Skyscanner Scraper

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

• Daily price calendar — one record per day for ~360 days on a chosen route.
• Anywhere inspiration — every destination Skyscanner indexes from one origin in a chosen travel month, 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 at scale.

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What you can do with it

• Find the cheapest day to fly — sort the daily-calendar dataset by price and you have your answer.
• Discover where to go on a budget — anywhere mode answers "where can I fly from LHR for under £100 in July?" in a single run.
• Build a fare alert — schedule the actor daily, diff against yesterday, notify on drops.
• Power a travel content site — embed price charts and "trending destinations" tiles.
• Train pricing models — daily-price snapshots over time are gold for forecasting.
• Lead generation for travel agencies — surface routes where customers can save the most.

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Why use this actor

• One actor, two modes — switch with a single input field; same dataset shape per mode.
• Stable structured JSON — fixed schema, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, or LLM pipelines.
• No Skyscanner account required — public data only.
• Automatic retries — up to 5 fresh exit IPs on rate-limit responses.
• Cheapest-first ordering in anywhere mode out of the box.
• City context included — every record optionally carries place metadata (name, country, coordinates).

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How it works

Pick a mode and the actor delivers the matching dataset:

1. You give the actor an origin airport, optionally a destination, market, and currency.
2. The actor talks to Skyscanner's pricing service.
3. Each price is turned into one structured record with the deep link to that exact search.
4. Records stream into the run's dataset and are immediately available as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

Pagination, retries, and IP rotation are handled automatically.

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Input

{
  "mode": "pricecalendar",
  "origin": "LHR",
  "destination": "JFK",
  "market": "UK",
  "locale": "en-GB",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "include_place_info": true,
  "max_results": 200,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

For anywhere mode:

{
  "mode": "anywhere_inspiration",
  "origin": "LHR",
  "year": 2026,
  "month": 7,
  "market": "UK",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "adults": 1,
  "cabin_class": "ECONOMY",
  "max_results": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	yes	pricecalendar (default) or anywhere_inspiration
origin	string	yes	3-letter IATA code for the departure airport
destination	string	for pricecalendar	3-letter IATA code. Required for pricecalendar; ignored for anywhere_inspiration
year	integer	for anywhere_inspiration	Travel year (default: next month from today)
month	integer	for anywhere_inspiration	Travel month 1–12 (default: next month from today)
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)
adults	integer	no	Passenger count for anywhere mode (default 1)
cabin_class	string	no	ECONOMY, PREMIUM_ECONOMY, BUSINESS, FIRST for anywhere mode
include_place_info	boolean	no	When true (default) attaches city/country/coordinates to each record
max_results	integer	no	Hard cap on records pushed
proxy	object	no	Apify proxy configuration; residential recommended

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Sample output — pricecalendar (daily)

Real data from an LHR → JFK run:

{
  "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 — anywhere_inspiration

Real data from a "cheapest flights from LHR in July 2026" run, sorted cheapest-first:

{
  "mode": "anywhere_inspiration",
  "origin": "LHR",
  "destination_id": "27544891",
  "destination_iata": "CHIA",
  "destination_name": "Chicago, IL",
  "destination_city": "Chicago",
  "destination_region": "IL",
  "destination_continent": "North America",
  "year": 2026,
  "month": 7,
  "month_iso": "2026-07",
  "market": "UK",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "lowest_price": 32.0,
  "price_display": "£32",
  "direct": true,
  "image_url": "https://content.skyscnr.com/fb510ffb5376ed43182ec12f35594366/GettyImages-179123717.jpg",
  "deeplink": "https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/lhr/chia/2607/?adults=1&cabinclass=economy&currency=GBP&market=UK",
  "origin_place": {
    "iata": "LOND",
    "name": "London",
    "city": "London",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "location": "51.5041174139,-0.0943465343"
  }
}

A single anywhere run returns up to ~100 destinations sorted cheapest-first.

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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

anywhere_inspiration

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	anywhere_inspiration
origin	string	Origin IATA from your input
destination_id	string	Skyscanner's internal numeric ID for the destination city
destination_iata	string	Destination IATA / sky code
destination_name	string	Full destination name (e.g. "Chicago, IL")
destination_city	string	City portion
destination_region	string	Region / state / country portion when present
destination_continent	string	Continent name
year / month / month_iso	int / int / string	Travel period
lowest_price	number	Cheapest fare to that destination in the chosen month
price_display	string	Same price with currency symbol prefix
direct	boolean	Whether the cheapest fare is direct or has connections
image_url	string	Editorial photo of the destination
deeplink	string	Direct Skyscanner search URL
origin_place	object	Origin metadata when include_place_info

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Tips

• Cheapest week in a year: pricecalendar mode, sort by price, take the top 7.
• Budget travel discovery: anywhere_inspiration 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 to build a custom historical price database.
• Combine with a flight-booking actor: the deeplink on each record opens that exact search on Skyscanner — perfect for handoff to a search/booking page.