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How to monitor Southwest flight prices

Watch a Southwest search you care about—these fares never appear on Google Flights.

Southwest does not list fares on Google Flights or most aggregators, so the usual price trackers cannot see them. A monitor on the search results page can.

01

Start with the right page

Run the exact search—airports, dates, passengers—then copy the results URL. Confirm it reopens straight to results in a private browser window before monitoring.

02

Select the signal, not the noise

Select the flight rows with times and fares for the fare class you would book. Exclude upgrade banners, EarlyBird offers, and the fare-class explainer.

In the page-area picker, keep the smallest section that still contains enough context to understand the alert.

03

Tune the alert

Schedule

A few checks per day works: Southwest fares update in batches, and sales are typically announced early in the week.

Keyword filter

Leave this blank to receive any change within your selected area.

Delivery

Start with email. Connect Zapier or IFTTT when the alert needs to enter another workflow.

04

Preview, save, and refine

Check that Preview contains the information you expect, then save the monitor. If the first alerts include unrelated content, edit the monitor and make the selected area smaller.

Good to know

Fares can load through scripts that occasionally fail or show a please-wait screen. If Preview shows a loading page instead of fares, re-copy the URL or try a narrower search.

Ready to hand off the refreshing?

Create the monitor, confirm the preview, and let Urlooker check the page on your schedule.

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