SkyScanner

SkyScanner is a travel search engine that helps users find and compare flight prices, hotel rates, and car rental options from multiple providers, enabling travelers to find the best deals for their trips.

Power end-to-end data operations for your SkyScanner API with Nexla. Our bi-directional SkyScanner connector is purpose-built for SkyScanner, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to SkyScanner or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your SkyScanner workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Skyscanner credential, you need to obtain your API Key from your Skyscanner account. Skyscanner uses API Key authentication for all API requests, with the API key sent in the x-api-key header.

To obtain your Skyscanner API Key, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Skyscanner account using your administrator credentials, or create a new account at Skyscanner for Business.

2. Navigate to your account settings or API management section in the Skyscanner interface.

3. Look for the API or API Keys section in your account settings, or navigate to Settings > API or Developers > API Keys.

4. If you don't have an API key yet, look for the option to generate or create your API key.

5. Click Create API Key or Generate API Key to create a new API key.

6. Configure your API key settings:

   • Enter a name for the API key (e.g., "Nexla Integration")
   • Review and select the permissions or scopes for the key (if applicable)

7. Click Create or Generate to create the API key.

8. Copy the API key immediately after it's generated, as it may not be accessible again after you navigate away from the page.

9. Store the API key securely, as you will need it to configure your Nexla credential. The API key is sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The API key is sent in the x-api-key header for all API requests to the Skyscanner API. The API key authenticates your requests and grants access to Skyscanner resources based on your account permissions. If your API key is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your Skyscanner account settings and generate a new one. For detailed information about obtaining API keys, API authentication, and available endpoints, refer to the Skyscanner API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key Value	Yes	Yes

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – SkyScanner

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your Skyscanner API Key Value in the API Key Value field. This is the API key you obtained from your Skyscanner account settings (Settings > API or Developers > API Keys). The API key is sent in the x-api-key header for all API requests to the Skyscanner API. The API key is sensitive information and must be kept confidential.

   Your Skyscanner API key can be found in your Skyscanner account settings under Settings > API or Developers > API Keys. The API key is sent in the x-api-key header for all API requests to the Skyscanner API.

   If your API key is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your Skyscanner account settings and generate a new one. The API key provides access to your Skyscanner account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your API key secure and do not share it publicly.

   For detailed information about obtaining API keys, API authentication, and available endpoints, see the Skyscanner API documentation.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Skyscanner connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to your Skyscanner account, and click Next; or, create a new Skyscanner credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Skyscanner endpoints. Each template is designed specifically for the corresponding Skyscanner endpoint, making data source setup easy and efficient. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

List Carriers

This endpoint template retrieves a full list of active carriers with name and IATA code from Skyscanner. Use this template when you need to retrieve information about available airlines and carriers for flight searches.

• This endpoint automatically retrieves all active carriers from Skyscanner. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template.

This endpoint returns a full list of active carriers from Skyscanner, including carrier names and IATA codes. Use this endpoint to discover which airlines and carriers are available for flight searches.

For detailed information about carriers, API response structures, and available carrier data, see the Skyscanner API documentation.

Get Supported Locations

This endpoint template returns a full catalogue of supported locations (airports, cities, islands, countries and continents) in the specified locale from Skyscanner. Use this template when you need to retrieve location information for flight searches.

• Enter the locale in the Locale field. This should be the locale of the request (e.g., en-US, en-GB, fr-FR). The locale determines the language and format of the location names returned by the API.

This endpoint returns a full catalogue of supported locations from Skyscanner, including airports, cities, islands, countries, and continents in the specified locale. Use this endpoint to discover which locations are available for flight searches.

For detailed information about locations, API response structures, locale options, and available location data, see the Skyscanner API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Skyscanner data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Skyscanner API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates or endpoints that require chained API calls or custom query parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Skyscanner API typically uses the GET method. Endpoint URLs should include the API path (https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v3/), e.g., https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v3/flights/carriers or https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v3/geo/hierarchy/flights/{locale}. The API key is automatically added in the x-api-key header. For the Response Data Path, use $.carriers[*] to extract all items from the carriers array, $.places[*] to extract all items from the places array, or $[*] to extract all items from the response array, depending on your endpoint.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Next button to proceed with the rest of the data flow configuration, or click the Save button to save the new Skyscanner data source for later use.