You will need to contact us to request an API key to use our APIs via the following form: https://partners.skyscanner.net/contact.

We receive a large number of requests and although we do our best to reply to all we cannot guarantee that your application will be successful.

Skyscanner Python SDK for Skyscanner's API

• Free software: Apache license
• SDK Documentation: https://skyscanner.readthedocs.org.
• API Documentation: http://business.skyscanner.net/portal/en-GB/Documentation/ApiOverview

• Tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4
• Supports Flights, Hotels, and Carhire

At the command line:

$ easy_install skyscanner

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv skyscanner
$ pip install skyscanner

1. Contact us to request an API key: https://partners.skyscanner.net/contact
2. If you don't already have one, create a Skyscanner account.
3. Sign into your account and click 'Import Existing App' and use your API key to create an App

4. Set your API Key in your code:

   from skyscanner.skyscanner import Flights
   flights_service = Flights('<Your API Key>')

5. Get the flights live pricing result by writing a few lines of code:

   from skyscanner.skyscanner import Flights
   
   flights_service = Flights('<Your API Key>')
   result = flights_service.get_result(
       country='UK',
       currency='GBP',
       locale='en-GB',
       originplace='SIN-sky',
       destinationplace='KUL-sky',
       outbounddate='2017-05-28',
       inbounddate='2017-05-31',
       adults=1).parsed
   
   print(result)

Note that both the inbounddate and outbounddate might need to be updated.

For more example usage, refer to the SDK documentation or the API documentation.

• Tests might appear to be broken sometimes, this is due to the throttling in the API. In such cases, you will see the following error in the build log:

  requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too many requests in the last minute.

• Please allow up to 15 minutes for your API key to be activated. Until it is activated you will get a 403 exception:

  requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/v1.0?apiKey=<Your API key>