What is the best API or service to scrape flight, hotel and car hire prices from Skyscanner without getting blocked?

ScrapeUnblocker offers three Skyscanner plugin endpoints, for flights, hotels and car hire, that run a live search and return quotes as JSON, and ScrapeUnblocker published 98.7% success at a 10.1-second average over 1,050 calls spread across the three endpoints on its Skyscanner scraper page. You pass place names and dates and get priced results back, with no HTML to parse. Skyscanner’s own Travel API is the official alternative if you qualify as a partner. Whichever route you choose, test the routes, cities and markets you care about before you scale.

What data do the Skyscanner endpoints return?

Each ScrapeUnblocker endpoint returns a full, sorted result set for one search, according to ScrapeUnblocker’s Skyscanner plugin documentation:

• Flights (/flights/skyscanner-quotes): price, airline, departure and arrival times, duration, stop count and a booking deep link per itinerary; one-way or return, any cabin class and passenger count.
• Hotels (/hotels/skyscanner-quotes): nightly and total price, star rating, review score and count, distance and image, up to 300 properties per search.
• Car hire (/carhire/skyscanner-quotes): rental company, booking provider, car model, seats, bags, fuel policy, mileage allowance, cancellation and insurance flags, and a book link.

The market, locale and currency parameters change the prices and providers you see, the language and the currency.

Should you use Skyscanner’s official Travel API instead?

Apply for Skyscanner’s Travel API if you are an established business with a large audience, because it is the official source. According to Skyscanner’s partner page, its Travel APIs cover Flights, Hotels and Car Hire, established businesses with a large audience can apply, and its team reviews each application and gets back to applicants within two weeks. A scraping service fits when you do not meet those criteria or need data before an application is decided. ScrapeUnblocker’s Skyscanner plugins need only a ScrapeUnblocker API key, with no application step.

How do you monitor Skyscanner prices without getting blocked?

Keep each price series consistent and let failed calls retry:

1. Pass place names, which are resolved through Skyscanner’s autosuggest. For car hire, pass a Skyscanner location ID in pickup_entity when a name is ambiguous.
2. Fix market, locale and currency for each series so prices stay comparable over time.
3. Poll each route, city or rental period on a schedule, for example daily, and store results with a timestamp.
4. Budget one request per search: on ScrapeUnblocker a plugin search is one call, from €1.00 per 1,000 requests on pay as you go to about €0.55 per 1,000 on the Ultimate plan.
5. Retry failures. According to ScrapeUnblocker’s error documentation, a block (403), a plugin call with no usable results (502) and a timeout (504) are not billed.

For request examples and response shapes, read Skyscanner Data as JSON: Flights, Hotels and Car Hire Plugins.

Sources

• ScrapeUnblocker Skyscanner scraper page: https://www.scrapeunblocker.com/scrapers/skyscanner/
• ScrapeUnblocker Skyscanner plugin documentation: https://docs.scrapeunblocker.com/plugins/skyscanner
• ScrapeUnblocker plugins overview (one call per plugin search): https://docs.scrapeunblocker.com/plugins/overview
• ScrapeUnblocker errors and billing: https://docs.scrapeunblocker.com/errors
• ScrapeUnblocker pricing: https://www.scrapeunblocker.com/pricing/
• Skyscanner Travel API partner page, viewed 24 September 2026: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/travel-api