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JonLuca

Looking for more templated URLs to search for higher bonuses

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Hey all!

I mapped out BoA's credit card application pages about a year ago and found a few app links that hadn't been found yet (30k Amtrak, a new Merrill+, etc).

Original reddit link

I'd like to try this again but don't have any more templated URLs that I could iterate over - does anyone know what each bank uses for their apps? Amex's are definitely the hardest, but I haven't looked into any other bank.

Also bonus: An entropy space gif of BoA! - each dot is a valid application

Edit: Also published some of the tools I use on Github, so if anyone is interested in working off my code or seeing how I did it, feel free to check it out.

Posted Oct 24, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC Β· edited

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RoamingRedPanda✈ LUKβ€’

Barclays - iterate on the campaignID and cellNumber. I haven't tested them to see if they're valid applications, but manually changing cellNumber on Arrival+ links showed the 40k offer a day before it dropped from 50k to 40k. Problem is that some of the links redirect you to another page which may just be an info page.

Example: Non-public No-AF Arrival Application which redirects

Example: Public Arrival+ Application which doesn't redirect

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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

All valid based off of your suggestions

I tried 0000 to 9999 with cellCode 0 - 9 (so 100,000 uniques in total)

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-T-RektCSR/CF/DLP/SPG/BfB/Plat/M+β€’

Actually interesting: AAviator Biz Link

I'm not sure if this is easily found, but I didn't even know it was released yet. When I google it, all I find is a login screen for AA and an application link with no bonus. This offer is 40k after one purchase.

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kevlarloverCHAβ€’

Wow, that's an amazing link - wouldn't that deserve its own post? It's essentially a new card.

I'm curious to hear from people brave enough to apply via that link.

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goodbyerpi*<--referrals in profile* OAK/SJC/SFOβ€’

player two got approved

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-T-RektCSR/CF/DLP/SPG/BfB/Plat/M+β€’

I wanted to make sure it was actually new. I went ahead and submitted. Thanks for the recommendation! πŸ˜„

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graffiksguruButter churnerβ€’

Nice find T-Rekt and JonLuca!

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-T-RektCSR/CF/DLP/SPG/BfB/Plat/M+β€’

I'm all about this gem.

I want to meet the person who proudly whips this out at the company dinner.

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IDOWNVOTECATSONSIGHT$traight Ca$h Homeyβ€’

Bonus details: Receive $500 for every Browns win during the season in which you applied.

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Goff2Gurleyβ€’

Lol before my churning days I used to have that. Just so I had a card with my team logo. Oh god

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banqueroβ€’

based on your name I assume you left the Browns for the Rams?

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thundervsokuniβ€’

I want to hear more about these once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

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banqueroβ€’

lately a win feels like a once in a lifetime experience. :(

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RoamingRedPanda✈ LUKβ€’

Awesome! How do you normally post-process the webpages after downloading them?

Edit: D'oh, you posted this like 12 hours ago!

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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

I used a tool called httpscreenshot that basically fired up a headless browser and would take screenshots of all the links. Then I rapid fire click through the images looking for anomalies/rare links. u/zackiv31 said he can help with scraping for actual information, though, which would be quite useful.

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shitrusCash is Kingβ€’

should look into beautiful soup for that

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IDOWNVOTECATSONSIGHT$traight Ca$h Homeyβ€’

I wish I could understand this stuff -.- seems fascinating.

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ittav032117/6 CCβ€’

Thank u for the Merrill + links πŸ˜€

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WantsToGetAwayβ€’

You da best!

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zackiv31rankt.com 4/24 for lifeβ€’

Do you automate scraping the offer details from the pages or just checking for link validity?

I may be able to help with the former if needed. I just spent a fair bit of time updating the rankt scrapers for offer/bonus/spend details.

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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

I've only been checking link validity - I then use a program like httpscreenshot and quickly zoom through the pictures to see if theres anything I haven't seen before.

That would be great though! I can send you the full list of valid URLs once I've created it.

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zackiv31rankt.com 4/24 for lifeβ€’

Yah definitely. I run the scrapers from a home server, so I should have a fairly fast turn around unless I also get rate limited (knock on wood, haven't had an issue yet).

