# KAYAK Flight Scraper (`parseforge/kayak-scraper`) Actor

Collect flight pricing and route data from KAYAK including airline names, ticket prices, flight durations, airport details with coordinates, cheapest travel days, and booking recommendations. Monitor fare trends across any origin-destination pair.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/kayak-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 5 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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```bash
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# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
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```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## ✈️ KAYAK Flight Scraper

> 🕒 **Last updated:** 2026-05-05


Collect flight fares and route data from KAYAK's flight route pages without any coding. Extract airline names, prices, departure times, airport codes, and geographic coordinates for hundreds of flight routes. Perfect for travel agencies, price monitoring, and research who need to download KAYAK flight data as CSV or JSON.

> **The KAYAK Flight Scraper collects real-time flight fares and schedule data from KAYAK route pages, with up to 1 million flights per run, plus no proxy required.**

### ✨ What Does It Do

- 💰 **Price** - Compare fares to identify trends and competitive opportunities
- ✈️ **Airline Name and Code** - Track carriers for competitive analysis
- 📅 **Departure Time** - Monitor schedule options to understand frequency and timing
- ⏱️ **Flight Duration** - Evaluate route efficiency and connection times
- 📍 **Airport Codes and Names** - Get IATA codes and full airport names
- 🌍 **Airport Coordinates** - Use latitude and longitude for geographic mapping
- 📋 **Route URL** - Track the source page for data lineage
- 🕐 **Scrape Timestamp** - Record when data was collected for historical tracking

### 🔧 Input

- **Start URL** - KAYAK flight route page URL (e.g., https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX)
- **Max Items** - How many flight results to collect per run (free users: up to 10, paid users: up to 1,000,000)
- **Max Concurrency** - Control parallel request speed (default: 5, max: 50)

Example input:
```json
{
  "startUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
````

### 📊 Output

Each flight includes up to 14 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

| 💰 Price | 💵 Currency | ✈️ Airline Name |
|---|---|---|
| 🛫 Airline Code | 📅 Departure Time | ⏱️ Flight Duration |
| 🏙️ Departure Airport | 🔤 Departure Code | 📍 Departure Latitude |
| 📍 Departure Longitude | 🏙️ Arrival Airport | 🔤 Arrival Code |
| 📍 Arrival Latitude | 📍 Arrival Longitude | 🔗 Route URL |
| 🕐 Scraped At | ⚠️ Error Status | |

### 💎 Why Choose the KAYAK Flight Scraper?

| Feature | Our Actor |
|---|---|
| Collects fares and schedule data from KAYAK routes | ✔️ |
| No proxy required for static flight route pages | ✔️ |
| Extract up to 1,000,000 flights per run | ✔️ |
| Airport coordinates included for geographic mapping | ✔️ |
| Airline IATA codes for easy data integration | ✔️ |
| Real-time departure times and flight durations | ✔️ |
| CSV, Excel, and JSON export formats | ✔️ |
| Historical timestamp tracking for trend analysis | ✔️ |
| Automatic rate-limit handling with concurrency control | ✔️ |
| Free preview mode (10 items) for testing | ✔️ |
| Pay-per-result option for larger runs | ✔️ |
| Error logging and data validation | ✔️ |

### 📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. **Sign Up** - [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. **Find the Tool** - Search for "KAYAK Flight Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. **Run It** - Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

### 🎯 Business Use Cases

- 💼 **Travel Agency Manager** - Monitor competitor fares on high-volume routes like JFK-LAX during peak seasons to adjust package offerings before promotional deadlines
- 📊 **Price Analyst** - Track airline schedules and departure times across multiple routes to detect capacity shifts and forecast fare trends
- 🔬 **Travel Tech Developer** - Extract flight duration and airport coordinates to build route recommendation algorithms for travel time optimization

