Flyan SDK

An open-source unofficial API wrapper to get flight data from Ryanair.

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Contents

• Installation
• Quick Start
• API Reference
• Data Models
• Examples
• Explore Mode
• Use with Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients
• Supported Airports
• Supported Currencies
• Rate Limiting
• Contributing
• Disclaimer

Installation

pip install Flyan

Or using uv:

uv add Flyan

Quick Start

from datetime import datetime
from flyan import RyanAir, FlightSearchParams

# Initialize the client
client = RyanAir(currency="EUR")

# Set up search parameters
search_params = FlightSearchParams(
    from_airport="DUB",  # Dublin
    to_airport="BCN",    # Barcelona
    from_date=datetime(2025, 8, 15),
    to_date=datetime(2025, 8, 20),
    max_price=200
)

# Search for one-way flights
flights = client.get_oneways(search_params)

# Display results
for flight in flights:
    print(f"Flight {flight.flight_number}: {flight.departure_airport.name} → {flight.arrival_airport.name}")
    print(f"Departure: {flight.departure_date}")
    print(f"Price: {flight.price} {flight.currency}")
    print("---")

API Reference

RyanAir Class

Constructor

RyanAir(currency: str = "EUR")

Creates a new RyanAir client instance.

Parameters:

• currency (str, optional): Preferred currency for pricing. Defaults to "EUR". Must be a valid currency code from the supported currencies list.

Example:

# Default EUR currency
client = RyanAir()

# Specific currency
client = RyanAir(currency="USD")

Methods

get_oneways(params: FlightSearchParams) -> list[Flight]

Search for one-way flights.

Parameters:

• params (FlightSearchParams): Search parameters

Returns:

• list[Flight]: List of available flights

FlightSearchParams Class

Parameters for searching flights.

FlightSearchParams(
    from_airport: str,
    from_date: datetime,
    to_date: datetime,
    destination_country: Optional[str] = None,
    max_price: Optional[int] = None,
    to_airport: Optional[str] = None,
    departure_time_from: Optional[str] = "00:00",
    departure_time_to: Optional[str] = "23:59"
)

Parameters:

• from_airport (str): IATA code of departure airport (e.g., "DUB")
• from_date (datetime): Earliest departure date
• to_date (datetime): Latest departure date
• destination_country (str, optional): Country code for destination
• max_price (int, optional): Maximum price filter
• to_airport (str, optional): IATA code of arrival airport
• departure_time_from (str, optional): Earliest departure time (HH:MM format)
• departure_time_to (str, optional): Latest departure time (HH:MM format)

Example:

from datetime import datetime

params = FlightSearchParams(
    from_airport="DUB",
    from_date=datetime(2025, 8, 15),
    to_date=datetime(2025, 8, 20),
    to_airport="BCN",
    max_price=150,
    departure_time_from="08:00",
    departure_time_to="18:00"
)

ReturnFlightSearchParams Class

Extended parameters for return flight searches.

ReturnFlightSearchParams(
    # All FlightSearchParams fields plus:
    return_date_from: datetime,
    return_date_to: datetime,
    inbound_departure_time_from: Optional[str] = "00:00",
    inbound_departure_time_to: Optional[str] = "23:59"
)

Data Models

Flight

Represents a single flight.

Attributes:

• departure_airport (Airport): Departure airport information
• arrival_airport (Airport): Arrival airport information
• departure_date (datetime): Departure date and time
• arrival_date (datetime): Arrival date and time
• price (float): Flight price
• currency (str): Price currency
• flight_key (str): Unique flight identifier
• flight_number (str): Flight number
• previous_price (Optional[str | float]): Previous price if available

Airport

Represents airport information.

Attributes:

• country_name (str): Country name
• iata_code (str): IATA airport code
• name (str): Airport name
• seo_name (str): SEO-friendly name
• city_name (str): City name
• city_code (str): City code
• city_country_code (str): Country code

ReturnFlight

Represents a return flight booking.

