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# ✈️ flytoday-mcp

**Let your AI agent plan trips with Flytoday.**<br>
Find the cheapest domestic or international flight, train or bus on a date or over a month, read fare rules and baggage,<br>
compare hotels and villas with exact prices, and price CIP lounges, eSIMs and visas, all from Claude, Cursor or Copilot.

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[Quick start](#quick-start) · [What it can do](#what-it-can-do) · [Tools](#tools) · [FAQ](#faq) · [فارسی](#فارسی)

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## Why

Flytoday (flytoday.ir, فلای تودی) sells domestic and international flights, hotels, villas, trains, buses, CIP
lounges, eSIMs and visas. Comparing "which day, plane or train or bus, which hotel" still means many page loads.
An agent with `flytoday-mcp` does it in one go:

> **You:** Cheapest way from Tehran to Mashhad around 20 October?
>
> **Agent:** *calls* `ft_flight_calendar(origin="THR", destination="MHD", date="2026-10-21", window="week")`,
> `ft_train_calendar(origin="1", destination="191")`
>
> | Mode | Cheapest day | Price (Toman) |
> |---|---|---|
> | Flight | 2026-10-20, airline IRZ | 11,056,700 |
> | Train | 2026-10-20 (and most days that week) | **760,000** |
>
> The train is far cheaper; want me to list that day's trains with `ft_search_trains`?

<sub>Real tool output from 2026-10-07; prices and seats change all the time. Prices are in Toman.</sub>

## What it can do

- ✈️ **Flights**: domestic and international, one-way or round trip, party prices, airline, direct, charter/system and time filters
- 📅 **Cheapest day** for flights (+-15 days), trains (~16 days) and buses (~6 weeks)
- 📜 **Fare details**: refund and change rules, baggage, international entry notes
- 🏨 **Hotels** in Iran and abroad: priced search, room and meal offers with cancellation terms, guest reviews
- 🏡 **Villas and apartments** in Iran: price per night and total, per-date calendar with blocked days
- 🚆🚌 **Trains and buses**: classes, seats left, stops, amenities, VIP and sleeper buses
- 🛂 **Extras**: CIP lounges at IKA and MHD, eSIM data plans per country, visa prices and documents, tours and tickets
- 🔒 **Read-only by design**: no login, no seat hold, no booking, no payment

## Quick start

You need [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/).

<details open>
<summary><b>Claude Code</b></summary>

```bash
claude mcp add flytoday -- uvx flytoday-mcp
```

If Flytoday does not answer from your network, add a proxy:

```bash
claude mcp add flytoday -e FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080 -- uvx flytoday-mcp
```
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Claude Desktop</b></summary>

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, then add:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flytoday": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["flytoday-mcp"] }
  }
}
```

Need a proxy? Add `"env": { "FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY": "http://127.0.0.1:8080" }` next to `args`.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Cursor</b></summary>

Click **Install in Cursor** above, or add the Claude Desktop block to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>VS Code (Copilot agent mode)</b></summary>

Click **Install in VS Code** above, or add to `.vscode/mcp.json`:

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "flytoday": { "type": "stdio", "command": "uvx", "args": ["flytoday-mcp"] }
  }
}
```
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Anything else</b></summary>

It's a standard stdio MCP server: run `uvx flytoday-mcp`, or `pip install flytoday-mcp` and run `flytoday-mcp`.
</details>

Then just ask:

- "Cheapest day to fly Tehran to Istanbul next month, and the refund rules of that fare?"
- "Hotels in Mashhad for 2 nights from the 21st, cheapest first, with free cancellation."
- "A villa in Ramsar for 4 people next weekend under 5 million Toman a night."
- <span dir="rtl">ارزان&zwnj;ترین اتوبوس VIP تهران به اصفهان دوشنبه بعد؟</span>

## How it works

```text
  AI agent  (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, ...)
      │
      │  MCP over stdio
      ▼
  flytoday-mcp  (runs on your machine)
      │
      │  HTTPS (optional proxy)
      ▼
  www.flytoday.ir/api/gateway  ──▶  api.flytoday.ir, placesearch.flytoday.ir
```

`flytoday-mcp` runs locally and calls the same public gateway the flytoday.ir website uses. There's no hosted
server in between, no API key, and nothing about you is sent anywhere else.

