Ctrip Flight Sunrise

What This Skill Does

The Ctrip Flight Sunrise skill is an advanced automation tool designed to extract real-time flight information from the Ctrip (flights.ctrip.com) platform. By leveraging a direct integration with the site's JavaScript-based data structures, this skill provides structured JSON data including airline, pricing, scheduling, and routing information. It is specifically optimized for travelers and developers who need to perform automated flight searches, conduct price comparisons across multiple dates, and monitor fluctuations in airfare for specific routes. By utilizing Cookie-based authentication, the skill mimics legitimate user behavior to retrieve accurate and up-to-date data directly from the source.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/andrew-707/ctrip-flight-sunrise Ensure that you have Python 3 installed in your execution environment. Post-installation, you may need to authenticate the skill by navigating to the official Ctrip website, capturing the current 'FVP' cookie from your browser's Developer Tools (F12 > Application > Cookies), and updating the local self.cookie variable within the script file to ensure continuous access to the flight search engine.

Use Cases

This skill is highly effective for several core scenarios:

1. Automated Price Comparison: Quickly gather data across a range of travel dates to identify the cheapest days for a specific trip.
2. Low-Fare Monitoring: Integrate the output into a custom alerting system to watch for price drops on specific competitive routes.
3. Travel Planning Dashboards: Feed the JSON-formatted output into a travel planner or internal CRM to keep teams or personal projects updated with the latest flight availability.
4. Data Analysis: Generate historical insights regarding airline pricing patterns by periodically running the script and storing the output.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for flights from Beijing to Shanghai for 2026-04-01 and show me the lowest price available."
2. "Compare flight prices for Beijing to Shanghai between 2026-04-01 and 2026-04-03, then save the results to a file named comparison.json."
3. "Find all direct economy flights from Chengdu to Guangzhou on 2026-05-15 and report the average ticket price."

Tips & Limitations

• Cookie Persistence: The primary limitation is the FVP cookie, which is subject to periodic expiration. If the script fails to return data, re-authenticate via your browser and update the script configuration.
• Rate Limiting: Avoid excessive rapid-fire requests to prevent temporary blocks from the platform's security mechanisms.
• Data Completeness: While the skill handles most standard routes well, occasional complex multi-leg tickets or special promotional fares might return incomplete data compared to the full website interface.
• Environment: Ensure your execution directory has write permissions if you plan to utilize the -o output flag to generate JSON files.