Attributes:

• outbound (Flight): Outbound flight
• inbound (Flight): Return flight
• summary_price (float): Total price for both flights
• summary_currency (str): Currency for total price
• previous_price (str | float): Previous total price if available

NetworkAirport

Represents an airport in Ryanair's live network. Returned by the explore methods.

Attributes:

• iata_code (str): IATA airport code
• name (str): Airport name
• seo_name (str): SEO-friendly name
• country_code (str): Lowercase ISO2 country code (e.g. "ie", "es")
• city_code (str): City code (e.g. "LONDON", "DUBLIN")
• region_code (Optional[str]): Region code (e.g. "SCOTLAND", "ANDALUSIA")
• currency_code (str): Local currency code
• time_zone (str): IANA timezone (e.g. "Europe/Dublin")
• base (bool): True if this is a Ryanair base
• latitude (float), longitude (float): Coordinates
• routes (list[str]): Raw route strings (year-round)
• seasonal_routes (list[str]): Raw route strings (seasonal-only)
• categories (list[str]): Marketing categories assigned by Ryanair
• aliases (list[str]): Alternative names

Helpers: airport_routes(), country_routes(), seasonal_airport_routes(), typed_routes(), typed_seasonal_routes().

DestinationFare

Returned by explore_with_fares(). Pairs a reachable destination with its cheapest sampled fare, if one was returned by the price probe.

Attributes:

• airport (NetworkAirport): The destination airport
• fare (Optional[Flight]): The cheapest sampled fare in the window, or None if the route is in the network but no priced inventory came back (no flights in the window, sold out, etc.)

Examples

Search by Country

# Search flights to any airport in Spain
params = FlightSearchParams(
    from_airport="DUB",
    destination_country="ES",
    from_date=datetime(2025, 9, 1),
    to_date=datetime(2025, 9, 7)
)

flights = client.get_oneways(params)

Filter by Time and Price

# Morning flights under €100
params = FlightSearchParams(
    from_airport="STN",  # London Stansted
    to_airport="DUB",    # Dublin
    from_date=datetime(2025, 8, 1),
    to_date=datetime(2025, 8, 5),
    max_price=100,
    departure_time_from="06:00",
    departure_time_to="12:00"
)

flights = client.get_oneways(params)

Error Handling

from flyan import RyanairException

try:
    flights = client.get_oneways(params)
    if not flights:
        print("No flights found for the given criteria")
except RyanairException as e:
    print(f"Ryanair API error: {e}")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Unexpected error: {e}")

Explore Mode

Explore Mode answers the question "where can I actually fly from here?". It reads Ryanair's live network metadata once and exposes the reachable destinations from any airport, optionally grouped, filtered, or joined with the cheapest fare in a date window.

All methods below are available on both RyanAir and AsyncRyanAir.

List every destination

destinations = client.get_destinations("DUB")

for airport in destinations:
    print(f"{airport.iata_code} {airport.name} ({airport.country_code})")

Filter by country, region or city

# All Scottish airports DUB flies to
in_scotland = client.get_destinations_in_region("DUB", "SCOTLAND")

# All London airports DUB flies to (LGW, LTN, STN)
in_london = client.get_destinations_in_city("DUB", "LONDON")

# All Spanish airports DUB flies to
in_spain = client.get_destinations_in_country("DUB", "es")

Country codes are lowercase ISO2. Region and city codes come from the live network (uppercase, e.g. SCOTLAND, ANDALUSIA, COSTA_DE_SOL, LONDON, MILAN).

Group destinations

# {country_code: [airports]}
by_country = client.explore_by_country("DUB")

print(f"DUB flies to {len(by_country)} countries")
for country, airports in sorted(by_country.items()):
    codes = ", ".join(a.iata_code for a in airports)
    print(f"  {country}: {codes}")

# {region_code: [airports]}
by_region = client.explore_by_region("DUB")

Airports without a region_code are collected under the empty-string key, so callers can decide whether to surface or drop them.

Seasonal-only destinations

seasonal = client.get_seasonal_destinations("DUB")

Ryanair's seasonalRoutes list is sparsely populated upstream, so this often returns [] outside of summer/winter schedule transitions. The method is provided so callers do not need to peek at the raw route strings.

