Skyscanner Python SDK¶

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.

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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

Features¶

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

Installation¶

At the command line:

$ easy_install skyscanner

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv skyscanner
$ pip install skyscanner

Quick start¶

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

Set your API Key in your code:

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

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.

More examples¶

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

Known Issues¶

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>