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Quick start guide

Introduction​

The Car hire Live Prices API is built on top of Skyscanner's car hire search stack and gives the current best prices of car hire quotes for a given search request. The quotes are retrieved in real time from our supply partners each time a search request is received.

Sample requests and responses​

/create​

curl --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v1/carhire/live/search/create' --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' --data ' {"query": {"market": "UK","locale": "en-GB","currency": "GBP","pickUpLocation": {"entityId": "27544008"},"pickUpDate": {"year": 2024,"month": 12, "day": 21,"hour": 16,"minute": 30},"dropOffDate": {"year": 2024,"month": 12, "day": 26,"hour": 12,"minute": 30},"includedAgentIds": ["vipd", "sixt"], "driverAge": 38}}'

/poll​

In the response from the createSearch retrieve the sessionToken and paste it in the pollSearch URI replacing the SESSION_TOKEN placeholder as below:

curl --location --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v1/carhire/live/search/poll/SESSION_TOKEN' --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key'

API documentation​

For more information please see car hire live prices API documentation