Skyscanner Flights Scraper - One-Way, Return and Multi-City
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Search Skyscanner for one-way, return and multi-city flights on the routes and dates you give. Keep only what fits: stops, airlines, times, journey length, price. One row per itinerary with the lowest price, who sells it, flight numbers, times and stops.
One search per route and date. A one-way route is {"origin": "JFK", "destination": "LAX", "date": "2026-10-20"} or the short form "JFK-LAX-2026-10-20". For a return, add "returnDate", or write "JFK-LAX-2026-10-20-2026-10-27". For a multi-city trip, put two or three legs in order under "legs", each with its own origin, destination and date. Add "lastDate" to a one-way or return route to search every departure day from "date" to it, 7 days at most: each day is a search of its own, so four days means four lists of itineraries to pay for, and on a return the return date moves along with it. Use airport codes such as LHR or JFK, or a city code such as LON, NYC or PAR for every airport in that city. With no date, a one-way route searches the day 30 days after the run. Up to 50 searches a run. They wait together, so five take about as long as one.
Links to Skyscanner results pages, one per line, each run as a search. The airports, dates, adults, children's ages, cabin and 'direct flights only' come from the link; the market, currency and filters come from this form. A link for a whole month, or for more than three legs, is refused. If a link asks for nearby airports, only the airports it names are searched, and PROBLEMS says so.
Which country's Skyscanner to search, as a two-letter code: US, UK, CA, DE and so on. For the United Kingdom it is UK; GB is accepted and treated as UK.
Locale sent with the search, such as en-US or en-GB. Keep it in step with the market.
Currency for the prices, as a three-letter code such as USD, GBP or EUR.
Adult passengers, 1 to 8. The price on each row is for everyone on the booking, children included, not a price per person.
One age per child: [8, 1] is an eight-year-old and a baby. Ages 0 to 17, up to 8 children. Under 2 counts as an infant, and each infant needs an adult. Leave it empty if only adults are flying.
Which cabin to price.
Counted per leg, so on a return both directions have to pass.
For the whole group, in the currency above. Anything dearer is dropped.
Per leg, from its first take-off to its last landing, connections included. 7.5 is seven and a half hours.
Two-character codes such as BA, U2 or B6, or names such as British Airways. An itinerary stays only if every flight in it is sold by one of them.
Codes or names, as above. An itinerary is dropped if any flight in it is sold by one of them, or flown by one on another airline's behalf.
When the outbound leg leaves, local time, on the 24-hour clock: 06:00-12:00. A range such as 22:00-06:00 runs past midnight. On a multi-city trip this and the arrival time apply to the first leg only.
When the outbound leg lands, local time at the airport it lands at, such as 12:00-20:00.
Return trips only: when the journey home leaves, local time, such as 15:00-21:00.
Return trips only: when the journey home lands, local time.
Fastest counts the whole trip, both ways on a return. Best is this Actor's own ranking, not the one on Skyscanner's site: each itinerary's price divided by the cheapest one's, plus its journey time divided by the quickest one's, lowest first.
Taken from the top once the filters and the order have run, so Fastest first with 10 gives the ten quickest that pass. A busy route has several hundred itineraries and a return can have over a thousand, and you pay for each one delivered.
