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First Choice data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract package holiday pricing, hotel metadata, flight schedules, and availability from First Choice. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Packages tracked
184K /day
Price updates
1.2M /24h
Hotel records
42K /run
Active pipelines
31
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from firstchoice.co.uk

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Package Holidays objects from firstchoice.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

package_idtitledestinationdeparture_airportduration_nightsprice_per_persontotal_priceboard_basisdeparture_datereturn_date
package_holidays
● 200 OK
"package_id": "FC-99281A",
"title": "Holiday Village Atlantica Kos",
"destination": "Marmari, Kos, Greece",
"duration_nights": 7,
"price_per_person": 849.0,
"total_price": 1698.0,
"board_basis": "All Inclusive",
"departure_date": "2026-07-14"
# package_idtitledestinationdeparture_airportduration_nightsprice_per_person
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Complete list of extractable fields for Hotel Metadata objects from firstchoice.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

hotel_idnamelocationstar_ratingtripadvisor_ratingamenitiesimage_urlsdescriptiondistance_to_beachfamily_friendly
hotel_metadata
● 200 OK
"hotel_id": "HTL-4492",
"name": "Holiday Village Atlantica Kos",
"location": "Kos, Greece",
"star_rating": 4.5,
"tripadvisor_rating": 4.0,
"distance_to_beach": "Beachfront",
"family_friendly": true
# hotel_idnamelocationstar_ratingtripadvisor_ratingamenities
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Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Data objects from firstchoice.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_idairlineorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeflight_durationbaggage_allowanceflight_classis_direct
flight_data
● 200 OK
"flight_id": "TOM-4492",
"airline": "TUI Airways",
"origin": "London Gatwick (LGW)",
"destination": "Kos (KGS)",
"departure_time": "2026-07-14T06:15:00Z",
"flight_duration": "4h 05m",
"is_direct": true
# flight_idairlineorigindestinationdeparture_timearrival_time
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Availability objects from firstchoice.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

package_iddate_scrapedavailable_roomstotal_pricediscount_applieddeposit_requiredcancellation_policychild_priceadult_pricecurrency
pricing_& availability
● 200 OK
"package_id": "FC-99281A",
"date_scraped": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z",
"available_rooms": 3,
"total_price": 1698.0,
"discount_applied": 150.0,
"deposit_required": 0.0,
"currency": "GBP"
# package_iddate_scrapedavailable_roomstotal_pricediscount_applieddeposit_required
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from firstchoice.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idhotel_idauthorratingdate_postedreview_texttraveller_typeprosconssource
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-88392",
"hotel_id": "HTL-4492",
"rating": 5,
"date_posted": "2026-04-10",
"traveller_type": "Family",
"source": "TripAdvisor",
"review_text": "Excellent facilities for children and great food options."
# review_idhotel_idauthorratingdate_postedreview_text
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Capabilities

Everything you need from First Choice - nothing you do not

Our First Choice scraper handles complex search flows, dynamic pricing, and availability tracking with JavaScript rendering and session management built in.

Package Pricing Extraction

Capture total price, per person breakdown, and deposit requirements across all available dates and durations.

Flight Schedule Tracking

Extract operating airlines, departure times, arrival times, and baggage rules linked to each holiday package.

Hotel Metadata Collection

Aggregate amenities, official star ratings, descriptions, and high-resolution image URLs for every property.

Availability Monitoring

Track sold out statuses and low inventory warnings to model demand and booking velocity.

Board Basis Options

Extract pricing variations for All Inclusive, Half Board, Bed and Breakfast, and Self Catering configurations.

Departure Airport Mapping

Map regional UK airport availability to specific destinations and track regional price variations.

Discount & Deal Tracking

Capture promotional banners, strike-through prices, and online discount codes applied to final totals.

Review & Rating Aggregation

Extract integrated TripAdvisor scores and native customer feedback embedded within First Choice listings.

