Skyscanner

Skyscanner is an Edinburgh, Scotland–headquartered global travel marketplace that helps travellers compare flights, hotels, and car hire across hundreds of airlines, hotel providers, and online travel agents. Founded in 2003 and acquired by Trip.com Group (formerly Ctrip) in 2016, Skyscanner operates the consumer site skyscanner.net and a B2B partner programme that powers travel search experiences for third-party publishers and apps. The Skyscanner Travel APIs — Flights Live Prices, Flights Indicative Prices, Hotels Live Prices, Hotels Indicative Prices, Hotels Content, Hotels Reviews, Car Hire Live Prices, Car Hire Indicative Prices, Car Hire Agents, plus utility services for Culture, Geo, Autosuggest, and Carriers — are gated behind a partner application process and exposed only to approved partners with significant audience scale; full API documentation, base URLs, and OpenAPI specifications are published inside the partner portal rather than on the public developer site. Alongside the Travel APIs, Skyscanner runs an Affiliate Programme (commission on referred bookings) and a Distribution Network connecting airlines, hotel providers, car-hire suppliers, and OTAs to its 160M+ monthly users. Its public GitHub organisation is best known for the Backpack design system and for open-source infrastructure tooling such as cfripper and turbolift, rather than for SDKs against the Travel APIs.

Skyscanner is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Travel, Travel Search, Flights, Hotels, and Car Hire.

Skyscanner’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 18 more developer resources.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessApproval

0 APIs

TravelTravel SearchFlightsHotelsCar HireMetasearchAffiliateDistributionOnline Travel AgencyTrip.com Group

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SupportPortal

SupportPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

DeveloperDocs

DeveloperDocs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

SelfServeHelpCentre

SelfServeHelpCentre

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Partners

Careers

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

TravelAPI

TravelAPI

AffiliateProgramme

AffiliateProgramme

DistributionNetwork

DistributionNetwork

ApplyForTravelAPI

ApplyForTravelAPI

EngineeringPrinciples

EngineeringPrinciples

Backpack

Backpack

Company

Company

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: skyscanner
name: Skyscanner
description: Skyscanner is an Edinburgh, Scotland–headquartered global travel marketplace that helps travellers compare flights,
  hotels, and car hire across hundreds of airlines, hotel providers, and online travel agents. Founded in 2003 and acquired
  by Trip.com Group (formerly Ctrip) in 2016, Skyscanner operates the consumer site skyscanner.net and a B2B partner programme
  that powers travel search experiences for third-party publishers and apps. The Skyscanner Travel APIs — Flights Live Prices,
  Flights Indicative Prices, Hotels Live Prices, Hotels Indicative Prices, Hotels Content, Hotels Reviews, Car Hire Live Prices,
  Car Hire Indicative Prices, Car Hire Agents, plus utility services for Culture, Geo, Autosuggest, and Carriers — are gated
  behind a partner application process and exposed only to approved partners with significant audience scale; full API documentation,
  base URLs, and OpenAPI specifications are published inside the partner portal rather than on the public developer site.
  Alongside the Travel APIs, Skyscanner runs an Affiliate Programme (commission on referred bookings) and a Distribution Network
  connecting airlines, hotel providers, car-hire suppliers, and OTAs to its 160M+ monthly users. Its public GitHub organisation
  is best known for the Backpack design system and for open-source infrastructure tooling such as cfripper and turbolift,
  rather than for SDKs against the Travel APIs.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/skyscanner.png
tags:
- Travel
- Travel Search
- Flights
- Hotels
- Car Hire
- Metasearch
- Affiliate
- Distribution
- Online Travel Agency
- Trip.com Group
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/skyscanner/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/skyscanner-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/skyscanner-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.skyscanner.net
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/
- type: TravelAPI
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/travel-api
- type: AffiliateProgramme
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/affiliates
- type: DistributionNetwork
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/distribution
- type: DeveloperDocs
  url: https://developers.skyscanner.net/docs/intro
- type: ApplyForTravelAPI
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/contact/travel-api
- type: SupportPortal
  url: https://skyscannerpartnersupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/
- type: SelfServeHelpCentre
  url: https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/self-serve-help-centre
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Skyscanner
- type: EngineeringPrinciples
  url: https://github.com/Skyscanner/engineering-principles
- type: Backpack
  url: https://backpack.github.io/
- type: Company
  url: https://www.skyscanner.net/media
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.trip.com/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Skyscanner
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skyscanner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com