***

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### ✨ Why choose this Actor

| | Capability |
|---|---|
| 🎯 | **Built for the job.** Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely. |
| 🔖 | **Structured output.** Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines. |
| ⚡ | **Fast.** Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes. |
| 🔁 | **Always fresh.** Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time. |
| 🌐 | **No infra to manage.** Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage. |
| 🛡️ | **Reliable.** Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling. |
| 🚫 | **No code required.** Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK. |

> 📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

***

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Approach | Cost | Coverage | Refresh | Filters | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **⭐ KAYAK Flight Scraper** *(this Actor)* | $5 free credit, then pay-per-use | Full source coverage | **Live per run** | Source-native filters supported | ⚡ 2 min |
| Build your own scraper | Engineering hours | Full once built | Whenever you maintain it | Custom code | 🐢 Days to weeks |
| Paid managed APIs | $$$ monthly | Vendor-defined | Live | Vendor-defined | ⏳ Hours |
| Third-party data dumps | Varies | Subset, often stale | Periodic | None | 🕒 Variable |

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

***

### 🚀 How to use

1. 📝 **Sign up.** [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 **Open the Actor.** Go to the KAYAK Flight Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 **Set input.** Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set <code>maxItems</code>.
4. 🚀 **Run it.** Click **Start** and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 **Download.** Grab your results in the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

> ⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: **3-5 minutes.** No coding required.

***

### 💼 Business use cases

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<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 📊 Data & Analytics

- Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data
- Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records
- Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time
- Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields

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#### 🏢 Operations & Strategy

- Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts
- Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data
- Power workflows that depend on fresh source records
- Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes

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#### 🎯 Marketing & Growth

- Identify market opportunities and trending topics
- Research target audiences and customer personas at scale
- Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records
- Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time

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#### 🛠️ Engineering & Product

- Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler
- Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor
- Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks
- Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

</td>
</tr>
</table>

***

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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<tr>
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#### 🎓 Research and academia

- Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework
- Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots
- Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls
- Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping

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<td width="50%">

#### 🎨 Personal and creative

- Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches
- Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics
- Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters
- Hobbyist collections and personal trackers

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</tr>
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#### 🤝 Non-profit and civic

- Transparency reporting and accountability projects
- Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data
- Community-run databases for local issues
- Investigative journalism on public records

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<td width="50%">

#### 🧪 Experimentation

- Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data
- Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend
- Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora
- Test dashboard concepts with live input

</td>
</tr>
</table>

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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- 💬 [**ChatGPT**](https://chat.openai.com/?q=How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20KAYAK%20Flight%20Scraper%20by%20ParseForge%20on%20Apify%3F%20Show%20me%20input%20examples%2C%20output%20fields%2C%20common%20use%20cases%2C%20and%20how%20to%20integrate%20it%20into%20a%20workflow.)
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### 💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you **$5 in free monthly credits** on the [Apify Free plan](https://apify.com/pricing), enough to test KAYAK Flight Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

- **Starter plan ($49/month)** — Recommended for individuals running KAYAK Flight Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
- **Scale plan ($499/month)** — Recommended for teams running KAYAK Flight Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the **Pricing** tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

### 💡 Tips for using KAYAK Flight Scraper

- **Start with a small <code>maxItems</code>** (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
- **Use Apify Schedules** to run KAYAK Flight Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
- **Export via Integrations**: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
- **Monitor with webhooks**: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
- **Re-run failed items**: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

### ⚖️ Is it legal to use KAYAK Flight Scraper?

Yes. KAYAK Flight Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see [hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn)) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

- Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
- Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
- Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the [Apify legal docs](https://docs.apify.com/legal) for more.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

<details>
<summary><b>💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?</b></summary>

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes **$5 in free monthly credit**. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. [Create a free Apify account here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) to get started.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?</b></summary>

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📏 How many items can I scrape per run?</b></summary>

Free users are limited to **10 items per run** so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise <code>maxItems</code> up to **1,000,000** per run. [Upgrade here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) if you need full scale.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🕒 How fresh is the data?</b></summary>

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?</b></summary>

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for [Node.js](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python). You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📤 How do I export the data?</b></summary>

