# Kayak Airport and Location Autocomplete

Look up airports, cities, metro codes, and IATA codes with the locale-aware Kayak airport and location autocomplete API for accurate flight-search inputs.

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/kayak-flights-api/kayak_airports](https://scrappa.co/docs/kayak-flights-api/kayak_airports)
- **API group:** Kayak Flights API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/kayak/flights/airports`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | Yes | Airport, city, or IATA search text. |
| `locale` | string | No | Language locale such as en-US. |

## Example request

```bash
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/kayak/flights/airports?query=San+Francisco&locale=en-US"
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error |  |
| 502 | Upstream Unavailable |  |
| 503 | Proxy Capacity Unavailable |  |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)