Travel

Southwest Airlines Scraper

southwest.com

Southwest Airlines never exposed a public fare API, and its booking site sits behind Akamai, so pulling live prices normally means driving a real browser through the anti-bot layer. ScrapeUnblocker does that for you and hands back clean JSON: pass an origin, a destination and dates, and you get every fare product priced in either dollars or Rapid Rewards points. Leave the return date off for a one-way search.

What you can extract

• Fare products: Wanna Get Away, Wanna Get Away Plus, Anytime and Business Select
• Price per fare in dollars, or the equivalent in Rapid Rewards points
• Origin and destination airports by IATA code, with departure and return dates
• One-way or round-trip itineraries, for one to eight adult passengers
• Flight numbers, stop count and departure and arrival times per segment

Dedicated endpoints

How to scrape it

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key: $SU_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/flights/southwest-quotes?origin=DAL&dest=HOU&depart_date=2026-10-20&return_date=2026-10-27"

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/flights/southwest-quotes",
    headers={"X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key": SU_API_KEY},
    params={"origin": "DAL", "dest": "HOU", "depart_date": "2026-10-20", "return_date": "2026-10-27"},
)
print(resp.text)

import { ScrapeUnblockerClient } from 'scrapeunblocker';

const su = new ScrapeUnblockerClient({ apiKey: process.env.SU_API_KEY });

const results = await su.southwest.flights({
  origin: 'DAL',
  dest: 'HOU',
  depart_date: '2026-10-20',
  return_date: '2026-10-27',
});
console.log(results);

Requests are POST and take their parameters in the query string. Browser rendering always happens - there is no flag to enable.

Read the API docs

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