Travel Hotel API s

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I am working on a large project involving creating a worldwide hotel database with rich data such as Addresses  Images  Descriptions  Policies  Coordinates  Facilities  Reviews  Local area descriptions and their amenities etc   I am looking for a public hotel API where I can both retrieve the data and run  preferably RESTful  real-time queries for specific locations and available rooms  and where I can subsequently let my customers make bookings   Can anyone share experience  knowledge and possible guidelines for such a project  which APIs are suitable and what are the best practices

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Try Tixik com and their API there  They have a very different data that big players  really good coverage mostly in Europe and good API conditions

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After several days of searching found the EAN API - http   developer ean com  - it is a very big one  but it provides really good information  Free demos  XML JSON format  Looks good

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You could probably trying using Yahoo or Google s APIs   They are generic  but by specifying the right set of parameters  you could probably narrow down the results to just hotels   Check out Yahoo s Local Search API and Google s Local Search API

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In my search for hotel APIs I have found only one API giving unrestricted open access to their hotel database and allowing you to book their hotels   Expedia s EAN http   developer ean com   You need to sign for their affiliate program  which is very easy  You get immediate access to their hotel databases plus you can make availability booking requests with several response options  including JSON  which is more convenient and lightweight than the  unfortunately  more widespread XML    As you immediately access their API  you can start developing and testing  but still need their approval to launch the site  basically to make sure it provides the needed quality and security  which is reasonable   They also offer  deep linking   i e  you may customize your requests by adding parameters  Then if it sufficient for your purpose  for mine it is not   you don t even need to store their content on your server     I have also signed for HotelsCombined program   link removed as this site doesn t seem to let me put more links   However  they do not immediately allow you to use their API even for testing  From their answer    Apologies for the inconvenience caused  but it   s simply a business decision to limit access to our rich hotel content  Please kindly check back within the next 2-3 months  where we will be able to judge your traffic  and in turn judge your status on standard data feeds      I have also signed for Booking com affiliate program   link removed as this site doesn t seem to let me put more links   Unfortunately  again  they limit access  from their answer   Please do note that  since there s a high amount of time and cost involved in the XML integration  we are only able to offer the XML integration to a small amount of partners with a high potential      I did not explore Tripadvisor as they seem only to offer top 10 hotels and only as widgets  but most importantly for me  they wouldn t allow booking through them   I ve checked the hotelbase org mentioned above  they have very extensive list but not as rich as by Expedia  also they don t seem to have images and don t allow booking either

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I ve used the TripAdvisor API before and its suited me well   It returns  per destination  a list of top-rated hotels  along with options to retrieve reviews  photos   nearby restaurants and a couple other useful things    http   www tripadvisor com help what type of tripadvisor content is available  From the API page  available API content         Hotel  attraction and restaurant ratings and reviews   Top 10 lists of hotels  attractions and restaurants in a destination   Traveler photos of a destination   Travelers  Choice award badges for hotels and destinations   To expand upon  nstehr s answer  you could also use Yahoo Pipes to facilitate a more granular local search   Go to pipes yahoo com and do a search for existing hotel pipes and you ll get the idea

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Check out api hotelsbase org - its a free xml hotel api No images as of yet though

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HotelsCombined has an easy-to-access and useful service to download the data feed files with hotels  Not exactly API  but something you can get  parse and use  Here is how you do it    Go to http   www hotelscombined com Affiliates aspx Register there  no company or bank data is needed  Open    Data feeds    page Choose    Standard data feed    -     Single file    -     CSV format     you may get XML as well    If you are interested in details  you may find the sample Python code to filter CSV file to get hotels for a specific city here   http   mikhail io 2012 05 17 api-to-get-the-list-of-hotels   Update   Unfortunately  HotelsCombined com has introduced the new regulations  they ve restricted the access to data feeds by default  To get the access  a partner must submit some information on why one needs the data  The HC team will review it and then  maybe  will grant access

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