Getting plain text response when hitting skyscanner api

Question

I am getting the following response when I try to poll the url : "The response is plain."

How can I get only the url or get the entire data in json format?

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:37:08 GMT
Location: http://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/pricing/sg1/v1.0/d33ed2cb519c42379f765614341274f8_ecilpojl_691C03C565B7657815CF2C9FCC3B2730
Content-Length: 2

{}

If you go to the url given in the response it complains about the API key. Perhaps that's the problem? — Anonymous, Jun 15 '16 at 17:44
@Anonymous I've tried this in postman and I got no reponse. This is what I got by using curl. The doc from skyscanner says you have to poll the url from response header — Udit, Jun 15 '16 at 18:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '16 at 07:01

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So the URL to get the prices is in the Location field in the headers (as you've pasted here).

You then take this URL, append your API key, and the price response should be in plain JSON from a GET request.

Sessions do run out though, so you'll need to keep making new ones every so often as you test.

Happy to follow up if you need any more info.

answered Jun 16 '16 at 07:01

David Low

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How to grab only the url from the response as the response I'm getting is plain and not json. – Udit Jun 16 '16 at 07:04
I replied to this separately but as mentioned, the response *body* will always be blank, the URL you need is in the HTTP header called "Location". – David Low Jun 17 '16 at 08:53
Thanks David ! Got it. – Udit Jun 17 '16 at 08:54
Good stuff, thanks! Would you mind marking this answer as correct, in case anyone else asks the same later on? – David Low Jun 17 '16 at 08:55

Getting plain text response when hitting skyscanner api

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