Skiplagged Flight Search Scraper

Scrape Skiplagged — the flight fare-comparison search engine known for surfacing hidden-city and self-transfer itineraries that other search engines don't show. Search a single route, batch many routes in one run, or feed it Skiplagged search-page URLs directly. Get real prices, airlines, flight numbers, timings, layovers, and the cheapest booking provider for every itinerary. No login, no proxy, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Three modes: search (single route), byRoutes (batch multiple routes in one run), byUrls (paste Skiplagged search-page links)
• One-way and round-trip — round-trip searches return the outbound and return legs as separate priced itineraries, each tagged with legType, matching how Skiplagged itself prices them
• Passenger mix: adults, children, and infants (lap or seated)
• Filters: direct-only, max stops, price range, airline allow-list, sort order
• Booking providers: every itinerary lists which travel site(s) currently offer its lowest price
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per flight itinerary

• flightId, legType — outbound or inbound
• originAirport, originCity, originState, originCountry, destinationAirport, destinationCity, destinationState, destinationCountry
• departureTime, arrivalTime — ISO 8601 with timezone offset
• durationMinutes, duration — human-readable (e.g. 7h 30m)
• stops, direct
• airlines[], airlineCodes[], primaryAirline
• segments[] — one entry per flight leg: airlineCode, airlineName, flightNumber, departureAirport, departureTime, arrivalAirport, arrivalTime, durationMinutes
• layovers[] — one entry per connection: airport, durationMinutes, duration (human-readable). Omitted on direct itineraries.
• price, currency
• fareClass — cabin actually returned by Skiplagged for this itinerary
• requestedCabinClass — the cabin class you asked for
• adults, children, infantsLap, infantsSeat
• bookingProviders[] — travel site(s) offering the lowest listed price
• minRoundTripPrice — combined round-trip total, present on outbound records for round-trip searches
• sourceUrl — the Skiplagged search-results page for this route/date
• recordType: "skiplaggedFlight", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byRoutes / byUrls
origin	string	NYC	Origin IATA airport or metro code (mode=search)
destination	string	LON	Destination IATA airport or metro code (mode=search)
departDate	string	–	YYYY-MM-DD; defaults to 6 weeks from today if blank
returnDate	string	–	YYYY-MM-DD; omit for one-way
routes	array	–	Batch of {origin, destination, departDate, returnDate} objects (mode=byRoutes)
startUrls	array	–	Skiplagged flights-search URLs (mode=byUrls)
tripType	string	auto	auto / one-way / round-trip
cabinClass	string	economy	economy / premium-economy / business / first
adults	int	1	Adult passengers (1-9)
children	int	0	Child passengers (0-8)
infantsLap	int	0	Lap infants (0-8)
infantsSeat	int	0	Seated infants (0-8)
directOnly	bool	false	Only nonstop itineraries
maxStops	int	3	Drop itineraries with more stops
minPrice	int	–	Drop itineraries cheaper than this (USD)
maxPrice	int	–	Drop itineraries pricier than this (USD)
airlines	array	–	Only itineraries flying at least one of these IATA airline codes
sortBy	string	price	price / duration / departureTime / stops
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1-1000)

Example: one-way search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LAX",
  "departDate": "2026-09-15",
  "directOnly": true
}

Example: round-trip with passenger mix and price cap

{
  "mode": "search",
  "origin": "NYC",
  "destination": "LON",
  "departDate": "2026-09-01",
  "returnDate": "2026-09-08",
  "adults": 2,
  "children": 1,
  "maxPrice": 800,
  "sortBy": "duration"
}

Example: batch multiple routes in one run

{
  "mode": "byRoutes",
  "routes": [
    { "origin": "NYC", "destination": "LON", "departDate": "2026-09-01" },
    { "origin": "SFO", "destination": "TYO", "departDate": "2026-10-05", "returnDate": "2026-10-19" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: from a pasted Skiplagged URL

{
  "mode": "byUrls",
  "startUrls": ["https://skiplagged.com/flights/NYC/LON/2026-09-01/2026-09-08"]
}

Use cases

• Fare monitoring — track route prices over time for travel alerts or dashboards
• Travel agencies — compare provider pricing across a batch of client routes in one run
• Corporate travel — bulk-check fares for multiple employee itineraries
• Price-comparison tools — feed real fare data into your own travel search product
• Market research — analyze airline pricing and route competitiveness

FAQ

What's the data source? Skiplagged's public flight-search results (skiplagged.com), which aggregate fares from multiple online travel agencies and airlines.

Is this affiliated with Skiplagged? No — this is an independent, third-party actor that reads Skiplagged's public search results. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Skiplagged.

Why does a round-trip search return separate outbound/inbound records instead of one combined itinerary? Skiplagged prices round-trips as two independently-booked one-way tickets (its well-known self-transfer/hidden-city model), not as a single bundled fare. Each leg is returned as its own record with legType set to outbound or inbound, plus minRoundTripPrice on the outbound record showing the combined total Skiplagged currently quotes.

Why doesn't cabinClass always change the results? Skiplagged's public search primarily returns economy inventory for most routes regardless of the requested cabin. The actor always reports the real fareClass Skiplagged returned alongside your requestedCabinClass, so you can see when the two differ.

Why do adults/children/infantsLap/infantsSeat on output records not always match my requested passenger counts? The price shown is always a real per-passenger fare, and the adults/children/etc. fields reflect exactly what Skiplagged's search response reports for that itinerary — which for its public (non-logged-in) search is typically 1 adult regardless of the passenger counts you request. The actor never fabricates these fields; it passes your requested counts to Skiplagged and reports back only what Skiplagged's API actually returns.

What does bookingProviders mean? Skiplagged compares prices across several travel sites (airlines, OTAs, meta-search partners) for the same itinerary. This field lists whichever provider(s) are currently offering the lowest price shown.

What are originState/destinationState? Skiplagged reports a state or region for the queried city/metro area (e.g. New York for a US search, England for a UK search). This field is omitted when Skiplagged doesn't report one for that country.

Can I search by city instead of a specific airport? Yes — 3-letter metro codes like NYC (covers JFK/LGA/EWR) or LON (covers LHR/LGW/STN/LTN/LCY) are supported alongside single-airport codes like JFK or LHR.

How fresh are the prices? Prices reflect what Skiplagged's search API returns at the moment the actor runs — the same live pricing shown to a visitor on skiplagged.com.

Why Skiplagged and not Skyscanner? This actor originally targeted Skyscanner. Live testing showed every request to skyscanner.com and skyscanner.net — via both a real browser session and a plain HTTP request — was redirected 100% of the time to a hard bot-detection challenge page before any search results ever loaded, with no way to pass it without paid residential proxy infrastructure. Skiplagged is a same-category flight fare-comparison engine whose public search results are reliably accessible, so it replaces Skyscanner as this actor's data source.