Skyscanner Scraper

Skyscanner pricing in three flavours — pick the granularity that fits your use case:

• Daily price calendar — one record per day for ~360 days on a chosen route.
• Cheapest-month calendar — one record per month for the next 12+ months on a chosen route.
• Anywhere inspiration — one record per destination reachable from your origin, with the cheapest fare to each.

Designed for fare-tracking dashboards, price-alert apps, route-pricing studies, travel content publishers, and anyone who wants Skyscanner pricing data at scale without managing scrapers or browsers.

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What you can do with it

• Find the cheapest day to fly (pricecalendar) — sort the dataset by price and you have your answer.
• Spot the cheapest month at a glance (cheapest_month) — quick seasonality view per route.
• Discover where to go on a budget (anywhere_inspiration) — "where can I fly from LHR for under £200?" answered in one run.
• Build a fare alert — schedule the actor daily, diff against yesterday, notify on drops.
• Power a travel content site — embed price charts, "trending destinations" tiles, "cheapest month" badges.
• Train pricing models — historical daily snapshots are gold for forecasting.

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Why use this actor

• One actor, three modes — switch with a single input field; same auth, same proxy, same dataset shape per mode.
• Stable structured JSON — fixed schema per mode, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, or LLM pipelines.
• No Skyscanner account required — public data only.
• Automatic IP rotation — up to 5 fresh residential exits on rate-limit responses.
• City context included — every record optionally carries the origin / destination's full place metadata.

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How it works

Pick a mode and the actor calls the matching Skyscanner endpoint:

Mode	Endpoint type	Records per run
pricecalendar	Daily price endpoint	~360 (one per day)
cheapest_month	Monthly price endpoint	12–24 (one per month)
anywhere_inspiration	Explore endpoint	Hundreds (one per destination)

For each record the actor flattens the response into a row in the run's dataset, ready for download as JSON / CSV / Excel / XML.

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Input

{
  "mode": "pricecalendar",
  "origin": "LHR",
  "destination": "JFK",
  "market": "UK",
  "locale": "en-GB",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "trip_type": "round_trip",
  "include_place_info": true,
  "max_results": 365,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	yes	pricecalendar (default), cheapest_month, or anywhere_inspiration
origin	string	yes	3-letter IATA code for the departure airport
destination	string	for daily / monthly	3-letter IATA code. Required for pricecalendar and cheapest_month; ignored for anywhere_inspiration
market	string	no	Two-letter Skyscanner market code (default UK)
locale	string	no	Language tag for the response (default en-GB)
currency	string	no	ISO 4217 currency for prices (default GBP)
trip_type	string	no	round_trip (default) or one_way — used by cheapest_month only
include_place_info	boolean	no	When true, attaches origin / destination city/country metadata to every record
max_results	integer	no	Hard cap on records pushed to the dataset
proxy	object	no	Apify proxy configuration; residential recommended

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Sample output — pricecalendar (daily)

{
  "mode": "pricecalendar",
  "route_origin": "LHR",
  "route_destination": "JFK",
  "market": "UK",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "date": "2026-05-14",
  "price": 341.89,
  "price_tier": "medium",
  "price_tier_label": "££",
  "deeplink": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/260514/?adults=1&cabinclass=economy&currency=GBP&market=UK",
  "origin_place": {
    "iata": "LOND",
    "name": "London",
    "city": "London",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "location": "51.5041174139,-0.0943465343"
  },
  "destination_place": {
    "iata": "NYCA",
    "name": "New York",
    "city": "New York",
    "country": "United States",
    "location": "40.6940959901,-73.9282670243"
  }
}

Sample output — cheapest_month

{
  "mode": "cheapest_month",
  "route_origin": "LHR",
  "route_destination": "JFK",
  "market": "UK",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "year": 2026,
  "month": 7,
  "month_iso": "2026-07",
  "lowest_price": 312.0,
  "average_price": 487.5,
  "price_tier": "low",
  "price_tier_label": "£",
  "deeplink": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/jfk/2607/?adults=1&cabinclass=economy&currency=GBP&market=UK"
}

Sample output — anywhere_inspiration

{
  "mode": "anywhere_inspiration",
  "origin": "LHR",
  "destination": "BCNA",
  "destination_name": "Barcelona",
  "destination_city": "Barcelona",
  "destination_country": "Spain",
  "market": "UK",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "lowest_price": 41.99,
  "depart_date": "2026-06-12",
  "return_date": "2026-06-19",
  "deeplink": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/bcna/260612/?adults=1&cabinclass=economy&currency=GBP&market=UK",
  "origin_place": {
    "iata": "LOND",
    "name": "London",
    "city": "London",
    "country": "United Kingdom"
  }
}

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Output schemas

pricecalendar

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	pricecalendar
route_origin / route_destination	string	IATA codes from your input
date	string	Travel date YYYY-MM-DD
price	number	Cheapest known one-way price for that date
price_tier	string	low / medium / high
price_tier_label	string	Skyscanner's visual label (£ / ££ / £££)
deeplink	string	Direct Skyscanner search URL
origin_place / destination_place	object	City / country / coordinates when include_place_info

cheapest_month

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	cheapest_month
year / month	integers	Calendar period
month_iso	string	YYYY-MM
lowest_price	number	Cheapest fare seen in that month
average_price	number	Average for the month when supplied
price_tier	string	low / medium / high
deeplink	string	Direct Skyscanner search URL for that month

anywhere_inspiration

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	anywhere_inspiration
origin	string	Origin IATA from your input
destination	string	Destination sky-id
destination_name / destination_city / destination_country	strings	Destination identity
lowest_price	number	Cheapest fare to that destination
depart_date / return_date	strings	Suggested travel dates
deeplink	string	Direct Skyscanner search URL

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Tips

• Cheapest week in a year: pricecalendar mode, sort by price, take the top 7.
• Cheapest month of the year: cheapest_month mode, sort by lowest_price, take the top 1.
• Budget travel discovery: anywhere_inspiration mode with your home airport — filter the dataset by lowest_price <= 200.
• Compare markets: the same route can be substantially cheaper in one market than another (try market: "ID" for Indonesia, market: "DE" for Germany).
• Schedule daily runs: capture snapshots over time and you have a custom historical price database.