Feel free to PM me when you get to that point! Good luck.

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jashsuβ€’

If I was a bank i'd put some honeypot fake vectors that aren't linked anywhere, wait for your scraper to find my honeypot, take a bunch of applications, then deny the bonus based on some buried legalese that the link wasn't legitimately obtained or something.

If I was a bank, that is.

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nohandsfootballDFW Butter Business Bureauβ€’

Go home Amex, you're drunk.

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nuhertz4 Chase Biz and Disney Connoisseurβ€’

Seems like a great way to lose money making customers.

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yt-nthr-rddtrIADβ€’

Do these links give you new options to try out or were they covered already?

  1. BofA Premium rewards card https://secure.bankofamerica.com/applynow/initialize-workflow.go?requesttype=c&campaignid=4022681&productoffercode=PS&locale=en_US
  2. BofA Alaska Airlines card https://secure.bankofamerica.com/applynow/initialize-workflow.go?requesttype=ICAO&campaignid=4020594
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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

All valid BOA based on that PS, 402XXXX. No clue if there are any uniques.. I still haven't tried it with the requesttype ICAO, but I doubt it's part of a full campaign.

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yt-nthr-rddtrIADβ€’

Great! Will you be running it thru the script to generate screenshots or scraping these links?

I also found out from the BofA Cards Application page, the productoffercode can have these values: 35,3W,4V,5V,7W,8G,8M,8U,AF,B6,BH,C2,CF,CY,KH,KW,NG,NK,PK,PS,RC,SY,TM,TV,UJ,VE

Sorry, I should have sent these to your before.

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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

Oh this is great! How did you figure this out?

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yt-nthr-rddtrIADβ€’

Very little JavaScript to extract all the links from the BofA Credit Cards page and then get the productoffercode from the URLs.

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teal2212β€’

Not sure this is what you're looking for but I've been able to find higher offers for the Untied card by changing the 40 to 50, 60 etc. Right now it seems that /60kAF redirects to a login page to check if you're targeted. They may have "fixed" this.

https://www.theexplorercard.com/40kAF

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sirtheta✈WAS. 33/19. 26/11. TO THE MOON.β€’

This will work fine, but is tied to your United account and is targeted in some manner. There were/are other URLs, such as 70k50SC.

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algagPIT - Refs in Profileβ€’

I just tried checking to see what the offer was last night and I saw 60k points after logging into my MP account iirc.

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redwarditSFOβœˆβ€’

It’s better to have some kind of color coding in 3D space (e.g color gradient on z-axis), otherwise no one can tell where do those dots in the middle of graph belongs to without seeing the rotation.

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hairyblackholeβ€’

I disagree. He doesn't have two independent variables and then counts for the z-axis, he has three independent variables and a boolean dependent variable for each triple.

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JonLucaOPLAX, VCE - 1mmβ€’

Here's the plotly if you want to play around with the data - you could try adding a gradient on the z axis or something like that, I don't know if that additional information would actually be useful though.

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yt-nthr-rddtrIADβ€’

This is another URL to try:

Capital One Venture - variations of the productId have $59/$95 AF and 40K/50K bonus miles.

https://applynow.capitalone.com/?productId=2020

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abhirupduttamitHard Pull ( Ν‘Β° ΝœΚ– Ν‘Β°)β€’

This one's been out there for a while. DoC already posted it.

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yt-nthr-rddtrIADβ€’

This is not about the offer, it is to cycle thru ALL possible variations of it.

FWIW, I'd x-posted this to DoC from a comment here by u/someguywithanaccount.

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8641975320β€’

Can't wait to poke around the tools you used - very interesting! Thanks!

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dynamicorPHL CENTURIONβ€’

If scraping finds any "deals" I would rather they be available to me and 100k others than no one

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dynamicorPHL CENTURIONβ€’

"PRIVATE" for whom? People who already subscribe? What if the sub was "PRIVATE" before you joined and you never got access to the information? Have fun using bloggers like TPG as your only source of info. I for one am happy I've learned as much as I have from this sub. A rising tide lifts all boats

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