We do marketing solutions for our hotel clients. For that matter, we need to know their room availability. it would be easier to collect such information from booking.com cause all our clients use booking OTA, other than connecting API directly to each of them.
My question is: Can we get other hotels' availability from booking.com Connect API?
OR is there any other GDS solution we can get booking.com existing data, like Sabre?
In order to achieve what you want, Aggregators must be enabled in your PCC; in the documentation, there is a special field to enter the Aggregator number so that using this, you can retrieve the information from various hospitality sources.
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I need to fetch orders from multiple clients shopify stores into our external web-app. I am struggeling to understand how to achieve this.
So far I created a custom public app which is able to get data from single store when it is installed.
But this does not solve a problem for my external API to get order for all the stores that want to collaborate with us.
Note, I don't want to use webhooks, instead I want to poll this data, because:
Documentation states that webhooks are not guaranteed to success and suggest that I should poll anyway
I don't need real-time orders, once a day is enough.
I need to combine multiple orders into one in my own external API anyway.
I have been digging in documentations for days, but I am still struggeling to find the right way. Any help would be very appreciated!
I am trying to find an API similar to https://plaid.com/ that allows users to connect to multiple brokerages and return security holding information. The issue with Plaid seems to be that they only provide updates once a day and I am looking for something more "real time."
Has anyone come across another service like this that provides up-to-date information on your portfolio?
I know, we have dedicated API documentation for Shipping and different services.
But there is no endpoint to get all UPS Shipments at once using API.
Can anyone provide me the endpoint with example?
Thank you in advance.
I had the same question and after a long email thread with UPS Support they confirmed there is no way to grab historical shipment information.
The only option they gave is maybe using QVM which also has it's limitations.
That would be correct, Quantum View Manage and Quantum View Data would be your best available option to view the outbound information. You can have it build a report with address, name and tracking number. Contact your local UPS Account Representative for in depth details if you would like to explore that option. There is a Quantum View API however it would first need to be setup via your local Rep with the website. You are still manually searching the docs however for the information at hand when reviewing the reports. It will not pull it up or give a simple error if what you are looking for is not found. They just pull information all or nothing.
I have been looking online and saw many similar/same posts but all were extremely old (latest I found was from 2011) so since technology changes, I thought I ask too.
I wonder how a flight comparison website (where you cannot book flights and can only be redirected to other websites) get their data.
Is it all by now through api's or is it throgh scrapping data (which would be not so reliable)? Ive been reading online, trying to find out if thats the case but it doesnt really seem that EVERY airline and EVERY flight search website (with booking option) provides an api. So I wonder how sites like Kayak get their data if not every airline/every flight booking website provides an api?
Also, I came across some api's like
QPX Express API
skyscanner travel api (which I checked out on some website which is using it and it does seem that data is quite limited ?!)
Travelport api
Amadeus API
Sabre travel api
Wego Affiliate Network (which seems really great but search takes super long)
I wonder if anyone has experience with the mentioned api's and how good their are /if using them is 'the way' of doing it or if its actually much more realiable to request data directly from each airline and booking website (if thats possible)?
Thanks a lot!
If we take Kayak as the example, as that is who you mentioned, they approach the data in two forms.
They have API PULL connections to GDS companies (i.e. Sabre), some airlines and large online travel companies such as Expedia etc.
Smaller airlines in particular PUSH their inventory and fares from their inventory to companies such as Kayak.
Aggregation companies generally provide PUSH access though companies who want to PUSH their data have to comply with the aggregators requirements/standards.
It is a supply and demand service. Aggregation companies will generally request access to large established companies, however, will also allow companies to push their data to them if they wish.
The data is not normally scrapped, it is through API and web service platforms.
I have one question about gds and ids for hotel my own reservation system.
Developed my own reservation system for my hotel and i need solution to connect my API with GDS and IDS.
I need to manage my distibution channel with other channels easily and automatically based my own hotel inventory with other channels
like booking , expedia , venere and GDS like Amadeus Gallilelo Sabre and Worldspan.
Do you have any idea how can do this connection ? (I need a service to do this and i dont know how can find it)
If you are looking for an open standard to expose your hotel availability to distributors, you should probably use Open Travel Alliance (OTA) standards: http://www.opentravel.org/
However these standards are quite recent and not widely implemented. For example TripAdvisor has its own API: http://developer.tripadvisor.com/index.html
Same thing for GDS systems.
Moreover, you will anyway have to contact each agency / GDS independently to know their conditions and pricing.