Google Flights MCP

MCP server for searching Google Flights with real-time prices — from your AI assistant, no API key and no browser.

License: MIT Python fast-flights MCP

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Overview

This MCP server searches Google Flights and returns live prices as 6 tools your assistant can call. No API key, no headless browser — it decodes Google's own query format directly. Ask in natural language:

You: Compare round-trip prices from Nice or Marseille to Tenerife, July 29 – August 12, for 2 adults and 2 kids.
Assistant: (calls compare_destinations) Cheapest: Tenerife (TFS) €612 from NCE, 1 stop, 8 h 40 — Vueling. Marseille was €40 more. Full breakdown by date below.

Requirements

Python ≥ 3.10
Any MCP client — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor…

Installation

git clone https://github.com/manganate006/google-flights-mcp
cd google-flights-mcp
python3 -m venv venv
./venv/bin/pip install "fast-flights>=3.0" "mcp[cli]>=1.0.0" "airportsdata>=20240101"

Claude Code

claude mcp add google-flights -- \
  /absolute/path/to/google-flights-mcp/venv/bin/python \
  /absolute/path/to/google-flights-mcp/server.py

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (or your client's MCP config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-flights": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/google-flights-mcp/venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/google-flights-mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

No environment variables, no API key needed.

Tools

6 tools — full parameters in docs/TOOLS.md.

Tool	Purpose
`find_airport`	Resolve a city/name to IATA code(s) — call this first (handles exonyms, fuzzy spelling), offline
`find_airports_near`	Airports near a `lat`/`lon`, sorted by distance
`search_flights`	One-way / round-trip; multiple departure and arrival airports; stop/airline/currency filters
`search_multi_city`	Multi-leg itineraries
`search_flexible_dates`	Cheapest departure day over a date range (throttled, ≤ 14 dates)
`compare_destinations`	Rank several destinations by price from one origin (≤ 8)

Examples

"Flights from Nice to Lisbon on August 1st for 2 adults and 2 children"
"Compare Nice vs Marseille to Tenerife, round-trip July 29 – August 12"
"Cheapest day to fly Nice → Barcelona between Aug 1 and Aug 15, direct only"
"Multi-city: Nice → Barcelona Aug 1, Barcelona → Lisbon Aug 8"

Sample search_flights result (trimmed):

{
  "success": true,
  "count": 7,
  "flights": [
    { "price_total": 836, "currency": "EUR", "airlines": ["Vueling"],
      "stops": 1, "total_duration_min": 215,
      "legs": [{ "from": "NCE", "to": "LIS", "departure": "2026-08-01 22:30",
                 "duration_min": 215, "plane": "Airbus A320" }] }
  ]
}

How it works

Google Flights is a JavaScript SPA, so scraping the HTML doesn't work. This server:

uses fast-flights v3 to encode queries as Protocol Buffers (the tfs= URL parameter);
fetches with primp (Rust HTTP client with TLS fingerprinting);
injects a SOCS consent cookie to bypass the EU GDPR "Before you continue" wall that otherwise blocks EU-based servers — the same acceptance your browser sends, without the click;
parses the flight data from the embedded <script class="ds:1"> payload.

Limitations

Rate limiting — Google may throttle if called too often; space out searches
Prices are real-time but may differ slightly from booking sites (caching)
Currency defaults to EUR (per-search currency parameter)
Search-only — no booking; book on the airline's site

License

MIT

google-flights-mcp