skyscanner 1.1.2

Skyscanner Python SDK

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

1. Request for an API Key from Skyscanner for Business Contact Page.

2. Set your API Key:

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

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

   from 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='2016-07-28',
       inbounddate='2016-07-31',
       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 our 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.

History

1.0.0 (2015-03-24)

• First release on PyPI.

1.1.0 (2015-07-18)

• Stable release on PyPI.