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?</b></summary>

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

***

</details>

### 🔗 Integrate KAYAK Flight Scraper with any app

- [Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Automate workflows
- [Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Connect 5000+ apps
- [GitHub](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github) - Version control integration
- [Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Get notifications
- [Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Data pipelines
- [Google Drive](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Export to spreadsheets

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

KAYAK Flight Scraper connects to any cloud service via [Apify integrations](https://apify.com/integrations):

- [**Make**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Automate multi-step workflows
- [**Zapier**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Connect with 5,000+ apps
- [**Slack**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Get run notifications in your channels
- [**Airbyte**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Pipe results into your warehouse
- [**GitHub**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github) - Trigger runs from commits and releases
- [**Google Drive**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

***

### 💡 More ParseForge Actors

- [Revzilla Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/revzilla-scraper) - Extract motorcycle gear, prices, and reviews
- [SEC Forms Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/sec-forms-scraper) - Collect SEC filing data and financial documents
- [Indexmundi Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/indexmundi-scraper) - Scrape commodity prices and economic indicators
- [Auctiontime Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/auctiontime-scraper) - Collect heavy equipment auction data and bids
- [Gamenation Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/gamenation-scraper) - Extract game reviews and ratings

Browse our complete collection of [data extraction tools](https://apify.com/parseforge) for more.

### 🚀 Ready to Start?

[Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

### 🆘 Need Help?

- Check the FAQ section for common questions
- Visit the [Apify support page](https://docs.apify.com) for documentation and tutorials
- Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at [Tally contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

> This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by KAYAK or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

***

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [**🔍 Google Search Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/google-search-scraper) - Multi-engine SERP results with country and language targeting
- [**🗺️ Nominatim OSM Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/nominatim-osm-scraper) - Geocode addresses via OpenStreetMap
- [**📊 Indexmundi Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/indexmundi-scraper) - Global demographic and economic indicators
- [**📰 RAG Web Browser**](https://apify.com/parseforge/rag-web-browser) - Crawl and extract clean text from any URL for AI retrieval
- [**🌐 Website Content Crawler**](https://apify.com/parseforge/website-content-crawler) - Crawl entire sites and export structured content

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for more reference-data scrapers.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrl` (type: `string`):

URL of a KAYAK flight route page (e.g. https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX). If provided, origin/destination fields below are ignored.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000.

## `origin` (type: `string`):

Origin airport or city slug as it appears in KAYAK URLs (e.g. 'New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK' or 'Los-Angeles-LAX'). Used only when Start URL is empty.

## `destination` (type: `string`):

Destination airport or city slug as it appears in KAYAK URLs (e.g. 'London-Heathrow-LHR' or 'Miami-MIA'). Used only when Start URL is empty.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of parallel requests. Lower this if you get rate-limited.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies recommended for reliable extraction.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with all scraped items

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/kayak-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/kayak-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK/Los-Angeles-LAX",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call parseforge/kayak-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/kayak-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "KAYAK Flight Scraper",
        "description": "Collect flight pricing and route data from KAYAK including airline names, ticket prices, flight durations, airport details with coordinates, cheapest travel days, and booking recommendations. Monitor fare trends across any origin-destination pair.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "cCtjACcTt6PBUD1dg"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/parseforge~kayak-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-kayak-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
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                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-kayak-scraper",
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                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
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                        }
                    }
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            }
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                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
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                }
            }
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                    "maxItems": {
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                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000."
                    },
                    "origin": {
                        "title": "Origin",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Origin airport or city slug as it appears in KAYAK URLs (e.g. 'New-York-John-F-Kennedy-Intl-JFK' or 'Los-Angeles-LAX'). Used only when Start URL is empty."
                    },
                    "destination": {
                        "title": "Destination",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Destination airport or city slug as it appears in KAYAK URLs (e.g. 'London-Heathrow-LHR' or 'Miami-MIA'). Used only when Start URL is empty."
                    },
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                        "title": "Max Concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of parallel requests. Lower this if you get rate-limited.",
                        "default": 5
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Residential proxies recommended for reliable extraction."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
