Getting live flight prices out of Google Flights by hand is a grind. There is no public API to call, the search URL hides the whole query behind an opaque tfs blob, and the page renders its results with JavaScript that fights simple scripts. I'll show the manual way and where it breaks, then a faster path, and a repo you can clone. The faster path uses the Google Flights API on Apify, which turns a route and a date into structured JSON.
Does Google Flights have an API?
No. Google retired QPX Express in 2018 and has never shipped a public Google Flights API. There is no key to request and no endpoint to call, which is why a search for "google flights api" mostly turns up scraping libraries and hosted scrapers. So in practice a Google Flights API means a scraper you consume like an API: send a route and a date, get flights and prices back as JSON.
What the Google Flights API returns
The Google Flights API returns every itinerary for a route as structured JSON: price, airlines, stops, duration, departure and arrival times, plus a price insight for the route and optional direct booking links.