## Tools

Each vertical has its own ids, taken from its find tool: IATA codes for flights (`THR`, `MHD`, `IST`), hotel
`city_id` / `region_code`, stay `region_code`, train station codes (Tehran `1`, Mashhad `191`), 4-digit bus city
ids (Tehran `0001`, Isfahan `0002`).

<details open>
<summary><b>✈️ Flights</b> (4)</summary>

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ft_find_airport` | Finds IATA codes for Iranian and international cities and airports, or lists the popular ones |
| `ft_search_flights` | Searches one-way or round-trip flights with filters, sorting and paging, in Toman, with fare_source_code and search_id |
| `ft_flight_calendar` | Shows the cheapest fare per departure day around a date and marks the cheapest day |
| `ft_flight_details` | Gives the refund and change rules, baggage and international entry notes of one fare |
</details>

<details open>
<summary><b>🏨 Hotels and stays</b> (6)</summary>

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ft_find_hotel_place` | Find city, region and hotel ids for hotels, and region codes for villa stays; popular places when empty |
| `ft_search_hotels` | Priced hotels of a city or region for dates: whole-stay and per-night Toman, stars, score, refundable, meal |
| `ft_hotel` | One hotel: room and meal offers with price, rooms left and cancellation terms, room details, basics |
| `ft_hotel_reviews` | Guest reviews of a hotel with score, text, pros and cons |
| `ft_search_stays` | Villas and apartments in Iran for dates, cheapest first, Toman per night and total |
| `ft_stay` | One villa or apartment: details, price calendar with blocked days, reviews |
</details>

<details open>
<summary><b>🚆 Trains</b> (4)</summary>

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ft_find_station` | Train station codes by city name, or the popular stations |
| `ft_search_trains` | Trains between two stations on a date: company, class, times, seats left, price per adult |
| `ft_train_calendar` | Cheapest train price per day for the next ~16 days, sold-out days flagged |
| `ft_train_stops` | Stops and times of one train, plus class amenities and meals |
</details>

<details open>
<summary><b>🚌 Buses</b> (3)</summary>

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ft_find_bus_city` | Bus city ids by name, or the popular cities |
| `ft_bus_calendar` | Cheapest bus seat price per day for the next weeks (the site's price strip) |
| `ft_search_buses` | Buses between two cities on a date: company, terminals, type, seats left, price per seat |
</details>

<details open>
<summary><b>🛂 CIP, eSIM, visa, activities</b> (5)</summary>

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ft_cip` | CIP / VIP airport lounge prices and add-ons at IKA and MHD for a date and passengers, per passport nationality |
| `ft_esim_plans` | eSIM data plans for a country (GB, days, price in Toman), cheapest first |
| `ft_visa` | Visa country list with from-prices, or one country's prices, documents and processing time |
| `ft_activities` | Tours, tickets and activities in a destination with from-prices for a date range |
| `ft_activity` | One activity: description, options, prices and cheapest days |
</details>

All 22 tools are annotated `readOnlyHint: true` and return compact structured JSON, so they don't flood the agent's context.

## Good to know

- **Prices are in Toman** in every tool, in fields named `*_toman` (the API sends Rial; values are divided by 10).
  Flight `price_toman` is per adult and `total_toman` the whole party; hotel `price_toman` is the whole stay (with
  `per_night_toman`); stays give `price_per_night_toman` and `total_toman`; trains per adult; buses per seat.
  Visa and some activity prices are in a foreign currency (`price_currency`).
- **Dates** in and out are Gregorian `YYYY-MM-DD`; past dates are rejected. Times are local to the place.
- **Searches are rate limited per IP** by Flytoday: about 15 flight/train/bus searches, and hotel search asks for a
  captcha after about 12 searches in 10 minutes (blocked for an hour or more). Use the calendars and paging
  (`search_id`) instead of searching again; the tools never loop searches.
- **Ids expire**: `search_id` and `fare_source_code` are valid for about 15 minutes.
- **Sales windows**: trains open about 16 days ahead. An empty result often just means "not on sale yet".
- When the rail companies' link is down, Flytoday answers HTTP 599; `ft_search_trains` retries three times, then says so.

