How to get a session key from a Skyscanner API Submit request - Ruby
In my application, I want to get pricing information for the direct price of a flight. I used the SkyScanner API for this . I read the documentation before the resulting data I need to create a pricing service session. Which can be generated by the post api and then it provides SessionKey
with these SessionKey
and apiKey
, I can recover the data. So how can I get the Sessionkey as I figured it should be provided by the API server.
Here's my attempt:
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
post_params = {
:apiKey => "[API_KEY]",
:country => "GB",
:currency => "GBP",
:locale => "en-GB",
:adults =>1,
:children => 0,
:infants => 0,
:originplace => '11235',
:destinationplace => '13554',
:outbounddate => '2015-05-19',
:inbounddate => '2015-05-26',
:locationschema => 'Default',
:cabinclass => 'Economy',
:groupPricing => true
}
sessionkey_request = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/v1.0'), post_params )
get_data= "http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/v1.0/?apiKey=[API_KEY]"
puts sessionkey_request.inspect
temp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(get_data)).body
# puts temp
In the console I get
<Net::HTTPCreated 201 Created readbody=true> # sessionkey_request.inspect
Don't get a SessionKey in response without it I can't get data. Please guide me where I am wrong. I am grateful for the solution.
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Note. I have a check gem 'skyscanner' but that doesn't provide any method for Live Price. It provides methods to view the cache.
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According to the document:
Successful response contains no content. The URL of the survey booking details are specified in the Location header of the response
try this:
sessionkey_request["location"]
I tested it on my system and it returns me:
http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/v1.0/8e28260becd3441ca4e865396e224e7d_ecilpojl_EC71481935CEBB7EAF661BC24940D01D
The last part is yours sessionKey
, which you can use to query GET
. If you only want the last part (sessionKey), you can get it:
> url = "http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/v1.0/8e28260becd3441ca4e865396e224e7d_ecilpojl_EC71481935CEBB7EAF661BC24940D01D"
> url.split('/').last
=> "8e28260becd3441ca4e865396e224e7d_ecilpojl_EC71481935CEBB7EAF661BC24940D01D"
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