Expedia Affiliate Network API
Expedia Partner Solutions ships the Rapid API: modular REST surfaces for geography, content, shopping, booking, and notifications. Access is partner-only: application, approval, and certification, with no self-serve signup. Industry estimates put full integrations at 6 to 12 months.
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Expedia Affiliate Network scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Expedia Partner Solutions ships the Rapid API: modular REST surfaces for geography, content, shopping, booking, and notifications. Access is partner-only: application, approval, and certification, with no self-serve signup. Industry estimates put full integrations at 6 to 12 months.
Expedia Affiliate Network has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) is the original brand for Expedia Group's B2B affiliate and API-distribution business, dating back to the early 2000s when Expedia first opened its lodging inventory to third-party resellers via an XML web service.
Vertical: misc, B2B Travel API / Online Travel Reseller Infrastructure / Lodging Distribution (closest Supergood neighbor is Travel & Expense, but EAN/EPS Rapid is squarely a developer-facing distribution API, not a T&E expense tool). Hotel shopping, Live availability and pricing across 800,000+ properties via the Shopping API, filtered by check-in/check-out dates, occupancy, rate plan, room type, sustainability attributes, and amenity filters.
9/10 within B2B travel distribution. Expedia is one of two global lodging-distribution duopolists (with Booking Holdings, Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK) and consistently ranks as the #1 OTA in the United States.
Yes, for every B2B partner running on EAN/Rapid, Expedia is the system of record (or primary remote source of truth) for mission-critical booking data: Hotel/lodging inventory data: 800,000+ properties, 310,000 destinations, 32M+ images, 76M+ reviews, descriptions, amenities, room types, policies, geo-coordinates, sustainability attributes, all in 40 languages.
EAN traces its lineage to the early 2000s as Expedia's first XML web service for third-party resellers, making the affiliate-distribution franchise roughly 20+ years old. The underlying parent company was founded in 1996 inside Microsoft.
Partner-only access, must apply, be approved, certify integration, and pass technical/commercial review before going live; no self-serve developer sign-up like Stripe or Twilio. Long integration cycles, industry estimates of 6-12 months for full Rapid integration; $100K-$200K+ in dev costs and $30K-$50K/year in ongoing maintenance per third-party integrator. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Booking.com Affiliate Partner Program / Booking.com Demand API, Hotelbeds APITUDE (American Express GBT), Sabre Hospitality / SynXis (now TPG-owned), Amadeus Hospitality, Travelport (Galileo, Apollo, Worldspan), RateHawk / Emerging Travel Group (ETG). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
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 Affiliate Network has partial MCP support. Expedia Group's official MCP server covers only its Travel Recommendation Service, and no server exists for the affiliate network's Rapid booking APIs. Affiliates get recommendation lookups at best, with nothing specific to affiliate integration.
Partially. MCP support for Expedia Affiliate Network exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.