Skyscanner point of sale hack to get the cheapest prices by changing the country of sale until the cheapest routes are determined instead of using a VPN. Sometimes saves up to $1,000

skyscanner-point-of-sale-hack.py

'''You first have to install the skyscanner python sdk by 'pip install skyscanner' '''
'''You also have to get an api key from skyscanner before using this'''

from skyscanner.skyscanner import FlightsCache
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json

''' Get the country codes'''

url = 'http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/reference/v1.0/countries/en-US?apiKey={apikey}'
request = urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')
obj = json.loads(request)
countries = obj['Countries']
markets = []

for i in countries:
    markets.append(i['Code'])

'''Get the cached flights '''
flights_cache_service = FlightsCache('<api-key>')
result = {}
cheapest_countries = []
'''Go through every market and append the result to the results dictionary'''
for i in markets:
    response = result.update(flights_cache_service.get_cheapest_quotes(market=i,currency='USD',locale='en-US', originplace='JFK-sky',destinationplace='CDG-sky',outbounddate='2017-04-18', inbounddate='2017-04-28').parsed)
    if(response):
        result.update(response)

sorted_list = sorted(result['Quotes'], key=lambda q: q['MinPrice'])
print(sorted_list[:10])