skypicker

skypicker-client

Introduction

The skypicker API is a nifty REST API for obtaining flight and airline data. skypicker is a thin NodeJS wrapper around the API.

Install

npm install skypicker --save

API

• searchLocationsByTerm
• searchLocationsByRadius
• searchLocationsByBox
• getLocationById
• getLocationDump
• getAirlines
• getAirlineIcon
• searchFlights

searchLocationsByTerm

• term: (required; string) - The search parameter used to identify a airport, city, country, etc.
• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• locationTypes: (optional; array) - There are six types of locations: airports, autonomous territories, cities, countries, stations, and subdivisions. These location types are captured in the LOCATION_TYPES constant. The default behavior is to search all location types.
• limit: (optional; positive integer) - This specifies the number of records returned by the API. The default value is 20.
• REST API documentation

Example

import { searchLocationsByTerm, LOCATION_TYPES } from 'skypicker';

const tenAirportsThatMatchLoganWithSpanishOutput = await searchLocationsByTerm({
  term: 'Logan',
  locale: 'es-ES',
  locationTypes: [LOCATION_TYPES.AIRPORT],
  limit: 10,
});

searchLocationsByRadius

• coordinate: (required; object) - An object with latitude and longitude properties that represents a point
• radius: (optional; non-negative integer) - Represents the kilometers from the specified coordinate to search. Defaults to 250 kilometers.
• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• locationTypes: (optional; array) - There are six types of locations: airports, autonomous territories, cities, countries, stations, and subdivisions. These location types are captured in the LOCATION_TYPES constant. The default behavior is to search all location types.
• limit: (optional; positive integer) - This specifies the number of records returned by the API. The default value is 20.
• sort: (optional: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES) - Specifies whether output should be sorted by name or rank in an ascending or descending manner
• REST API documentation

Example

import { searchLocationsByRadius, LOCATION_TYPES, LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES } from 'skypicker';

const tenAirportsWithinA100KilometerRadiusOfNewYorkCityWithSpanishOutput = await searchLocationsByRadius({
  coordinate: {
    latitude: 40.7128,
    longitude: -74.0059,
  },
  radius: 100,
  locale: 'es-ES',
  locationTypes: [LOCATION_TYPES.AIRPORT],
  limit: 10,
  sort: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES.DESCENDING_RANK,
})

searchLocationsByBox

• lowCoordinate: (required; object) - Specifies a coordinate object with latitude and longitude properties that represent the southwest corner of the geo search box.
• highCoordinate: (required; object) - Specifies a coordinate object with latitude and longitude properties that represent the northeast corner of the geo search box.
• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• locationTypes: (optional; array) - There are six types of locations: airports, autonomous territories, cities, countries, stations, and subdivisions. These location types are captured in the LOCATION_TYPES constant. The default behavior is to search all location types.
• limit: (optional; positive integer) - This specifies the number of records returned by the API. The default value is 20.
• sort: (optional: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES) - Specifies whether output should be sorted by name or rank in an ascending or descending manner
• REST API documentation

Example

import { searchLocationsByBox, LOCATION_TYPES, LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES } from 'skypicker';

const boxSearch = await searchLocationsByBox({
  lowCoordinate: {
    latitude: 40.200610,
    longitude: -74.624328,
  },
  highCoordinate: {
    latitude: 44.763212,
    longitude: -73.376543,
  },
  locale: 'es-ES',
  locationTypes: [LOCATION_TYPES.AIRPORT],
  limit: 10,
  sort: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES.DESCENDING_RANK,
})

getLocationById

• id: (required; string) - Specifies the IATA airport or ISO-3166 location code
• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• REST API documentation

getLocationDump

• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• locationTypes: (optional; array) - There are six types of locations: airports, autonomous territories, cities, countries, stations, and subdivisions. These location types are captured in the LOCATION_TYPES constant. The default behavior is to search all location types.
• limit: (optional; positive integer) - This specifies the number of records returned by the API. The default value is 20.
• sort: (optional: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES) - Specifies whether output should be sorted by name or rank in an ascending or descending manner
• REST API documentation

Example

import { getLocationDump, LOCATION_TYPES, LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES } from 'skypicker';

const locationDump = await getLocationDump({
  locationTypes: [LOCATION_TYPES.AIRPORT],
  limit: 10,
  sort: LOCATION_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES.DESCENDING_RANK,
})

getAirlines

• Gets all airlines (both LC (legacy carrier) and LCC (low-cost carrier))
• No parameters needed
• REST API documentation

getAirlineIcon

• airlineCode: (required; string) - Specifies the airline's IATA code
• REST API documentation

searchFlights

• departureIdentifier: (required; string, array[string]) - Any Skypicker location id(s), like airport codes, city IDs, two-letter country codes, etc.
• departureDateTimeRange: (required; object) - Specifies the departure date and time-of-day ranges. The departure date values should be in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD), while the time of day values should be in HH:mm format where the hour and minute values span 00-23 and 00-59, respectively.

{
  date: {
    start: '2018-01-01',
    end: '2018-01-15',
  },
  timeOfDay: {
    start: '02:30',
    end: '14:15',
  },
};

• returnDepartureDateTimeRange: (required if round-trip flight; object) - Specifies the departure date and time-of-day ranges. Object should be in the same format as the departureDateTimeRange variable.
• arrivalIdentifier: (optional; string, array[string]) - Any Skypicker location id(s). If this is not specified, you'll get results for all airports in the world
• maximumHoursInFlight: (optional; non-negative integers) - Maximum flight duration, in hours
• passengerCount: (optional; positive integers) - Number of passengers. Default value is 1.
• directFlightsOnly: (optional; boolean) - When true, only direct flights are considered. By default, false.
• currencyCode: (optional; string) - The currency in which prices and other relevant values are expressed. Follows ISO-4217 currency codes. By default, EUR.
• priceRange: (optional; object) - Only tickets within the specified range are returned. Values should be represented as non-negative integers.

{
  start: 0,
  end: 100,
}

• maximumStopOverCount: (optional; non-negative integer) - Maximum number of stopovers
• airlinesFilter: (optional; object) - Either excludes or includes the specified airlines. The airlinesFilter object has two properties: airlines (an array of IATA codes) and type (an AIRLINES_FILTER_TYPE value).

{
  airlines: [B6],
  type: AIRLINES_FILTER_TYPE.EXCLUDE,
}

• locale: (optional; string) - The returned output matches the locale specified. The default value is en.
• offset: (optional; non-negative integer) - Specified for paginating through requests
• limit: (optional; positive integer) - This specifies the number of records returned by the API. The default value is 20.
• sortType: (optional; FLIGHT_RESULTS_SORT_TYPES) - Specifies whether to sort results by date, duration, price, or quality
• REST API documentation