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Google Flights Toolkit
Arcade's Google Flights toolkit lets LLMs search flights, resolve booking options, and look up airport codes via the SerpApi Google Flights API — no user auth required.
Capabilities
- Airport lookup: Resolve city names, country names, or airport names to IATA codes, including metropolitan area codes (NYC, LON, TYO) that match any airport in a metro area.
- One-way & round-trip search: Search itineraries in a single call; round-trip fares are priced independently from one-way fares, so a single round-trip query is required rather than summing two one-ways. Results include direct Google Flights URLs for immediate user hand-off.
- Multi-city (open-jaw) search: Query multi-leg itineraries as a single bundle, which is typically cheaper than equivalent summed one-ways. Results also include direct Google Flights URLs.
- Booking option resolution: Resolve a
booking_tokenfrom any search result to the airlines and OTAs selling that specific itinerary, with optional POST data for backend vendor hand-off workflows.
Secrets
SERP_API_KEY— A SerpApi API key used to authenticate all requests to the Google Flights endpoint. Obtain it by creating an account at SerpApi, then navigating to your dashboard where your private API key is displayed. Free-tier accounts have a limited monthly search quota; paid plans are required for higher volume. The key is passed with every request and must be stored as an Arcade secret.
See Arcade secret configuration docs for how to store secrets, or manage them at https://api.arcade.dev/dashboard/auth/secrets.
Available tools(4)
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Operations
Behavior
| Tool name | Description | Secrets | |
|---|---|---|---|
Resolve a ``booking_token`` to the airlines and OTAs selling that itinerary.
Pass a ``booking_token`` from a one-way, round-trip, or multi-city
flight search result to get the vendors selling that specific
flight. The token encodes the route, dates, cabin class,
and passenger counts (every segment for multi-city), so there are
no ``travel_class``, ``num_adults``, or ``num_children`` parameters;
supplying a cabin or party size would silently disagree with the
itinerary the token was issued for.
Leave ``include_booking_post_data`` off (the default) when an LLM
is comparing prices; turn it on only when a backend needs to
rebuild the vendor hand-off, since the POST body is multiple
kilobytes per option. | 1 | ||
Find IATA airport codes for a city, country, or airport name.
Metropolitan codes (NYC, LON, TYO, PAR, ...) are accepted as a
``departure_airport_code`` or ``arrival_airport_code`` in flight
searches and mean "any airport in this city". | |||
Search Google Flights for one-way or round-trip itineraries.
For a trip where the traveler returns to their origin, issue a
single call with both ``outbound_date`` and ``return_date`` set.
Do NOT issue two separate one-way searches in opposite directions
and sum the prices: airlines price round-trip fares independently
from one-way fares, so the sum of two cheapest one-ways is rarely
equal to the cheapest round-trip and is typically more expensive.
Each returned itinerary carries a ``google_flights_url`` that opens
that specific pre-selected flight on Google Flights, so you can hand
the user a booking link straight from these results without a
separate booking-options lookup. | 1 | ||
Search Google Flights for a multi-city (open-jaw) itinerary.
Use this for trips that are neither a simple one-way nor a round-trip
(e.g. an open-jaw three-leg trip that ends back at the origin).
The open-jaw bundle is typically cheaper than the equivalent set
of one-way searches summed; never substitute several one-way
searches for a single multi-city query.
Each returned itinerary carries a ``google_flights_url`` that opens
that specific pre-selected itinerary on Google Flights, so you can
hand the user a booking link straight from these results without a
separate booking-options lookup. | 1 |
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