# Changelog of Travel Fare & Hotel Price Intel - Flights, Hotels, Drops (`seibs.co/travel-fare-intel`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seibs.co/travel-fare-intel/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/seibs.co/travel-fare-intel.md

## Changelog

### 0.1 - 2026-06-12

Initial release.

- Four modes: `flight_fares`, `hotel_prices`, `route_grid`, `fare_watch`.
- Normalized fare + hotel schema (cross-provider: cabin/fare-class, currency, stops, duration, nights, per-night price).
- **google\_flights** fully wired: builds the base64 protobuf `tfs` query the website uses (Google Flights has no API) and parses the public results page.
- Catalog-registered providers with the anti-bot pipeline wired (parser pending): `skyscanner`, `kayak`, `kiwi` (flights); `google_hotels`, `booking`, `hotels_com` (hotels).
- Enrichment: route summaries (min/median/max + carrier spread), cheapest-per-date grid, and monitor-mode price-drop alerts.
- Three-tier anti-bot escalation ladder (httpx datacenter -> curl\_cffi residential -> Playwright/patchright browser) with fail-soft.
- Cost-control 5-layer defense: pre-flight caps, demo-mode soft-fail, `_RunBudget` guard, in-loop budget checks, hardcoded PPE prices.
- Monitor mode (scheduled-run delta + price drops), next-actions, and output-formatter artifact hooks (fail-soft, opt-in).
- Pay-per-event: `fare_record` $0.004, `hotel_record` $0.004, `route_history` $0.008, `price_drop_alert` $0.010, `scheduled_delta_run` $0.050.
- Paired MCP twin (`mcp-travel-fare-intel`) with x402 / Skyfire agentic-payment hook.