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Mass monitoring round-trip flight prices using Google Flights

The most useful feature in Google Flights is this table called Date grid that shows you all the prices in a 7x7 grid. With this, I can monitor 49 round trip prices at once.

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Assuming you have a target date range for your travel, you can then set your flights dates like this to control the Date grid boundaries.

Outbound flight: Earliest date + 3 days, e.g. July 27 + 3 days = July 30

Return flight: Latest date - 3 days, e.g. August 18 - 3 days = August 15

Now to monitor this and notify me when there are changes, I use this tool https://changedetection.io/ 

This is how it will look in ChangeDetection.io:

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I have target range of dates and I divide them into 7 day segments. I create unique URLs in Google flights manually for each of these target dates. Example is https://www.google.com/travel/flights/search?tfs=CBwQAhovagcIARIDQkVSagcIARIDUVBQEgoyMDIzLTA3LTIzcg0IAxIJL20vMDE5NXBkKAIaL2oNCAMSCS9tLzAxOTVwZBIKMjAyMy0wOC0xNXIHCAESA0JFUnIHCAESA1FQUCgCcAGCAQsI____________AUABQAFAAkACSAGYAQE&curr=EUR

Use this URL https://changedetection.io/share/aniVVijLKqga when creating a new change detection watch and just update the URL in the edit screen to match your preferences.

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After you've setup notifications, you can save the monitor and that's it.