Expedia API
Expedia's developer surface is Expedia Partner Solutions' Rapid API: geography, content, shopping, booking, and webhook notification endpoints spanning 500,000+ properties. Docs, sandbox, and an API explorer are public, but production access requires partner approval and certification.
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Expedia scores B+ on Supergood's API Report Card. Expedia's developer surface is Expedia Partner Solutions' Rapid API: geography, content, shopping, booking, and webhook notification endpoints spanning 500,000+ properties. Docs, sandbox, and an API explorer are public, but production access requires partner approval and certification.
Expedia has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
Expedia Group, Inc. is the Seattle, Washington-headquartered online travel technology company best known for its flagship consumer brand Expedia.com plus a portfolio of nine other travel brands.
Vertical: Travel & Expense (more specifically: online travel agency + lodging distribution + B2B travel API infrastructure). Consumer booking of flights, hotels, vacation rentals, rental cars, cruises, packages, and activities across Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, and ebookers.
Very high. Expedia is one of the two global lodging-distribution duopolists (with Booking Holdings, Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK), and Vrbo is one of the two global short-term-rental platforms (with Airbnb).
Hotel/lodging inventory: 800,000+ properties, 310,000 destinations, 32M+ images, 76M+ reviews. Live rates and availability streams (millions of price calls per minute at peak). Bookings, itineraries, PNR-equivalent records, e-vouchers, cancellation/modification history.
Founded 1996 (30 years old as of 2026). Originally Microsoft Expedia Travel Services, now one of the most acquisition-built portfolios in travel.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Expedia has partial MCP support. Expedia Group publishes an official open source MCP server with install docs and activity in 2026, but it covers only the Travel Recommendation Service API. It returns hotel, flight, activity, and car recommendations and does not expose booking or the broader API surface.
Partially. MCP support for Expedia exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.