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pp-pointhound

Every Pointhound flight search, plus a local SQLite of every deal you've ever seen, balance-aware reachability, and...

Install

npx — recommended

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install pointhound

Installs the CLI binary and the agent skill (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more). Add --cli-only or --skill-only for one half. Requires Node.

Hermes

hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-pointhound --force

From the Hermes CLI. Inside a chat session use /skills install with the same path.

OpenClaw

Install the pp-pointhound skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-pointhound. The skill defines how its required CLI can be installed.

Paste this to your OpenClaw agent — the skill describes how to install its CLI.

Claude Desktop

This CLI ships an MCPB bundle. Download the latest release .mcpb and double-click it — Claude Desktop walks you through the install.

View source on GitHub →

Every Pointhound flight search, plus a local SQLite of every deal you've ever seen, balance-aware reachability, and drift detection no other award-search tool has.

Pointhound's web search is great for one-off lookups but doesn't compound. This CLI lets you batch search 20 routes overnight, ask 'where can I go with the points I actually have' in one call, watch a route and exit-code-2 when a new deal appears, and pivot every snapshot through agent-native --json output.

Learn more at Pointhound.

Authentication

Most of the CLI works anonymously — flight offer reads, filter facets, airport autocomplete, credit-card catalog. Only the top-deals-matrix and search commands need authentication, which happens via pointhound-pp-cli auth login --chrome — the CLI reads your existing Pointhound login cookies from Chrome (cf_clearance + ph_session) so no separate token is needed.

Quick Start

# Find airport codes with Pointhound's deal-aware autocomplete (no auth).
pointhound-pp-cli airports SFO --agent

# Read the offers for a search session you obtained from the website (anonymous).
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id ofs_xxx --cabins business --sort-by points --json --select id,pricePoints,airlinesList,totalDuration,totalStops

# Optional: import Chrome cookies to unlock search creation and top-deals matrix.
pointhound-pp-cli doctor

# The headline novel command: where can I go in business this October?
pointhound-pp-cli from-home SFO --balance "ur:250000,mr:80000" --search-ids ofs_xxx --cabin business --month 2026-10

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

from-home — Tell me where I can fly with the points I actually hold — feed in your Chase UR, Amex MR, Bilt, Capital One, and Citi TY balances and get back every destination reachable in the requested cabin within those balances, ranked by lowest effective spend.

When an agent has a goal like 'plan a fall trip' and a balance fact like 'user has 450k transferable points', this command answers the multi-step optimization in one call instead of N searches.
```
pointhound-pp-cli from-home SFO --balance "ur:250000,mr:80000,bilt:120000" --cabin business --month 2026-10 --agent
```
compare-transfer — Given a transferable points program (Chase UR, Amex MR, etc.) and a route, list every redemption ranked by source-program points spent — multiplying each offer's price by the real transfer ratio (1:1 instant for UR→United vs 0.333:1 up_to_72 for Marriott→United).

Agents reasoning about 'cheapest redemption' should ask in user-input units, not airline-output units. This command does the math.
```
pointhound-pp-cli compare-transfer chase-ultimate-rewards --search-id ofs_xxx --json
```
batch — Issue N route+date searches in parallel from a CSV file (or repeated --route flags); all results are snapshotted to the local SQLite store with throttling.

Multi-search is the common case for travel planning; web UIs only do one search at a time.
```
pointhound-pp-cli batch --search-ids-file ~/routes.txt --throttle 1s --cabin business --json
```
top-deals-matrix — Submit a multi-origin × multi-destination × month-range matrix search (e.g. SFO,LAX → LIS,FCO,LHR across Oct-Dec) and snapshot every result. Mirrors Pointhound's Premium Top Deals product but with offline access and cabin filtering.

Travel agents and trip planners can ask 'best Europe deal this fall?' in one shot.
```
pointhound-pp-cli top-deals-matrix --origins SFO,LAX --dests LIS,FCO,LHR --months 2026-10,2026-11,2026-12 --cabin business
```
drift — For a watched route, diff the latest snapshot against the previous and show per-offer status: new, cheaper, disappeared, unchanged. Includes the points delta and timestamp gap.

