Hack UPC
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Skyscanner is an API platform that provides flight, hotel, and car rental data to over 50 million monthly users through their apps and websites. They have over 700 employees across 10 global offices speaking over 50 nationalities. Their APIs provide live pricing and availability for flights between airports, hotels in cities, and car rentals at locations using RESTful interfaces that return JSON or XML responses. Documentation and support is available on their website and by email.
![Flights
Live flight prices
Inputs: origin, destination, outbound date,
[return date]
Outputs: flight itineraries, current prices,
booking deeplinks
POST request to create a session with search
params
GET request with your session ID several
times to get full results (JSON or XML)
It takes ~10 seconds for complete
results to generate
This is because we ask airlines for their
latest prices
Cached cheapest flight prices (15 day TTL)
Inputs: origin, destination, outbound date,
[return date]
Outputs: cheapest prices per day for place(s)
and date(s)
Origin and destination can be an
airport, a city, a country, or “just take
me anywhere in the world”!
Dates can be a specific day, month, or
entire year
“Where is the cheapest place I can go
from Barcelona in May?” … “When is it
< 750€ to fly to China from Paris?”
GET request with immediate response
(JSONP, XML](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/hackupc-160221224614/85/Hack-UPC-7-320.jpg)
Hack UPC
- 1. Skyscanner APIs Flights, Hotels, Car Hire Tudor Barbu Senior Software Engineer
- 2. Unique monthly visitors Over 50 million App downloads Over 40 million Languages available Over 30 Global employees Over 700 Number of nationalities Over 50 Global offices 10
- 3. Some techy stats over 4500 servers 5 data centers around the world 4 AWS regions and growing over 400 engineers
- 4. What happens at price parity?
- 5. We’re really really good* and other businesses would like to use our data * and modest
- 6. Access to our data REST technology agnostic widely accepted standard open formats (json | xml) controlled & read-only
- 7. Flights Live flight prices Inputs: origin, destination, outbound date, [return date] Outputs: flight itineraries, current prices, booking deeplinks POST request to create a session with search params GET request with your session ID several times to get full results (JSON or XML) It takes ~10 seconds for complete results to generate This is because we ask airlines for their latest prices Cached cheapest flight prices (15 day TTL) Inputs: origin, destination, outbound date, [return date] Outputs: cheapest prices per day for place(s) and date(s) Origin and destination can be an airport, a city, a country, or “just take me anywhere in the world”! Dates can be a specific day, month, or entire year “Where is the cheapest place I can go from Barcelona in May?” … “When is it < 750€ to fly to China from Paris?” GET request with immediate response (JSONP, XML
- 8. Hotels Hotels Live Prices Inputs city dates number of guests Outputs available hotels prices booking deeplinks hotel amenities reviews
- 9. Car hire Car Hire Live Prices Inputs location, return location (optional) driver age dates Outputs available cars prices booking deeplinks Disclaimer: Please don’t drift in a rented car!
- 10. Location services Location services Search flights by IP geolocation latitude and longitude geolocation place name autosuggest (in many languages)
- 11. Documentation Documentation & Test Harness Email http://business.skyscanner.net/ apiEnquiries@skyscanner.net …or just ask our staff!
- 12. May the Force be with you :) Bona sort a tothom! Get your API key if you don’t have one already! Get in touch! codeVoyagers.com @codevoyagers
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