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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)

https://api.travelcloudpro.eu/v1/cache/history?searchPhrase=20170522IEVWAW&pointOfSale=UA&minSearchDate=2017-01-03&maxSearchDate=2017-01-10

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)

{
    "status": "success",
    "dataAvailable": true,
    "requestId": "42880234-0a5f-11e7-89f3-6b9a48544cdd",
    "executionTimeInMs": 244,
    "originalRequest": {
        "pointOfSale": "UA",
        "searchPhrase": "20170522IEVWAW",
        "minSearchDate": "2017-01-03",
        "maxSearchDate": "2017-01-10"
    },
    "data": {
        "proposalsCount": 1,
        "compressedDataSize": 2914,
        "uncompressedDataSize": 7341,
        "base64GzippedResponse": "H4sIAAAAAAAAA+2Xx67EyG6G3+VsNWPlNDvlnLMMw1ArZ7Wy+uK+u3suYK8MeG8cLUmCJdZfRdb37/...
    }
}
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