🚗 Skyscanner Car Hire Scraper - Live Prices as JSON

Search live car-hire prices the way Skyscanner does - then get the whole result set back as clean, structured JSON. Give a pickup location and dates; receive every rental offer with its price, provider, car model, seats, bags, fuel policy and booking link, cheapest first.

No browser setup, no proxies, no anti-bot headaches - it's all handled for you.

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⚡ Why use it

• Real Skyscanner prices - live rates across every rental provider
• Structured JSON, not HTML - one clean row per offer, ready for a spreadsheet, database or model
• Cheapest first - results are sorted by price
• Rich fields - car model, rental company, booking site (+ rating), price, seats, bags, fuel policy, mileage allowance, free-cancellation & insurance flags, SIPP code, pickup type, resolved pickup/dropoff location, booking link
• Target by name or exact ID - resolve a place name automatically, or pass Skyscanner's location ID to hit a precise town the name search can't reach
• Any market & currency - price a location as a traveller booking from any country

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📥 Input

Provide the pickup either as a name (pickup) or as a Skyscanner location ID (pickupId) - one of the two is required.

Field	Required	Description
pickup	✅*	Pickup city/airport - a name (Madrid, Malaga airport) is resolved automatically
pickupId	✅*	Skyscanner's own location ID (e.g. 27538416). Skips the name lookup and targets that exact place. Overrides pickup. Required only if pickup is empty.
dropoff		Return location name. Empty = same as pickup
dropoffId		Skyscanner location ID for the dropoff. Skips the name lookup. Overrides dropoff
pickupDate		Pickup date YYYY-MM-DD. Empty = ~60 days from today
pickupTime		Pickup time HH:MM (default 10:00)
dropoffDate		Dropoff date YYYY-MM-DD. Empty = ~2 days after pickup
dropoffTime		Dropoff time HH:MM (default 10:00)
driverAge		Main driver's age (default 30)
currency		Price currency, ISO code (default EUR)
market		Country you're booking from (default UK)
locale		Result language, e.g. en-GB, es-ES (default en-GB)
maxResults		Max offers to return, cheapest first. 0 = all

Example

{
  "pickup": "Madrid",
  "pickupDate": "2026-09-15",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-09-17",
  "driverAge": 30,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "market": "ES"
}

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📤 Output

One dataset item per offer (cheapest first):

{
  "car": "Volkswagen Golf",
  "vendor": "Alamo",
  "bookingProvider": "Economy Bookings",
  "bookingProviderRating": 4.2,
  "bookingProviderReviews": 54,
  "price": 181.91,
  "priceFormatted": "€181.91",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "seats": 5,
  "bags": 2,
  "fuelPolicy": "Full To Full",
  "mileage": "Unlimited",
  "freeCancellation": true,
  "excessInsuranceAvailable": false,
  "collisionDamageWaiver": true,
  "theftProtection": false,
  "thirdPartyCover": false,
  "sipp": "CDMR",
  "pickupType": "Shuttle Bus",
  "pickupId": "95673800",
  "pickupName": "Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson",
  "dropoffId": "95673800",
  "dropoffName": "Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson",
  "bookUrl": "https://www.skyscanner.net/..."
}

• vendor is the rental company (Alamo, Hertz); bookingProvider is the site selling the offer (the OTA). They are different.
• pickupId / pickupName show the exact location that was searched - useful to confirm a name resolved to the place you meant.

The full raw Skyscanner response is also saved to the run's key-value store under OUTPUT.

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🚀 Run it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pickup":"Madrid","pickupDate":"2026-09-15","dropoffDate":"2026-09-17"}'

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💡 Use cases

• Car-hire price monitoring & rate alerts
• Travel comparison sites and dashboards
• Feeding rates into pricing models / LLMs
• Market and demand research

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⚠️ Notes

• The first search takes ~30s while a live session warms up; repeat searches are ~3-5s. The actor waits and retries automatically.
• A past pickup date returns a clear Skyscanner error.
• A name that can't be resolved fails clearly - the actor does not quietly search a different location. If a place name isn't found (or resolves to the wrong spot), pass its pickupId / dropoffId instead to target it exactly.
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