[Google Flights API] Convert Location Names to Airport Codes

[schaferyan]

A customer requested support for converting location names to airport codes.

We might be able to scrape this using Google Flights Autocomplete:

Potentially we could also compile a list or serve these as a separate API, similar to our Locations API or Walmart Stores Locations.

Potentially we could also get kgmids from the Wikidata Rest API. I've suggested that as a workaround for the customer.

Intercom | Wikidata Rest API

[martin-serpapi]

Another user requested this:

Front | Intercom

[hilmanski]

One way to convert a city name to IATA code is using our Google answer box API. We can use this as a temporary suggestion to a customer.

Here is an example: Playground: search for airport code for Beirut