Hotels.com API
No standalone Hotels.com API. Programmatic inventory, pricing, and booking access runs exclusively through Expedia's EPS Rapid, which requires application, certification, and negotiated terms. The affiliate program provides deep links and widgets, not data feeds.
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Hotels.com scores F on the API Report Card. No standalone Hotels.com API. Programmatic inventory, pricing, and booking access runs exclusively through Expedia's EPS Rapid, which requires application, certification, and negotiated terms. The affiliate program provides deep links and widgets, not data feeds.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Hotels.com is a global online travel agency (OTA) consumer brand owned and operated by Expedia Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), specializing in hotel and short-term accommodation bookings.
Vertical: Travel & Expense (specifically: consumer online travel agency / hotel-specific OTA). A consumer searches hotels.com (or the iOS/Android app) for a destination and date range, filters by price, star rating, amenities, and member-only rates, and books a hotel room paying via credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, or Affirm.
High as a consumer brand, low as an independent platform. Hotels.com is one of the most recognized hotel-booking brand names in the United States (top-five hotel-booking site by direct traffic) and historically one of the top hotel-specific OTAs globally.
For any vendor or partner Supergood would target, Hotels.com is data-thin as an independent platform because virtually all critical data has been consolidated onto the Brand Expedia / Expedia Group data plane since the 2023-2024 migration.
Founded 1991 as Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), rebranded to Hotels.com in 2002, acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2002, and folded into the public Expedia, Inc.
No standalone Hotels.com developer API, developers asking 'how do I get the Hotels.com API?' are routinely told to integrate Expedia Partner Solutions Rapid API instead, with no Hotels.com-specific path. Hotels.com Affiliate Program does not expose an API for affiliates to read inventory or pricing programmatically, affiliates get deep links, widgets, and reports but not raw data feeds. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Priceline, Airbnb, Trivago. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.