Skyscanner Scraper — $0.80/1K flights, agents & calendar

Skyscanner Scraper pulls live flight prices from Skyscanner for any route and date and returns them as clean rows: total price, the travel agent or airline selling it, every other agent with its own price, rating and booking link, airlines, flight numbers, stops, layovers, departure and arrival times, duration and CO₂. One-way, round trip, multi-city, and a 12-month price calendar (cheapest fare per day). No Skyscanner API key, no partner account, no browser.

It is a Skyscanner API alternative for fare tracking, price comparison, travel content and AI agents: you give a route and a date (or paste a Skyscanner search link), you get a table you can export to Excel, CSV or JSON, call from Python or JavaScript, or plug into n8n, Make, Zapier and MCP.

Tested head-to-head — 30 Oct 2026

Four searches run on every Actor with the same input, 20 results each, US market, USD: JFK → LHR and LAX → NRT one-way, DPS ⇄ SIN round trip, CGK → SIN → BKK multi-city.

	This Actor	Other Skyscanner Actors in the Store
Rows returned (20 asked)	20 on every search	18–20 (Skyscanner-based), 6–16 (cache-based)
Cheapest fare found	same or lower (LAX → NRT: $276.95 vs $279)	—
Cost of a 20-row run, Free plan	$0.020 one-way, $0.024 round trip	$0.027–$0.040
Every agent with its own price, rating and booking link	yes	no
Data from Skyscanner itself	yes	not always (one returns cached fares from another source, with a wrong date)
Price calendar in the same Actor	yes, $0.0008 per day	separate Actor, $0.003 per day
Run time	30–50 s	2–31 s

What is Skyscanner Scraper?

Skyscanner compares hundreds of airlines and online travel agencies for every search. This Actor runs that same search the way the Skyscanner website does and hands you the result as data:

• Flights mode — one row per itinerary. Each row carries the lowest price, the agent behind it, a direct Skyscanner booking link, and the full list of agents (Expedia, Kiwi.com, Trip.com, Gotogate, the airline itself…) with each agent's price and customer rating.
• Price calendar mode — one row per departure day for the next ~12 months with the cheapest one-way price Skyscanner has seen and its price level (low / medium / high). One fast request per route.

Typical searches return 100 to 2,000 itineraries; you keep as many as you need with Max flights per search.

What data can Skyscanner Scraper extract?

Field	Example	What it is
price	290.4	Lowest total price for all passengers
currency / priceFormatted	USD / $291	Currency you asked for
cheapestAgent	British Airways	Who sells the lowest price
bookingUrl	https://www.skyscanner.net/transport_deeplink/…	Skyscanner redirect to book with that agent
agents[]	{name, price, rating, ratingCount, isAirline, bookingUrl}	Every agent with a price, cheapest first
unpricedAgents[]	["Lufthansa"]	Agents listed without a price ("see their site")
airlines / airlineCodes	["British Airways"] / ["BA"]	Marketing carriers
flightNumbers	["BA114"]	All flight numbers of the trip
stops / totalStops	0 / 0	Most stops on one leg / all legs together
departAt / arriveAt	2026-12-03T21:15:00	Local times, outbound
returnDepartAt / returnArriveAt	2026-12-10T08:05:00	Local times, return (round trip)
durationMinutes	420	Flying + layover time
legs[]	segments, operating airline, airports, layovers	Full itinerary, leg by leg
tags	["cheapest","shortest"]	Skyscanner's own labels
score	0.999	Skyscanner "Best" score
isSelfTransfer	false	Separate tickets, re-check bags
changeAllowed / refundable	false	Fare policy flags
emissionsKg / emissionsVsTypicalPercent	310 / -28	CO₂ per passenger and vs a typical flight
searchUrl	https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/jfk/lhr/261203/…	The same search on Skyscanner
totalFound / resultsComplete	301 / true	How many itineraries Skyscanner had

Price calendar rows (type: "price-day"): date, price, currency, priceLevel, isCheapestDay, searchUrl.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Skyscanner?

Pay-per-event, no monthly rent, error rows are always free:

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
Flight search, per leg (one-way = 1, round trip = 2)	$0.004	$0.0036	$0.0032	$0.0028
Flight row (one itinerary)	$0.0008	$0.00072	$0.00064	$0.00056
Price-calendar day	$0.0008	$0.00072	$0.00064	$0.00056

Examples (Free plan prices):

• One-way search, 20 flights: $0.004 + 20 × $0.0008 = $0.020
• One-way search, 50 flights: $0.044 (Gold: $0.031)
• Round trip, 50 flights: $0.008 + $0.040 = $0.048
• 12-month price calendar for one route (~360 days): ≈ $0.29

Rows cost $0.80 per 1,000 on the Free plan and $0.56 per 1,000 on Gold, plus the search fee. A search that finds nothing, a bad date or an unknown airport is a free error row. The last row of each run is a free summary of what was delivered and charged (switch it off with Add a free summary row).

