SkyScrooge

60$ difference in flight fares for the same flight when booked in the US vs when booked in Singapore
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Inspiration

** We noticed that flight fares sometimes differed significantly when we compared prices in Singapore and in India.

What it does

**SkyScrooge compares fares across different country versions of the SkyScanner website to bring the cheapest fares across all booking countries. The user can input his/her travel details as on any other travel website and get the cheapest fares. We provide a deeplink to the travel's agents webpage for the specific fare.

How we built it

** We fetched data using the SkyScanner Live Flights API and processed it using Python's Pandas library . We used Python's Flask micro-framework for our backend and Bootstrap and JQuery for our front-end.

Challenges we ran into

**API call limits, Learning how to use JQuery to manipulate the HTML DOM,efficiently processing JSON data into Pandas dataframes

Accomplishments that we're proud of

** We managed to successfully build the web application and successfully achieved our goal of providing the cheapest prices across different country versions of the SkyScanner website.