## FAQ

<details>
<summary><b>Do I need a proxy?</b></summary>

Usually not: the website's gateway answers from Iran and from abroad. If your network cannot reach
www.flytoday.ir, or your IP is rate limited, set `FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY` to an HTTP proxy. System proxy variables
(`HTTPS_PROXY`, ...) are ignored on purpose.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Can it book a ticket for me?</b></summary>

No, and that's deliberate. It has no login and never holds a seat, reserves, orders or pays. The agent finds the
best option; you book on flytoday.ir.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>I get "wants a captcha" or HTTP 429</b></summary>

Flytoday limits searches per IP. Wait (the hotel captcha block can last an hour or more) or use another network
through `FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY`. Calendars, details, reviews and stay searches are not limited.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Why is there no bus seat map?</b></summary>

The site's seat map comes from the first call of its checkout flow. It is left out until it is clear that the call
holds nothing.
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>How do I debug what the agent sees?</b></summary>

```bash
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx flytoday-mcp
```
</details>

## Configuration

| Variable | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY` | unset | HTTP proxy for every request, e.g. `http://user:pass@host:port` |

## Safety

- Read-only: no login or OTP, no seat hold, reservation, order, payment, refund, review or bookmark.
  The only POSTs are searches and price lookups the site itself makes before booking.
- At most two requests at a time, and no tool repeats a search in a loop.

## فارسی

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**flytoday-mcp** به دستیار هوش مصنوعی شما (Claude، Cursor، Copilot و ...) اجازه می&zwnj;دهد در فلای&zwnj;تودی ارزان&zwnj;ترین
پرواز داخلی و خارجی، قطار یا اتوبوس را برای یک روز یا یک ماه پیدا کند، قوانین استرداد و بار مجاز را ببیند
و هتل&zwnj;ها و ویلاها را با قیمت دقیق مقایسه کند؛ همچنین قیمت CIP، سیم&zwnj;کارت eSIM و ویزا را می&zwnj;گوید.

- فقط خواندنی است: وارد حساب نمی&zwnj;شود و چیزی رزرو یا پرداخت نمی&zwnj;کند.
- همه قیمت&zwnj;ها به تومان است.
- روی سیستم خود شما اجرا می&zwnj;شود و به هیچ سرور واسطی داده نمی&zwnj;فرستد.

**نصب در Claude Code:**

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```bash
claude mcp add flytoday -- uvx flytoday-mcp
```

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بعد بپرسید: «ارزان&zwnj;ترین راه رفتن از تهران به مشهد حدود ۲۸ مهر چیست؟»

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## Development

```bash
git clone https://github.com/sepehr071/flytoday-mcp && cd flytoday-mcp
uv sync
uv run pytest            # offline, against recorded responses
uv run pytest -m live    # real API, one search per tool (set FLYTODAY_MCP_PROXY if needed)
uv run ruff check .
```

Tools live in `src/flytoday_mcp/flights.py`, `hotels.py`, `trains.py`, `buses.py` and `extras.py`; each is a typed
async function with a docstring that tells the agent when to use it. Issues and PRs are welcome.

Releases: bump the version in `pyproject.toml` and `server.json`, then push a `v*` tag. GitHub Actions tests,
publishes to PyPI and the [MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), and creates the GitHub Release.

## Disclaimer

Unofficial and not affiliated with or endorsed by Flytoday. It uses the public endpoints of the flytoday.ir website,
which can change without notice. Please keep request rates reasonable.

## License

[MIT](https://github.com/sepehr071/flytoday-mcp/blob/main/LICENSE)