SNCF Train Ticket & Connection Scraper

Search the public SNCF Connect booking flow and export one structured record per train connection. The Actor is designed for travel planners, price-watch dashboards, route research, and AI agents that need current departure and arrival times, journey duration, direct/connecting status, displayed fares, train operators, and onboard services.

What it extracts

Each dataset item represents one SNCF Connect result card:

Field	Description
origin, destination	Station labels shown by SNCF Connect
departureTime, arrivalTime	ISO timestamps in Europe/Paris
durationMinutes	Journey duration when displayed
direct, changes	Direct/connection interpretation of the result card
carrier, trainType	Displayed operator and normalized family (tgv-inoui, ouigo, ter, intercites, or eurostar)
lowestPrice, fares	Displayed EUR prices by class, including “dès” and seat-count hints when present
services	Onboard services such as Wi-Fi, bar, or bicycle space
sourceUrl, searchedAt	Result page and retrieval timestamp

Prices and availability are live snapshots displayed by SNCF Connect. They are not a booking, quote, inventory guarantee, or guarantee that every operator is returned.

When to use it

Use it for a bounded one-way route search. Enter station names as SNCF Connect presents them; city names such as Paris and Lyon are also accepted and are resolved to the best matching station. Use directOnly or trainType for a narrower result set, priceMode: "schedules" when fare cards are not needed, and maxResults for a predictable budget.

The Actor does not log in, purchase tickets, access user bookings, solve CAPTCHAs, or bypass DataDome. It only reads the public booking flow. A challenged session is returned as a clear BLOCKED diagnostic with zero result charges.

Input

{
  "from": "Paris Gare de Lyon",
  "to": "Lyon Part-Dieu",
  "departureDate": "2026-09-11",
  "departureTime": "08:00",
  "directOnly": false,
  "trainType": "all",
  "priceMode": "prices",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxLoadMoreClicks": 1
}

departureDate defaults to tomorrow in Europe/Paris. maxResults accepts 1–50. maxLoadMoreClicks accepts 0–8. The default proxy configuration uses an Apify French residential session because SNCF Connect commonly applies DataDome to non-browser or datacenter traffic. Keep the proxy, browser, cookies, locale, and geography consistent for a run.

Console/API example:

apify call YOUR_USERNAME/sncf-train-ticket-connection-scraper \
  -p '{"from":"Paris Gare de Lyon","to":"Lyon Part-Dieu","departureTime":"08:00","maxResults":3}'

Output example

{
  "connectionId": "5d0a5f0e4c46a4c0c98b5e8d",
  "origin": "Paris - Gare De Lyon - Hall 1 & 2",
  "destination": "Lyon Part Dieu",
  "departureTime": "2026-09-11T08:00:00+02:00",
  "arrivalTime": "2026-09-11T09:56:00+02:00",
  "durationMinutes": 116,
  "changes": 0,
  "direct": true,
  "carrier": "TGV INOUI",
  "trainType": "tgv-inoui",
  "services": ["Wifi à bord", "Voiture bar"],
  "lowestPrice": 49,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "fares": [{"className":"second","price":49,"currency":"EUR","priceFrom":true,"availabilityText":null}],
  "searchedFrom": "Paris Gare de Lyon",
  "searchedTo": "Lyon Part-Dieu",
  "searchedAt": "2026-09-10T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": "SNCF Connect",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sncf-connect.com/home/shop/results/outward"
}

Run diagnostics are written to the OUTPUT key-value record. Outcomes are DATA, EMPTY, BLOCKED, REJECTED, or FAILED. The Actor never adds an error object to the homogeneous connection dataset.

Pay per event

Event	Price
SNCF search start	$0.035 per GB (2 GB default = $0.070)
train-connection	$0.012 per delivered connection

The start event is synthetic and is never manually charged. A connection is pushed to the dataset before its result event is charged. maxResults, pagination, and Apify’s maximum-charge limit bound work and spend. The minimum allowed cap is $0.15 to leave room for the 2 GB start, one result, and browser/proxy usage; the default cap is $0.30.

Reliability and compliance

The scraper uses a displayed Chromium session, a French residential route, bounded concurrency, short pagination, coherent browser signals, and session retirement for HTTP 403/429 or challenge responses. If SNCF changes its page structure, the Actor reports an explicit extraction diagnostic instead of fabricating records. Respect SNCF Connect’s terms, robots/access policies, fare display conditions, and applicable privacy and database-rights law. Do not use this Actor to automate purchasing or circumvent access controls.

Support

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