Answers 'did anything change?' in one terse output, which is what an agent or human re-checker actually wants.
```
pointhound-pp-cli drift SFO LIS 2026-08-15 --since yesterday --json
```
calendar — For a route + cabin, batch-search every month over a 12-month window and produce a month-grid showing min points cost per month (and the offer that achieved it).

Trip-planning agents need a month picker, not a date picker, when the user says 'sometime next year'.
```
pointhound-pp-cli calendar --search-ids ofs_a,ofs_b,ofs_c --cabin business --json
```

Agent-native plumbing

watch — Register a route as a saved watch; subsequent runs poll Pointhound and exit with code 2 only when a new or cheaper deal appears since the last snapshot. Perfect for cron.

The agent-native equivalent of 'tell me when something changes' — exit-code-driven, suitable for any scheduler.
```
pointhound-pp-cli watch SFO LIS 2026-08-15 --cabin business --quiet && say 'new deal'
```

Service-specific patterns

explore-deal-rating — Use Pointhound's scout.pointhound.com/places/search dealRating and isTracked fields to discover airports near a metro that historically have high-frequency deals, optionally chaining into batch to fetch live offers for them.

Lets an agent narrow the search space before fan-out: 'find me cheap deals from somewhere near NYC' becomes one command, not three.
```
pointhound-pp-cli explore-deal-rating --metro NYC --min-rating high --limit 5 --agent
```
transferable-sources — Given an airline redeem program (e.g. United MileagePlus), list every transferable earn program that feeds it with the ratio and transfer time (instant vs up_to_72).

Quick lookup for 'can I get to United via Capital One?' without remembering the table.
```
pointhound-pp-cli transferable-sources united-mileageplus --json
```

Usage

Run pointhound-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Commands

offers

Flight offers returned for a search session

pointhound-pp-cli offers filter_options - Get the filterable facets (card programs, airline programs, airlines) available for a given search session.
pointhound-pp-cli offers list - List flight offers for an existing search session, with optional filters and sort.

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

# JSON for scripting and agents
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --json

# Filter to specific fields
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --json --select id,name,status

# Dry run — show the request without sending
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
pointhound-pp-cli offers list --search-id 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
Filterable - --select id,name returns only fields you need
Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
Read-only by default - this CLI does not create, update, delete, publish, send, or mutate remote resources
Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

pointhound-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/pointhound-pp-cli/config.toml

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Troubleshooting

Authentication errors (exit code 4)

Run pointhound-pp-cli doctor to check credentials Not found errors (exit code 3)
Check the resource ID is correct
Run the list command to see available items

API-specific

pointhound-pp-cli search returns 'cookie required' — Run pointhound-pp-cli auth login --chrome to import Pointhound cookies from your Chrome profile.
offers list returns empty or 400 — The search session expired. Get a fresh ofs_* from the Pointhound website URL, or run pointhound-pp-cli search after auth login --chrome.
from-home returns no results — Run pointhound-pp-cli sync to populate the local store with transferOptions; without it, balance math has no ratios to use.
Rate limiting / 429 on batch — Increase --throttle (default 1s) and re-run; batch uses adaptive backoff but will surface a typed rate-limit error if exhausted.

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Discovery Signals

This CLI was generated with browser-captured traffic analysis.

Target observed: https://www.pointhound.com
Capture coverage: 30 API entries from 134 total network entries
Reachability: standard_http (90% confidence)
Protocols: rest_json (95% confidence)
Auth signals: none; cookie — cookies: cf_clearance, ph_session
Protection signals: cloudflare (95% confidence)
Generation hints: primary_base_url=https://www.pointhound.com, auth_type=cookie, anonymous_read_endpoints, cross_domain_novel_commands=scout.pointhound.com,db.pointhound.com, search_create_blocked_by_cloudflare_requires_cookie_replay
Candidate command ideas: — Primary read endpoint; verified replayable anonymously.; — Filter facets for a given search session; verified replayable anonymously.; — Airport/city autocomplete with deal-aware ranking (cross-domain — hand-written novel command).

Warnings from discovery:

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