Skyscanner Data as JSON: Flights, Hotels and Car Hire Plugins

Skyscanner sits on some of the most useful travel data on the web: live flight itineraries across hundreds of airlines, hotel prices for any city and date, and car-hire quotes with real vendor deep links. The problem has always been getting that data out in a form you can actually build on. The pages are heavy single-page apps behind bot protection, and the official partner API is gated behind an application process.

We built three plugins that skip all of that. Flights, Hotels and Car Hire each take a plain-language search and hand you back structured JSON - the same data you would see on Skyscanner, minus the scraping, the proxies and the anti-bot fight. Use them from the dashboard with no code, or call them from your own stack when you need volume.

Three plugins, three kinds of travel data

Each plugin resolves free-text place names for you (type “Krakow”, pick the airport or city) and returns a full result set, sorted and ready to parse.

• Flights - live itineraries for a route and date. Every option comes back with price, airline, departure and arrival times, duration, stop count, and a direct booking deep link to the exact fare. One-way or return, any cabin class, any passenger count.
• Hotels - every hotel for a city and check-in/check-out window, with nightly price, total price, star rating, review score and count, distance and image. Pagination is handled for you, up to hundreds of properties per search.
• Car Hire - rental quotes for a pickup location and dates, with vendor, car model, seats, bags, fuel policy, pickup type and a book link per quote.

All three honour the parameters that matter for real pricing: market (the country you are booking from, which changes prices and providers), locale (the language of the results) and currency.

What you can build with it

The data lends itself to a lot more than a one-off lookup:

• Price monitoring and alerts - poll a route or a hotel every few hours and notify users when a fare drops. This is exactly the pattern behind our own AutoPing product.
• Fare and rate comparison - blend Skyscanner numbers with other sources to power a meta-search page or an internal pricing dashboard.
• Market research - track how prices for a city or route move over weeks, by market and currency, to spot seasonality and demand.
• Travel content and SEO pages - generate “cheapest flights from X” or “hotels near Y” pages that stay fresh because the data is live.
• Booking and affiliate flows - surface real options with working deep links, so a click goes straight to the exact itinerary or property.

Two ways to use it

1. In the dashboard - no code

Open the Plugins area in your ScrapeUnblocker dashboard, pick Flights, Hotels or Car Hire, fill in the fields (autosuggest helps you pick the right airport or city), and hit Run plugin. You get a clean results view plus the raw JSON, and a ready-to-copy code snippet in cURL, Python and JavaScript. It is the fastest way to test a query, sanity-check coverage, or grab a one-off pull without writing anything.

2. Programmatically - for volume

When you need thousands of searches, the same plugins are available through the API. Send one request, get the full JSON back:

curl -X POST "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/flights/skyscanner-quotes?origin=London&dest=Krakow&depart_date=2026-09-11&market=UK&locale=en-GB&currency=EUR&adults=1" \
  -H "x-scrapeunblocker-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Swap the endpoint for /hotels/skyscanner-quotes or /carhire/skyscanner-quotes and the matching parameters, and you have all three data types behind a single API key. Runs are served from a warm, anti-bot-cleared session pool, so you get results in seconds and you never touch a proxy or a browser. New accounts get 500 free requests to try it, no card needed.

Prefer Skyscanner’s own API? Here is the honest comparison

Skyscanner does offer a partner Travel API directly, and for some enterprises that is the right long-term route. It is worth knowing what it involves: you apply through a partner questionnaire, and approval is not instant - onboarding can take up to two weeks, and access is granted at Skyscanner’s discretion based on your use case and volume. You can read the details on the Skyscanner Travel API partner page.

Our plugins are the shortcut. There is no application and no waiting: sign up, drop in your API key, and you are pulling flights, hotels and car-hire data the same day - from the dashboard or from code. If you later qualify for direct partner access, great; until then, and for teams that just need the data now, ScrapeUnblocker gets you there in minutes.

Start with 500 free requests and try all three plugins today.