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)
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
UA
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)
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
UA
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
0
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
2
Departure terminal
InTerminal
1
Arrival terminal
MarketingCarrier
OK
Marketing carrier of Flight
OperatingCarrier
OK
Operating Carrier of Flight
FlightNumber
0782
Flight number for each leg
BookingCode
W
Booking code for each leg
Cabin
E
Cabin for each leg
Seats
001
Seats for each leg
AvailabilitySource
B
Where availability was obtained
Equipment
E75
Equipment type
SegmentsContinued
1M
Indicates married segments
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