Destinations with their cheapest fare

explore_with_fares() joins the network destinations with a oneWayFares probe, so each destination comes back with its cheapest sampled Flight (or None if no fare was returned for that route in the window). It costs one network call plus one fare call.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

start = datetime.now() + timedelta(days=14)
end = start + timedelta(days=7)

results = client.explore_with_fares("DUB", start, end, max_price=100)

priced = [d for d in results if d.fare is not None]
cheapest_first = sorted(priced, key=lambda d: d.fare.price)

for d in cheapest_first[:10]:
    print(f"{d.airport.iata_code} {d.airport.name}: "
          f"{d.fare.price} {d.fare.currency}")

Async usage

AsyncRyanAir mirrors every explore method:

import asyncio
from flyan import AsyncRyanAir

async def main():
    async with AsyncRyanAir() as client:
        by_country = await client.explore_by_country("DUB")
        print(f"{len(by_country)} countries reachable from DUB")

asyncio.run(main())

If you call multiple explore methods in a row, wrap the transport in CachingTransport so the network metadata is fetched once and reused.

Use with Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients

[!IMPORTANT] Two commands and you're done:

uv tool install "Flyan[mcp]"
claude mcp add flyan flyan-mcp

Now your agent can search Ryanair flights in natural language. No API keys, no accounts.

Flyan ships an optional Model Context Protocol server so your agent can search Ryanair fares from natural-language prompts like "find me a cheap flight from Dublin to Spain in August under €150" or "what's the cheapest day in July to fly DUB to BCN".

Quickstart

1. Install Flyan with the MCP extra:

uv tool install "Flyan[mcp]"

Or with pip:

pipx install "Flyan[mcp]"

This installs a flyan-mcp console script on your PATH.

2. Add it to your agent:

Claude Code (one-liner):

claude mcp add flyan flyan-mcp

Claude Desktop: open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS (or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows) and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flyan": {
      "command": "flyan-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Then restart Claude Desktop.

Cursor: Settings → MCP → Add new server, name flyan, command flyan-mcp.

Currency

The server returns prices in EUR by default. To get them in another currency, set the FLYAN_CURRENCY env var to any supported ISO 4217 code before launching flyan-mcp:

FLYAN_CURRENCY=GBP flyan-mcp

Or pass it through your agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flyan": {
      "command": "flyan-mcp",
      "env": { "FLYAN_CURRENCY": "GBP" }
    }
  }
}

Unknown or unsupported codes silently fall back to EUR.

3. Try it. Ask your agent:

"Find me a one-way from Dublin to anywhere in Spain in the first week of August under €150."

The agent should call find_flights with destination_country="es", then summarize the cheapest options.

Exposed tools

The server exposes four curated tools so the agent can pick reliably:

• find_flights for one-way searches with optional country, IATA, or price filters
• find_anywhere_under for "where can I go for under £X" prompts
• explore_destinations for "what countries can I reach from X"
• cheapest_per_day for "what's the cheapest day this month to fly X to Y"

No API keys, accounts, or rate-limit setup. Ryanair's API is anonymous and the server reuses a single RyanAir client across calls.

Supported Airports

The SDK supports all airports in Ryanair's network. Airport codes must be valid 3-letter IATA codes. The live list is fetched from Ryanair's aggregate endpoint via client.get_network(); iterate network.airports for the full set.

Popular airports include:

• DUB - Dublin
• STN - London Stansted
• BCN - Barcelona
• MAD - Madrid
• FCO - Rome Fiumicino
• BRU - Brussels
• AMS - Amsterdam

Supported Currencies

The SDK supports multiple currencies. Some popular ones include:

• EUR - Euro
• USD - US Dollar
• GBP - British Pound
• CHF - Swiss Franc

See currencies.json for the complete list.

Rate Limiting

The SDK includes automatic retry logic with exponential backoff to handle rate limiting and temporary API issues. It will retry failed requests up to 5 times before giving up.

Contributing

This is an open-source project. Contributions are welcome!

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial API wrapper and is not affiliated with Ryanair. Use at your own risk and ensure you comply with Ryanair's terms of service.