Recipe · Flights API
One-way flight search with OpenClaw
The agent searches live Google Flights data and answers with fares it can actually judge: every result carries Google’s historical price band and a low | typical | high verdict, so “is the price any good” is a field read, not a guess. The buy_link hands the user a working booking deep link.
Free tier on RapidAPI. No card to try.
Step 1 · Connect
Install the ClawHub skill
Also available: clawhub.ai/mtnrabi/booking-hotel-search for hotels. The skill wraps the same live API with your key.
clawhub install mtnrabi/google-flights-realtime-apiBring your own RapidAPI key: every request is billed to your own subscription, never ours.
Step 2 · Ask it
The prompt
Verbatim: paste it, or anything shaped like it. The agent maps it to the call below.
“Find me a nonstop JFK to Cancun flight on January 1 and tell me if the price is any good.”
Step 3 · Under the hood
What the skill calls
The skill calls the same API with your key. This is the call behind the answer, with real parameter names.
// search_oneway_flights
{
"from_airport": "JFK",
"to_airport": "CUN",
"departure_date": "2027-01-01",
"max_stops": 0,
"limit": 5
}Step 4 · Read the response
Fields your logic reads
The response is flat JSON. These are the fields this recipe branches on, with what each one means.
pricestringThe fare as Google Flights displays it: “$56”. The numeric twin price_as_number rides alongside for sorting and arithmetic.
price_insights_lownumber | nullThe bottom of Google’s historical price band for this route and dates. Null when Google doesn’t publish a band: treat the fare as unjudged, not bad.
price_insights_highnumber | nullThe top of the band. A fare above it is expensive for the route by Google’s own history.
price_range_in_relation_to_other_periods"low" | "typical" | "high" | nullGoogle’s verdict on the current fare against that band, the single field alerting, ranking, and “book now” logic branch on.
buy_linkstring (URL)A Google Flights deep link that reopens this exact itinerary. Hand it to the user; it just works.
Questions, answered plainly
- Is my key billed to me?
- Yes. The skill uses your own RapidAPI key, so every call meters against your own subscription on RapidAPI. There is no FlightPowers account and no second bill.
- Does this need a server of mine?
- No. The skill runs inside OpenClaw and calls the hosted API over the network. Nothing to deploy, nothing to keep warm.
- What does it cost?
- The Google Flights Live API's free tier is 10 requests/month with a hard cap: enough to verify your key works, not to evaluate. The PRO plan is $10/month for 2,500 requests, and every plan includes every endpoint.
Also works with
One-way flight search, elsewhere in your stack
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Ready to judge a fare, not just fetch it?
Live Google Flights and Booking.com data, with the price band and verdict attached to every result. Free tier on RapidAPI, no card to try.
Free tier: 10 requests/month. No card to try.