How to scrape Skyscanner with Skyscanner Scraper

1. Open the Actor and type From and To — airport codes (JFK, LHR), city codes that cover every airport of a city (NYC, LON), or plain city names (Bali, Tokyo).
2. Set Departure date as 2026-12-03, or as +30 for "30 days from today" — handy for schedules, the date never goes stale.
3. Add a Return date for a round trip, or leave it empty for one-way.
4. Optionally pick cabin, passengers, stops, airlines, max price, currency and market.
5. Press Start. A one-way search takes 15–35 seconds, a round trip 30–60 seconds.
6. Download the table as Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML, or read it through the API.

⬇️ Input

One-way or round trip

{
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LHR",
  "departureDate": "2026-12-03",
  "returnDate": "2026-12-10",
  "adults": 1,
  "cabinClass": "economy",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50,
  "sortBy": "cheapest",
  "currency": "USD",
  "market": "US"
}

Several origins, destinations or dates, comma-separated ("origin": "JFK,EWR", "departureDate": "+30,+31,+32"), become one search per combination, up to 200 searches per run.

Paste Skyscanner links

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lond/nyca/261210/261217/?adultsv2=2&cabinclass=business" }] }

Route, dates, adults, children and cabin are read from the link.

Multi-city / open-jaw

{
  "multiCityLegs": [
    { "origin": "CGK", "destination": "SIN", "date": "2026-11-20" },
    { "origin": "SIN", "destination": "BKK", "date": "2026-11-25" },
    { "origin": "BKK", "destination": "CGK", "date": "2026-11-30" }
  ]
}

Price calendar

{ "mode": "calendar", "origin": "DPS", "destination": "SYD", "maxResultsPerSearch": 400 }

Add departureDate and calendarEndDate ("+10", "+90") to cut the window.

Filters

Input	Effect
maxStops	0 direct only, 1, 2, or any
airlines	keep itineraries flown by these IATA codes (["BA","AA"])
maxPrice	drop anything above this total price
excludeSelfTransfer	drop separate-ticket itineraries
sortBy	best (Skyscanner score), cheapest, fastest
maxAgentsPerFlight	how many agents to list per row (0–100)
market / currency / locale	point of sale, price currency, language

Filters are applied to the full Skyscanner result, then the first Max flights per search rows are kept, so maxStops: "0" with 20 rows gives 20 direct flights when Skyscanner has them.

⬆️ Output

One real row (JFK → LHR, one-way, cheapest first; booking links shortened):

{
  "type": "flight",
  "tripType": "one_way",
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LHR",
  "departureDate": "2026-11-28",
  "price": 289,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceFormatted": "$289",
  "cheapestAgent": "Booking.com",
  "cheapestAgentIsAirline": false,
  "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport_deeplink/4.0/US/en-US/USD/bcom/1/…",
  "agentsCount": 23,
  "agents": [
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "agentId": "bcom",
      "isAirline": false,
      "price": 289,
      "rating": 4.91,
      "ratingCount": 5138,
      "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport_deeplink/4.0/US/en-US/USD/bcom/1/…"
    },
    {
      "name": "Flightnetwork",
      "agentId": "fnus",
      "isAirline": false,
      "price": 291,
      "rating": 4.53,
      "ratingCount": 1130,
      "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport_deeplink/4.0/US/en-US/USD/fnus/1/…"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kiwi.com",
      "agentId": "skyp",
      "isAirline": false,
      "price": 297,
      "rating": 4.41,
      "ratingCount": 5738,
      "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport_deeplink/4.0/US/en-US/USD/skyp/1/…"
    }
  ],
  "unpricedAgents": [],
  "airlines": [
    "Aer Lingus"
  ],
  "airlineCodes": [
    "EI"
  ],
  "flightNumbers": [
    "EI106",
    "EI158"
  ],
  "stops": 1,
  "totalStops": 1,
  "departAt": "2026-11-28T21:15:00",
  "arriveAt": "2026-11-29T11:25:00",
  "durationMinutes": 550,
  "legs": [
    {
      "origin": "JFK",
      "destination": "LHR",
      "departAt": "2026-11-28T21:15:00",
      "arriveAt": "2026-11-29T11:25:00",
      "durationMinutes": 550,
      "stops": 1,
      "segments": [
        {
          "flightNumber": "EI106",
          "airline": "Aer Lingus",
          "operatingAirline": "Aer Lingus",
          "origin": "JFK",
          "destination": "DUB",
          "departAt": "2026-11-28T21:15:00",
          "arriveAt": "2026-11-29T08:45:00",
          "durationMinutes": 390
        },
        {
          "flightNumber": "EI158",
          "airline": "Aer Lingus",
          "operatingAirline": "Aer Lingus",
          "origin": "DUB",
          "destination": "LHR",
          "departAt": "2026-11-29T10:00:00",
          "arriveAt": "2026-11-29T11:25:00",
          "durationMinutes": 85
        }
      ],
      "layovers": [
        {
          "airport": "DUB",
          "minutes": 75,
          "changeOfAirport": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "cheapest"
  ],
  "score": 0.725656,
  "isSelfTransfer": false,
  "changeAllowed": false,
  "refundable": false,
  "emissionsKg": 394,
  "emissionsVsTypicalPercent": -9,
  "cabinClass": "economy",
  "market": "US",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/jfk/lhr/261128/?adultsv2=1&cabinclass=economy&rtn=0",
  "totalFound": 302,
  "resultsComplete": true
}

