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Real fares, from the right point of sale, from sites built to stop you

Airline and hotel pricing collected past the heaviest anti-bot on the web, localised to the market you sell in, fresh enough to book.

Failed requests freeTraffic never expires24-hour refund on unused plans
Fare searchIllustrative values

Same seat, same dates. Which fare is real depends on where the customer is.

Key takeaway

Travel fare aggregation depends on the fare a local traveller sees. Residential and mobile proxies put your own collector on a local IP; the Unlocker API returns fare pages as structured JSON with anti-bot checks handled. Failed requests are free.

Why travel fare aggregation is hard to do at scale

Travel sites are among the most heavily defended on the internet, and the defence is aimed at exactly one thing: fare scraping. Airlines and booking engines deploy the strictest anti-bot stacks and rotate them often.

Fares are also hyper-local. The same seat costs different amounts depending on the country the search comes from, the currency, and the point of sale. Collect from the wrong place and you have a number nobody can book.

And the fare often does not live at a URL. It exists only after a search: origin, destination, dates, passengers. A collector that can only fetch pages cannot reach it.

How Datafuel handles travel fare aggregation

The Unlocker API is built for the protections travel sites use. It handles rendering, fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs inside the request and returns the fare data, from a network that airlines cannot distinguish from real travellers.

Residential and mobile proxies with country-level targeting put every search at the right point of sale, so the fare you collect is the fare a customer in that market would pay. For engines where the result only exists after a search flow, the Cloud Browser will run the search and capture the result. Cloud Browser is coming soon.

URL versus flow
Two paths

Keep your collector and fix the network, or hand us the URL. Same IPs, same billing rule.

Residential proxiesUnlocker API
You bringyour own scraper and parsera URL, and a schema if you want JSON
You getthe raw page from a local residential IPMarkdown or structured JSON, past any protection
Targetingcountry · region · city · ASN · OScountry and city, per request
CAPTCHAshandled by your scraperhandled inside the request
Billingper GB, traffic never expiresper successful request, credits never expire
Best whenyou already run a working scraperyou want pages without maintaining a parser

Many teams use both: the API for the pages that block, proxies for the collectors they already run.

Products for travel fare aggregation

Same price on every use case. Failed requests are free and purchased traffic never expires.

If you run your own collectorResidential Proxieswas $4.50, now $3.15 $4.50per GB46M+ consent-based household IPs, 195+ countries, city and ASN targeting.
  • 46M+ consent-based household IPs
  • Rotating or sticky up to 24h
  • Region, city, ASN targeting
  • HTTP(S) & SOCKS5
  • Traffic never expires
If you want fares as dataUnlocker APIwas $0.042, now $0.029 $0.042per 1KAny page past any protection, returned as Markdown or structured JSON.
  • Any page past any protection
  • CAPTCHAs handled inside the request
  • Markdown, JSON, HTML or screenshot
  • Failed requests are free
  • MCP ready

How it works

  1. 01Define routes, dates, points of sale and cadence.
  2. 02Datafuel runs each search from an IP in the target market, through the Unlocker. Engines that need a search form will run on the Cloud Browser, coming soon.
  3. 03Fares, availability and fare rules return as structured data on your schedule.
Try it on your own targets. Failed requests are free.Start free

What to watch for

  • Fares expire in minutes. Collect close to when you will use the data, not on a nightly batch.
  • Fare rules matter as much as the fare. Capture the conditions, not only the price.
  • Travel sites update defences often. Expect success rates to move; the per-domain dashboard shows when.

Travel fare aggregation — frequently asked questions

Which travel sites can you reach?
The Unlocker handles the anti-bot stacks travel sites use. Success rates per domain are visible in the dashboard.
Can I search from a specific country?
Yes. Country, and where available city, targeting on residential and mobile networks.
What about sites where the fare only appears after a search?
That is the job of the Cloud Browser, which is coming soon. It will run the search flow and return the result.
How fresh is the data?
As fresh as your cadence. Real-time on request; scheduled runs down to minutes.
Is this permitted?
Fare aggregation is an established practice; our compliance documentation and acceptable use policy set out how we operate.
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