper does now.