API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

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API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by Manya_9087 » Sat Oct 15, 2022 1:04 pm

Hi

Manya is here, I'm looking for an API or a web scrapper that can get integrated with a hotel booking application and provide pricing data for different hotels.
I have developed a travel booking app before, but this time I want to provide users with the best competitive rates possible.

Please share the API or any other possible way to make this happen.

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by FourthWorld » Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:24 pm

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by richmond62 » Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:08 pm

Please share the API or any other possible way to make this happen.
Please can you develop a whole software suite for me for nothing so I don't have to
make any effort . . . ?

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by FourthWorld » Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:49 pm

In all fairness, looking for libraries to handle common tasks like scraping is not unreasonable.

In the case I'd put 50/50 odds on this post just being a spam lead-in. I would like to be wrong, so I've invited the OP to discuss what connection there may be with these forums. If no answer is provided within a few days I'll drop this thread.
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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by Manya_9087 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:15 am

Hi Richard,
I'm a new user on this forum. I was digging through the internet for a good hotel rate provider tool that can help me add the feature to my current hotel booking app project.
I also tried out, quora and searched many tech forums. I decided to post this question here because I thought I will get the information here probably. And, as you said web scraping in not unreasonable if it's used for a common task. I'm not here to spam just to learn and contribute.

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by Manya_9087 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:18 am

richmond62 wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:08 pm
Please share the API or any other possible way to make this happen.
Please can you develop a whole software suite for me for nothing so I don't have to
make any effort . . . ?
Yeah, of course, I will. I will need basic information about the project.

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by FourthWorld » Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:42 am

This is the forum for the LiveCode programming language. Are you using LiveCode for this project?
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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by Manya_9087 » Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:02 pm

FourthWorld wrote:
Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:42 am
This is the forum for the LiveCode programming language. Are you using LiveCode for this project?
Yes! I do.

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Re: API or a Web Scrapper For Hotel Booking APP

Post by FourthWorld » Mon Oct 17, 2022 6:05 pm

Scraping is useful for small things and one-offs, but it's an endless revision nightmare for ongoing work.

Where available, APIs can provide the data more easily and in a more usable format.

The Expedia API would seem a good starting point:
https://expediapartnersolutions.com/products/api
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