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RUN - 187 active pipelines - kayak.com live

Kayak travel data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight itineraries, dynamic pricing, hotel rates, Hacker Fares, and car rental inventory from Kayak. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights extracted
4.2M /day
Price updates
28.4M /24h
Hotel rates
1.1M /run
Active pipelines
187
Uptime
99.95%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from kayak.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Flights objects from kayak.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeairlineflight_numbercabin_classpricecurrencystopsdurationlayover_airportshacker_fare
flights
● 200 OK
"origin": "LHR",
"destination": "JFK",
"departure_time": "2026-08-12T08:30:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2026-08-12T11:15:00Z",
"airline": "British Airways",
"flight_number": "BA117",
"price": 482.5,
"currency": "GBP",
"stops": 0,
"hacker_fare": false
# origindestinationdeparture_timearrival_timeairlineflight_number
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Complete list of extractable fields for Hotels objects from kayak.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_namelocationstar_ratingguest_ratingreview_countprice_per_nighttotal_pricecurrencyroom_typeamenitiesprovider
hotels
● 200 OK
"property_name": "The Plaza",
"location": "New York City, NY",
"star_rating": 5.0,
"guest_rating": 9.2,
"review_count": 3412,
"price_per_night": 850.0,
"currency": "USD",
"provider": "Booking.com"
# property_namelocationstar_ratingguest_ratingreview_countprice_per_night
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Complete list of extractable fields for Car Rentals objects from kayak.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

pickup_locationdropoff_locationcar_typeagencycapacitytransmissionprice_per_daytotal_pricecurrencymileage_policy
car_rentals
● 200 OK
"pickup_location": "JFK Airport",
"car_type": "Midsize SUV",
"agency": "Hertz",
"transmission": "Automatic",
"price_per_day": 64.0,
"total_price": 448.0,
"currency": "USD",
"mileage_policy": "Unlimited"
# pickup_locationdropoff_locationcar_typeagencycapacitytransmission
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Complete list of extractable fields for Packages objects from kayak.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

package_iddestinationflight_includedhotel_includedduration_daystotal_pricecurrencydeparture_datereturn_datesavings_pct
packages
● 200 OK
"destination": "Cancun, Mexico",
"flight_included": true,
"hotel_included": true,
"duration_days": 7,
"total_price": 1250.0,
"currency": "USD",
"departure_date": "2026-11-01",
"return_date": "2026-11-08"
# package_iddestinationflight_includedhotel_includedduration_daystotal_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Providers objects from kayak.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

provider_nameprovider_typebooking_urlbase_faretaxes_feestotal_farecurrencybaggage_includedcancellation_policy
providers
● 200 OK
"provider_name": "Expedia",
"provider_type": "OTA",
"base_fare": 410.0,
"taxes_fees": 72.5,
"total_fare": 482.5,
"currency": "GBP",
"baggage_included": false,
"cancellation_policy": "Non-refundable"
# provider_nameprovider_typebooking_urlbase_faretaxes_feestotal_fare
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Kayak - nothing you don't

Our Kayak scraper handles every layer of the platform: flight matrices, dynamic hotel pricing, Hacker Fares, and aggregator redirects - with JavaScript rendering, session management, and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Flight Matrix Extraction

Origin, destination, dates, airlines, layovers, and cabin classes - scraped across millions of route combinations.

Hacker Fare Detection

Identify split tickets across different airlines that Kayak bundles into single itineraries for cheaper fares.

Hotel Rate Tracking

Extract pricing across multiple OTAs, room types, and cancellation policies for global properties.

Geo-Spoofing

Extract prices from specific Point of Sale (POS) regions to track geo-dependent pricing discrepancies.

Baggage & Fee Extraction

Differentiate base fares from total fares including taxes, fees, and checked baggage allowances.

Car Rental Inventory

Track agencies, vehicle types, pickup locations, and daily rates across major airports and cities.

Multi-City Routing

Capture complex itineraries and multi-leg pricing structures that standard OTA APIs omit.

Provider Redirect URLs

Capture deep links to the actual booking OTAs and airline websites from Kayak's interface.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run daily global crawls or configure continuous hourly pipelines for high-volatility route monitoring.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide airport pairs, dates, hotel IDs, or car rental locations. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA handling for kayak.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

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

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Kayak pipeline handles the hard parts

Travel aggregators heavily protect their pricing data. Here is how we stay resilient - and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · kayak.com · 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
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

Travel aggregators use aggressive bot detection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for SPA content

Kayak flight results are heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions with JavaScript execution and lazy-load triggering to capture full matrices.

Geo-dependent pricing
Point-of-Sale proxy routing

Prices change based on where the user searches from. We route requests through specific regional proxies to capture accurate local pricing and currency data.

Dynamic DOM parsing
Resilient selectors for flight matrices

Kayak frequently tests new UI layouts. Our selector strategy uses fallback chains to ensure a layout change does not break your data pipeline.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs. We alert on null-rate spikes, missing routes, and coverage drops - and respond before you notice.

Applications

Who uses Kayak data - and how

Teams across industries use kayak.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Parity Monitoring

OTAs and airlines monitor their placement and pricing against competitors on aggregator platforms.

02
Revenue Management

Airlines track competitor pricing on specific routes to optimise their own dynamic pricing models.

03
Market Research

Analysts track route profitability, new airline launches, and seasonal demand fluctuations.

04
Corporate Travel Optimisation

Travel management companies track average fares to build accurate client budgets and policy caps.

05
AI Training Data

ML teams use historical flight pricing datasets to train fare prediction and recommendation engines.

06
Arbitrage Detection

Travel agencies identify Hacker Fares and ticketing anomalies to build cheaper custom itineraries.

Why DataFlirt

"Kayak aggregates the world's travel inventory into a single interface, but extracting that pricing matrix at scale requires serious infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Kayak scraping requires global residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis - not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Kayak scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our kayak.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions - required for flight matrices and dynamic pricing
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration for Akamai/DataDome blocks
Supported
Point-of-Sale (POS) spoofing
Extract prices using proxies from specific countries to reveal geo-pricing
Supported
Hacker Fare extraction
Identify and extract split-ticket itineraries bundled by Kayak
Supported
Deep link capture
Extract redirect URLs to the actual booking provider
Supported
Multi-currency extraction
Capture base fares and taxes in local or converted currencies
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed prices since last run
Supported
Kayak Trips / User Itineraries
Gated user data regarding past bookings and saved trips
Partial
Private Loyalty Pricing
Special rates requiring authenticated user sessions
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Kayak pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows for flight searches.

Global Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions. Rotation happens per-request to simulate diverse user traffic.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoint to query latest extractions
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About kayak.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Kayak legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing information from Kayak is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated flight and hotel data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle Kayak's anti-bot systems?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for CAPTCHA rate spikes in real time and trigger solver queues automatically.

Can you extract prices for specific regions (POS)?

Yes. We route requests through residential proxies located in your target countries to capture Point-of-Sale dependent pricing accurately.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for price signals on a defined route set. Full catalogue refreshes complete within a 6-12 hour window depending on size.

Can you extract Hacker Fares?

Yes. We identify and extract split-ticket itineraries, detailing the individual legs and respective airlines that make up the Hacker Fare.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined route list (e.g., 5,000 airport pairs) with daily delivery. Contact us with your use case for a scoped quote.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 100 routes or hotel searches as part of the pre-engagement scoping process.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=kayak.com 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 one-off hotel rate dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 100,000 flight routes - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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