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Book a free option (pre-reservation, no payment)

Places a free "Option" pre-reservation on SNCF Connect: holds a train's price and seat without any payment. Different from book_tickets, which adds a real fare to the cart — an Option is not a ticket, expires about 24h after it is placed (pay before then or the hold is lost), and needs the cart to be empty first, because the site's option toggle applies to the whole cart. Only single-train journeys are eligible: SNCF does not offer the free option on an itinerary with a connection, so those are passed over and the cheapest eligible fare of the requested comfort class is used. Requires being signed in to SNCF Connect. Runs only via the local browser extension, not the hosted cloud browser.

Input

date required

Travel date YYYY-MM-DD

origin required

Departure city or station

destination required

Arrival city or station

comfortClass optional

Comfort class filter (default 2de)

Default: "2de"
departureTime optional

Optional HH:MM to pick a specific train; omit to take the cheapest eligible fare across all trains

Output

fare required
note required
journey required
optioned required
deadline optional

As displayed

reference optional

Booking reference shown on the confirmation page

rejectedFares optional

Fares that were added to the cart, refused the free option, and were removed again before the one that worked

skippedForConnection optional

Journeys with a connection that were passed over: a free option only covers a single-train order

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