serpapi

serpapi is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for Google Flights, Google Hotels, and Google Travel Explore through SerpAPI, a service that provides search results through an API. It returns cash prices, hotel prices, schedules, and destination ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search flights and hotels, compare cabin classes, explore destinations, and check cash prices for travel booked through a bank portal.
Why use it?
It provides current travel prices and availability in a form that other trip-planning workflows can compare. It is useful when you need cash prices alongside points options.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the travel-hacker plugin — 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/serpapi
Any agent
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill serpapi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install travel-hacker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00037 $0.02321
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01161
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00232

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6f8e8f560454, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serpapi scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google_flights&departure_id=SFO&arrival_id=NRT&outbound_date=2026-08-10&type=2&adults=2&travel_class=1&currency=USD&stops=2&sort_by=2&api_key=$SERPAPI_API_KEY" | jq '{best: [.be
plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/serpapi/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SerpAPI Skill

Scrape Google Flights, Google Hotels, and Google Travel Explore via SerpAPI. Provides cash flight prices (for Chase/Amex portal comparison), hotel pricing, and destination discovery.

Source: serpapi.com — Free tier available, paid plans for higher volume.

Authentication

SERPAPI_API_KEY is set in .env. All requests use api_key query parameter.

API Base

https://serpapi.com/search

Google Flights (Cash Prices)

Search for flight prices and schedules. Essential for comparing: "Is 88,000 United miles better than paying $900 cash through the Chase portal?" (Chase portal pricing is now dynamic via Points Boost, ~1.5-2.0 cpp on select bookings; verify the actual quote.)

One-Way Search

curl -s "https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google_flights&departure_id=SFO&arrival_id=NRT&outbound_date=2026-08-10&type=2&adults=2&travel_class=1&currency=USD&stops=2&sort_by=2&api_key=$SERPAPI_API_KEY" | jq '{best: [.best_flights[]? | {price: .price, duration: .total_duration, stops: (.layovers | length), flights: [.flights[] | {from: .departure_airport.id, to: .arrival_airport.id, airline: .airline, flight: .flight_number, depart: .departure_airport.time, arrive: .arrival_airport.time}]}], price_insights: .price_insights}'

Parameters

Param Required Description
engine Yes google_flights
departure_id Yes Airport code(s), comma-separated: SFO,PDX
arrival_id Yes Airport code(s), comma-separated: NRT,HND
outbound_date Yes YYYY-MM-DD
return_date Round trip YYYY-MM-DD (required if type=1)
type No 1 = round trip (default), 2 = one way, 3 = multi-city
adults No Default 1
children No Default 0
travel_class No 1 = economy, 2 = premium economy, 3 = business, 4 = first
stops No 0 = any, 1 = nonstop, 2 = 1 stop or fewer, 3 = 2 stops or fewer
sort_by No 1 = top flights, 2 = price, 3 = departure, 4 = arrival, 5 = duration
include_airlines No IATA codes: SK,KL,UA or alliances: STAR_ALLIANCE,SKYTEAM,ONEWORLD
max_price No Maximum ticket price in USD
max_duration No Maximum flight duration in minutes
bags No Number of carry-on bags
deep_search No true for browser-identical results (slower)
currency No Default USD

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 160 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6f8e8f560454

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serpapi is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (650 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,321 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.