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Quick start guide

Introduction​

The Hotels Live Prices API is used to search for and return hotel quotes for any time window from the current day until one year from the current day. The API takes a location entity ID, check-in and check-out dates, and basic traveller information, and returns a list of hotel offers that will be bookable by travellers.

Sample requests and responses​

/create​

curl --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v1/hotels/live/search/create' \
--header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "query": {
    "market": "UK",
    "locale": "en-GB",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "entityId": "27544008",
    "checkinDate": {
      "year": 2025,
      "month": 9,
      "day": 15
    },
    "checkoutDate": {
      "year": 2025,
      "month": 9,
      "day": 20
    },
    "adults": 2,
    "childrenAges": [5, 8],
    "rooms": 1,
    "excludedAgentsIds": ["agent1"]
  },
  "initialPageSize": 25
}'

/poll​

In the response from the /create endpoint, retrieve the sessionToken and paste it in the /poll URI replacing the SESSION_TOKEN placeholder as below:

curl --location --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v1/hotels/live/search/poll/SESSION_TOKEN' \
--header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "sessionToken": "VGhpcyBpcyBhIHNlc3Npb24gdG9rZW4gbm90IG1lYW50IHRvIGJlIGh1bWFuIHJlYWRhYmxlIGFuZCBpdCBzdG9yZXMgbWV0YWRhdGEgdXNlZCBieSBvdXIgaW50ZXJuYWwgc3lzdGVtcyB0byBwcm9wZXJseSBoYW5kbGUgdGhlIHJlcXVlc3Q=",
  "sort": {
    "type": "SORT_ORDER_TYPE_PRICE",
    "order": "SORT_ORDER_DIRECTION_ASCENDING"
  },
  "pagination": {
    "limit": 20,
    "offset": 0
  },
  "filters": [
    {
      "starsFilter": {
        "values": ["STARS_FOUR_STAR", "STARS_FIVE_STAR"]
      }
    },
    {
      "priceRangeFilter": {
        "minValue": 100.0,
        "maxValue": 300.0
      }
    },
    {
      "mealPlanFilter": {
        "values": ["MEAL_PLAN_TYPE_BREAKFAST_INCLUDED", "MEAL_PLAN_TYPE_ALL_INCLUSIVE"]
      }
    },
    {
      "cancellationTypeFilter": {
        "values": ["CANCELLATION_POLICY_TYPE_FREE_CANCELLATION"]
      }
    }
  ]
}'

API documentation​

For more information please see hotels live prices API documentation