# Flight Price Scraper (`techbellys/flight-price-scraper`) Actor

Search live Skyscanner flight prices for one-way and round-trip journeys. Get AUD and global market pricing, detailed outbound and return legs, segments, stops, layovers, airlines, and booking links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/techbellys/flight-price-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Prabhat pankaj](https://apify.com/techbellys) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Flight Price Scraper

Clean-room Apify Actor with an input contract and normalized output compatible with `makework36/flight-price-scraper` consumers. It searches **Skyscanner's Android unified-search API**, deduplicates itineraries, sorts by price, and writes one dataset item per itinerary.

Provider-specific price maps contain `skyscanner`, booking links point to the exact Skyscanner search, and Best/Cheapest/Fastest buckets are preserved in `highlights`. Airport, carrier, segment, layover, price, and self-transfer fields come from Skyscanner's structured response. Baggage fields that are absent from the search response remain `null`.

Skyscanner commonly blocks datacenter traffic, so the default input uses Apify Residential Proxy and retries up to three fresh sessions.

### Input

```json
{
  "origin": "LAX",
  "destination": "JFK",
  "departDate": "2026-12-10",
  "returnDate": "2026-12-20",
  "adults": 1,
  "cabinClass": "ECONOMY",
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxFlights": 50
}
```

Optional `departDateEnd` searches an inclusive range of up to 31 departure dates. Optional `maxStops` filters the normalized results.

For Australia, set `skyscannerMarket` to `AU`. If currency and locale are omitted, the Actor automatically uses `AUD`, `en-AU`, `www.skyscanner.com.au`, and an AU residential proxy. Example: `SYD` to `DEL`, departing `2026-09-19` and returning `2026-09-28`.

### Output

Each item includes route and schedule fields plus `prices`, `bestPrice`, `cheapestSource`, `sourcesFound`, `segments`, baggage placeholders, booking links, and `scrapedAt`.

Round-trip results also include explicit `outboundJourney` and `returnJourney` objects. Each journey contains its own airline, first flight code, departure and arrival times, duration, stops, route, segments, and layovers.

### Local check

```bash
npm test
```

# Actor input Schema

## `origin` (type: `string`):

3-letter IATA airport code.

## `destination` (type: `string`):

3-letter IATA airport code.

## `departDate` (type: `string`):

Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `departDateEnd` (type: `string`):

Search every departure date through this date (maximum 31 days).

## `returnDate` (type: `string`):

Return date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Omit, pass an empty string, or pass null for one-way.

## `adults` (type: `integer`):

Number of adult passengers.

## `cabinClass` (type: `string`):

Travel cabin to search.

## `maxStops` (type: `integer`):

Optional maximum number of stops.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

3-letter ISO currency code. Leave empty to use the market default (AUD for AU, USD for US).

## `skyscannerMarket` (type: `string`):

2-letter Skyscanner market code.

## `skyscannerLocale` (type: `string`):

BCP-47 locale used by Skyscanner. Leave empty to use the market default (en-AU for AU, en-US for US).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxy is recommended. When no country is selected, the Actor uses the Skyscanner market (for example AU).

## `maxFlights` (type: `integer`):

Maximum results across all searched dates.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "origin": "SYD",
  "destination": "DEL",
  "departDate": "2026-09-19",
  "adults": 1,
  "cabinClass": "ECONOMY",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "skyscannerMarket": "AU",
  "skyscannerLocale": "en-AU",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  },
  "maxFlights": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All normalized flight itineraries stored in the run's default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("techbellys/flight-price-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("techbellys/flight-price-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call techbellys/flight-price-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,techbellys/flight-price-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FvdNdLlBePYpfyWrI/builds/B0gbuCffhK5wtYw0Q/openapi.json