The dataset has three views: Flights, Price calendar, and Errors and notices.

Error rows

A search that cannot run returns one free row with type: "error", a kind (bad-input, no-results, error) and a sentence saying what to change: a date in the past, an unknown airport, a return before the departure, or a filter that left nothing. These rows are never charged, so an empty answer is a documented result, not a broken run.

Use cases for Skyscanner data

Fare tracking and price alerts

Schedule the same route daily with "departureDate": "+30" and compare price over time, or run the price calendar weekly to catch the cheapest days.

Agent and OTA price comparison

agents[] shows how far apart Expedia, Kiwi.com, Trip.com and the airline are on the same itinerary — the spread Skyscanner shows in its booking panel, as data.

Travel agencies and travel content

Build "cheapest month to fly to Bali" pages from the calendar, or quote clients several options with direct booking links.

Airline and route research

Who flies a route, how many connections, typical durations, CO₂ versus typical, self-transfer share.

AI agents and RAG

Flat, literal field names and a deterministic input make it easy for an LLM agent to call through the Apify MCP server and answer "what is the cheapest way from Jakarta to Tokyo next month?".

Integrations

• Apify API — run and read results from any language. Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("lergassy/skyscanner-flights-scraper").call(run_input={
    "origin": "JFK", "destination": "LHR", "departureDate": "+30", "maxResultsPerSearch": 20, "sortBy": "cheapest"})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["type"] == "flight":
        print(row["price"], row["cheapestAgent"], row["flightNumbers"])

• JavaScript — await client.actor('lergassy/skyscanner-flights-scraper').call({...}) with apify-client.
• n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks — through Apify integrations.
• MCP server — AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can find and run this Actor through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Skyscanner?

The Actor reads publicly visible flight prices — the same data any visitor sees on skyscanner.net — and no personal data. Whether and how you may reuse the data depends on your country and your use; for commercial redistribution check Skyscanner's terms and consult a lawyer.

Do I need a Skyscanner API key?

No. The official Skyscanner API is open only to approved partners. This Actor needs only an Apify account.

Can I use Skyscanner Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes — every run can be started and read through the Apify API, with ready clients for Python and JavaScript.

Can I use it through an MCP server?

Yes. Add the Apify MCP server to your agent and it can call this Actor as a tool with the same input fields.

Can I integrate it with other apps?

Yes: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, webhooks and anything that speaks HTTP.

How many results do I get per search?

As many as Skyscanner has for the route and date — usually 100 to 2,000 itineraries — capped by Max flights per search (default 50). One row = one itinerary, with every agent's price inside it.

Why can a price differ from what I see on Skyscanner?

Prices change by the minute and differ by market and currency. Use the same market and currency as your Skyscanner site, and open searchUrl to see the same search.

How long does a run take?

15–35 seconds per one-way search, 30–60 seconds per round trip, about 5–10 seconds per price calendar. Searches in one run go three at a time.

What does "+30" mean in a date?

"30 days from today". Saved tasks and schedules with relative dates never search a past date.

What is a "search, per leg" event?

Skyscanner prices every leg of a trip, so a round trip costs twice the search fee of a one-way search and a 3-leg multi-city three times. Rows are billed separately.

Your feedback

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