Scheduled Pipeline Modes

Run continuous pipelines at daily or hourly cadences with change-detection diffing for price alerts.

// engagement pipeline

From search parameters to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide destination lists, departure airports, or specific hotel IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright crawlers, session management, and rate-limit handling for firstchoice.co.uk.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our First Choice pipeline handles the hard parts

Travel sites rely heavily on session state and dynamic rendering. Here is how we maintain stable data flows.

pipeline-monitor · firstchoice.co.uk · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Session state management
Handling complex search tokens

First Choice relies on complex session tokens to load pricing and availability. We maintain valid search sessions and handle cookie lifecycles to ensure accurate price rendering without triggering bot protections.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution

Search results and dynamic price calendars are heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy-loaded content and hydrate pricing widgets accurately.

Anti-bot layer
UK residential proxy rotation

Travel aggregators block data centre IPs aggressively. Our crawlers use UK residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints to ensure consistent access to regional pricing.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors

We use multiple fallback chains per field, including JSON data object extraction, so minor frontend layout changes do not break your data pipeline.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For large route networks, we maintain a hash index of last-seen prices. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Applications

Who uses First Choice data and how

Teams across industries use firstchoice.co.uk data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Competitor Price Monitoring

Travel agencies and tour operators track First Choice pricing to adjust their own margins and promotional offers.

02
Yield Management

Airlines and hoteliers monitor package prices to understand how their inventory is being bundled and sold to consumers.

03
Market Trend Analysis

Analysts track destination popularity, average duration trends, and seasonal price fluctuations across the UK outbound market.

04
Aggregator Feeds

Meta-search engines integrate structured First Choice data to provide comprehensive comparison tools for holidaymakers.

05
Demand Forecasting

Supply chain teams correlate sold-out indicators and price increases with regional demand to forecast travel volume.

06
Inventory Tracking

Competitors track the availability of specific room types and flight routes to identify supply shortages in the market.

Why DataFlirt

"First Choice holds critical pricing signals for the UK outbound travel market, but extracting accurate package totals requires executing complex search flows."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of travel scraping. Extracting accurate pricing from firstchoice.co.uk requires maintaining session state, rendering dynamic search results, and handling strict rate limits. DataFlirt manages this infrastructure so your engineers can focus on pricing models and market analysis.

Technical Spec

First Choice scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our firstchoice.co.uk scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic search results and price calendars
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from UK pools to access correct regional pricing
Supported
Session management
Maintains search tokens and cookies to extract accurate final totals
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed prices since last run
Supported
Flight schedule mapping
Extracts detailed outbound and inbound flight metadata linked to packages
Supported
Customer booking history
Gated personal data requiring user authentication
Partial
User account loyalty points
Private account details and reward balances
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the First Choice pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusBigQuerySnowflake
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles orchestration and retry logic. Playwright manages complex search flows, cookie sessions, and JavaScript rendering.

UK Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of UK residential ISP proxies to ensure accurate localized pricing and avoid data centre blocking.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for Excel and Sheets
XLS
Legacy spreadsheet format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query latest extracted records
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About firstchoice.co.uk scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping First Choice legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and availability information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle dynamic pricing and session tokens?

Our infrastructure uses full Playwright browser sessions to execute the exact search flows a human would. We maintain the required session cookies and tokens to ensure the prices extracted reflect accurate, bookable totals.

Can you extract prices for specific departure airports?

Yes. We can configure the pipeline to search for packages originating from specific UK regional airports to map price variations across different departure points.

How fresh is the data?

Pipelines can be configured for daily refreshes across a broad set of destinations, or higher frequency hourly checks for specific high-value routes or hotels.

Do you capture all board basis options?

Yes. We extract the pricing increments for All Inclusive, Half Board, and Self Catering options where available for a given property.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined list of destinations or hotels with daily delivery. We price based on search volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=firstchoice.co.uk ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a daily extract of Mediterranean package prices or continuous monitoring of specific hotel inventory, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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