SoloWay — Bus Tickets for Ukraine & Europe

Connectivity/health check. Returns "pong" and the server version. No inputs.

Search live intercity bus trips between two cities on a specific date. Returns real-time prices, available seats, carriers, whether each trip can be booked (pay-on-bus) or bought online, transfer info, and a booking link. City names resolve automatically; if a name is ambiguous you get candidate cities to pick from — pass the chosen city_id via from_city_id/to_city_id. Each trip also lists the carrier's available passenger discounts (children by age, seniors, students, etc.) in carrier_discounts plus a quick discount_percent_range — surface these when listing options. Bookings complete on soloway.com.ua, not here. Searches work for any party size, but the booking link supports at most 6 passengers (the site cap) — for 7+ the link is clamped to 6 and a note is added. When NOTHING runs on the exact pair, the tool automatically verifies routes via bigger cities within ~60 km of the requested endpoints and returns confirmed ones in nearby_alternatives (each with substitution distances, trip count, cheapest price and its own booking link) — offer these instead of a bare "no trips" answer. If nothing runs nearby either, check other dates with get_calendar_prices and offer the nearest date that has trips.

Returns the cheapest bus price per day for a route across a whole month (UAH), so you can find the best day to travel. City names resolve automatically; ambiguous names return candidates to pick from. For the current month, past days are omitted (coverage="today_onward") — that is not "no buses". If pending=true some carriers are still loading; call again shortly. Use search_trips for the actual trips on a chosen day.

Returns stops (with times), the carrier's per-passenger discounts (children by age band, students, seniors, people with disabilities, companions/pets, etc. — each with its percentage and the discounted ticket price), seat layout (if any), and legal notice for ONE trip from a search_trips result. Use this to tell a user about child/student/senior fares for a specific trip. Pass the trip's external_id plus the same route context (from/to + date + passengers) used in the search. If the trip id has expired, re-run search_trips to get a fresh one. Booking completes on soloway.com.ua.