Skyscanner Flight Scraper — Cheap Airfares & Multi-City

High-performance, pure HTTP Apify Actor designed to extract real-time flight itineraries, airfares, carrier schedules, routes, and booking deals from Skyscanner.com (memo23/skyscanner-scraper alternative).

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✈️ What It Does

• Extract Real-Time Fares: Pulls the lowest fares across airlines and online travel agencies (OTAs).
• Comprehensive Route Matrix: Scrapes one-way, return/round-trip flights, and multi-city combinations.
• Flight & Airline Details: Captures departure and arrival timestamps, flight durations, stop counts, layover details, operating airlines, and flight numbers.
• OTA Deals & Booking Quotes: Extracts individual seller quotes (Expedia, Trip.com, official airlines, etc.) with ratings and deep links.
• Pure HTTP Fast-Path: Bypasses heavy headless browser overhead using Crawlee and got-scraping with TLS Chrome fingerprinting and HTTP/2 framing.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This actor operates on a pay-as-you-go Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for what you extract:

Event Name	Purpose	Price (USD)	Description
apify-actor-start	Actor Start	$0.007	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
apify-default-dataset-item	result	$0.001	Single result in the default dataset.
additional-data	Additional data	$0.001	Charged for additional data / booking quotes.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	No	[{"url": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/261015/"}]	Direct Skyscanner search URLs to scrape.
searchQuery	String	No	"London to New York 2026-10-15"	Free-text search string (e.g. London to New York 2026-10-15).
departureAirport	String	No	LHR	3-letter IATA code of departure airport.
arrivalAirport	String	No	JFK	3-letter IATA code of destination airport.
departureDate	String	No	2026-10-15	Date of departure (YYYY-MM-DD or YYMMDD).
returnDate	String	No	null	Return date for round-trip flights.
cabinClass	String	No	economy	Cabin tier: economy, premium_economy, business, or first.
adults	Integer	No	1	Number of adult passengers.
currency	String	No	USD	ISO 4217 currency code (e.g. USD, GBP, EUR).
market	String	No	US	Market country code (e.g. US, GB, DE).
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of flight itineraries to save.
proxy	Object	No	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Apify proxy configuration.

Sample Input JSON

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/261015/"
    }
  ],
  "cabinClass": "economy",
  "adults": 1,
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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📤 Output Dataset Format

Each item pushed to the default dataset contains full flight metadata:

{
  "id": "skyscanner-lhr-jfk-20261015-1",
  "price": 418,
  "priceFormatted": "USD 418",
  "currency": "USD",
  "outboundOrigin": "LHR",
  "outboundDestination": "JFK",
  "carriers": ["British Airways"],
  "departureTime": "2026-10-15T08:25:00Z",
  "arrivalTime": "2026-10-15T11:15:00Z",
  "duration": "7h 50m",
  "durationMinutes": 470,
  "stops": 0,
  "isDirect": true,
  "cabinClass": "economy",
  "tripType": "one_way",
  "deepLink": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/261015/",
  "bookingDeals": [
    {
      "agentName": "British Airways",
      "price": 418,
      "priceFormatted": "USD 418",
      "rating": 4.5,
      "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/"
    },
    {
      "agentName": "Trip.com",
      "price": 410,
      "priceFormatted": "USD 410",
      "rating": 4.2,
      "bookingUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/"
    }
  ],
  "tags": ["Cheapest", "Best"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T03:30:00.000Z"
}

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⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

1. Zero Browser Bloat: Uses pure HTTP requests via got-scraping with TLS fingerprint impersonation. Runs with minimal memory and maximum speed.
2. Transparent Pay-Per-Event (PPE): Never pay for idle execution. Only pay $0.001 per extracted result!
3. Multi-Route & Flexible Input: Accepts raw Skyscanner URLs, IATA codes, or natural language prompts.
4. Resilient Data Extraction: Built-in retry mechanisms and exit IP rotation to defeat anti-bot blocking.