Historical API

Provides shopping results based on general shopping request within designated time period from specific point (s) of sale. Allows to analyze prise fluctuations, off- peak and price jumps for specific destinations

Historical API request

Sample request (type: GET)

https://api.travelcloudpro.eu/v1/cache/history?searchPhrase=20170522IEVWAW&pointOfSale=UA&minSearchDate=2017-01-03&maxSearchDate=2017-01-10

Request parameters

The following table illustrates the minimum required data for cached shopping request.

Name

Example

Description

searchPhrase

20170522IEVWAW

Departure and arrival dates and city codes indicated in shopping request. The format is YYYYMMDDDEPARR, where DEP means Departure city, ARR- arrival city code (do not use airport code)

pointOfSale

Country ISO code where shopping request was generated

minSearchDate

2017-01-03

Departure date marking the beginningof search results streaming

maxSearchDate

2017-01-10

Departure date marking the end of search results streaming

Historical API response

Response example (application/json)

{
    "status": "success",
    "dataAvailable": true,
    "requestId": "42880234-0a5f-11e7-89f3-6b9a48544cdd",
    "executionTimeInMs": 244,
    "originalRequest": {
        "pointOfSale": "UA",
        "searchPhrase": "20170522IEVWAW",
        "minSearchDate": "2017-01-03",
        "maxSearchDate": "2017-01-10"
    },
    "data": {
        "proposalsCount": 1,
        "compressedDataSize": 2914,
        "uncompressedDataSize": 7341,
        "base64GzippedResponse": "H4sIAAAAAAAAA+2Xx67EyG6G3+VsNWPlNDvlnLMMw1ArZ7Wy+uK+u3suYK8MeG8cLUmCJdZfRdb37/...
    }
}

Name

Data type

Description

status

string

Can be "success" or "error". Indicates an error while validating input params and while processing warehouse response. If the status is "error" then errorMessage is provided

dataAvailable

boolean

If value false is returned data is not available either because too distant dates indicated or some mandatory parameters not specified. In the latter

requestId

string

Provides id for an API call

executionTimeInMs

number

Indicates execution time on Amazon servers without time taken to transfer data in and out

originalRequest

object

Indicates parsed request from user

pointOfSale

string

Country ISO code where shopping request was generated.

searchPhrase

string

Departure and arrival dates and city codes indicated in shopping request. The format is YYYYMMDDDEPARR, where DEP means Departure city, ARR- arrival city code (do not use airport code)

minSearchDate

date

Data format: YYYY-MM-DD. Marks the earliest date, starting from which search results are streamed

maxSearchDate

date

Data format: YYYY-MM-DD. Indicates the last date, until which search results are streamed

data

response object

Appears only if status is "success" and dataAvailable is true

proposalsCount

number

Indicates how many proposals are available in response

compressedDataSize

compressed data size in bytes

uncompressedDataSize

uncompressed data size in bytes

base64GzippedResponse

gzipped response in base64 format

Upon decompression of base64GzippedResponse and JSON data display the user should be able to view object containing the following fields:

Name

Data type

Description

pointOfSale

string

Country ISO code where shopping request was generated.

searchPhrase

string

Departure and arrival dates and city codes indicated in shopping request. Original shopping query, containing departure and arrival dates and city indicated in shopping request. The format is YYYYMMDDDEPARR, where DEP means Departure city/airport code ARR- arrival city/airport code

searchDate

date

Date in the format YYYY-MM-DD to which the search results refer

Direct

response object

Contains the cheapest pricing option for direct flight. Also contains gzippedshopping response in base64 format, to which this cheapest option

Connected

response object

Contains the cheapest option for connected flight. Also includes gzipped shopping response in base64 format, to which this chepeast option refers. For more information please see below

Direct

Name

Data type

Description

currency

string

The currency of the PointofSale country.

totalAmount

number

Fare amount for the cheapest option, including taxes in PointofSale currency

validatingCarrier

string

IATA code of the plating carrier

warehouseId

Unique identifier of the particular data in the warehouse (this field changes when new data on the same request is received, while data is still available using warehouseId)

dataSizeInBytes

Size of the compressed data

base64GzippedResponse

Shopping response in which the cheapeast direct offer to this search request was found, gzipped response in base64 format

Shopping reponse contains the following elements:

Headers
Date
Proposals

Header

Name

Example

Description

guid

46de111d-180a-4094-b4bf-4aa435e20b33

Unique id

requestStart

2017/03/11 18:22:02.525

pointOfSale

Country ISO code where shopping request was generated.

originalRequest

20170316IEVWAW20170319WAWIEV

Original shopping query, containing departure and arrival dates and city indicated in shopping request.The format is YYYYMMDDDEPARR, where DEP means Departure city/airport code ARR- arrival city/airport code.

Date

Date and time when data was transmitted to eStreaming API server.

Proposal

Each proposal represents shopping results containing a number of pricing options. A pricing option contains the following elements

Name

Data type

Description

Currency

string

The currency of the PointofSale country.

TotalFareAmount

number

Fare amount including taxes in PointofSale currency

Taxes

number

Tax amount in PointofSale currency

Validating Carrier

string

IATA code of the validating vendor

Legs

number

See more detailed Leg description below

Leg

A leg is basically a part of journey between two cities/airports, that can contain one segment in case of direct flights or multiple flight segments in case of connection or stopover.

Name

Data type

Desctiption

PassengerTypeCode

string

IATA Passenger Type Code (PTC) that normally contains 3 letters: ADT, SRC, CNN etc

Segments

number

Quantity of segments within one leg. See more details below

Segments

Name

Example

Description

FareBasisCode

UUATBAS

The Fare Basic Code (FBC) for this fare

FareType

XPN

Fare type

TechnicalStops

Count of Incidental Stops

Duration

00130

Flight duration, in the format Dhhmm

Origin

PRG

Origin of travel

Destination

WAW

Destination point

DepartureTime

201705220705

Departure date/time in the format (YYYYMMDDhhmm)

ArrivalTime

201705220835

Arrival date/time in the format YYYYMMDDhhmm

OutTerminal

Departure terminal

InTerminal

Arrival terminal

MarketingCarrier

Marketing carrier of Flight

OperatingCarrier

Operating Carrier of Flight

FlightNumber

0782

Flight number for each leg

BookingCode

Booking code for each leg

Cabin

Cabin for each leg

Seats

001

Seats for each leg

AvailabilitySource

Where availability was obtained

Equipment

E75

Equipment type

SegmentsContinued

Indicates married segments

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