✈️ Skyscanner Scraper

🚀 Export Skyscanner flight prices in seconds. Search any route, any date - get airline names, prices, durations, stops, and booking links in one clean dataset.

The Skyscanner Scraper extracts real-time flight search results from Skyscanner using the same mobile API the Android app uses. It resolves IATA airport codes, initiates a live search session, polls for complete results, and returns a sorted dataset of available flights - cheapest first.

Skyscanner indexes flights from hundreds of airlines and online travel agencies across every major route worldwide. This scraper surfaces those results programmatically, using Android API headers to bypass PerimeterX bot detection without needing residential proxies or browser automation.

Target Audience

Who	Why
Travel hackers	Find the cheapest fare on any route without clicking through ads
Travel agencies	Automate competitor fare monitoring and route pricing analysis
Corporate travel teams	Track flight costs for budget planning and approval workflows
Price alert developers	Build custom flight deal notification tools
Data journalists	Analyze airfare trends and route pricing over time

📋 What the Skyscanner Scraper does

• Resolves IATA airport codes (e.g. JFK, LHR) to Skyscanner entity IDs automatically
• Initiates a live Skyscanner search session and polls until results are complete
• Collects all available itineraries sorted cheapest first
• Captures airline name, logo, flight number, departure/arrival times, duration, stops, and price
• Builds a direct Skyscanner deep link for each result so users can book instantly
• Works without proxies by mimicking the Skyscanner Android app API fingerprint

💡 Why it matters: Skyscanner's web interface loads results slowly through multiple API calls and is protected by PerimeterX. This actor bypasses that entirely using the Android client channel, returning complete search results in a single structured dataset - something no manual search can replicate at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: airline, arrivalTime, currency, deepLink, departureTime, destination, origin, price, results, stops. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Skyscanner has aggressive bot detection. Match the proxyCountry to the market for the most natural request profile. If you see empty results, retry with a different proxy region or wait a minute and rerun.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Skyscanner Scraper actor page and click Try for free
3. Enter your origin and destination as IATA codes (e.g. LAX, CDG)
4. Set your travel date in YYYY-MM-DD format
5. Set maxItems to how many flight options you want
6. Click Start - results are ready in under 60 seconds for most routes
7. Download as CSV, JSON, Excel, or connect via API

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Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Skyscanner Ltd. It accesses only publicly available flight search data. Use responsibly and in accordance with Skyscanner's Terms of Service. ParseForge is not responsible for how collected data is used.

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