Booking hotels for fun and profit

Expedia Affiliate Network API introduction for Yahoo! Hack Europe 2013.

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1. Booking hotels for fun and profit Yahoo! Hack Europe 2013 @SteveMarshall Saturday, 27 April 13 World’s largest online travel company Masses of data Expedia Affiliate Network’s job to share that Free access to APIs: play, experiment, build, and hack But what data?
2. Saturday, 27 April 13 Over 155,000 hotels worldwide Inventory from Expedia, Sabre and Venere Prices, room availability, reservations, images, amenities
3. Saturday, 27 April 13 Geo Search API - Location Data - Landmarks
4. Something something Hadoop Saturday, 27 April 13 Database dumps
5. Saturday, 27 April 13 MAKE MONEY Can take bookings! We can handle bookings if you don’t want to… Best travel hack: £1000 Amazon vouchers - doesn’t have to use our APIs, but has to be travel-based How do you get it all?
6. Saturday, 27 April 13 Sign up at developer.ean.com Get an API key (doesn’t yet give production access, but that’s fine for a hack)
7. So what now? Saturday, 27 April 13 API supports JSON, XML, and SOAP Now: some examples!
8. Find destinations http://api.ean.com/ean-services/rs/hotel/v3/geoSearch? cid=[you]&apiKey=[you]&destinationString=london&type=2 Saturday, 27 April 13 Search for landmarks in London
9. Find hotels http://api.ean.com/ean-services/rs/hotel/v3/list? cid=[you]&apiKey=[you]&destinationString=london Saturday, 27 April 13 Can pass search string, destination ID, or geo
10. Find rooms http://api.ean.com/ean-services/rs/hotel/v3/avail? cid=[you]&apiKey=[you]&hotelId=[hotel]& arrivalDate=04/27/2013&departureDate=04/28/2013 Saturday, 27 April 13
11. Book rooms Look at the docs! Saturday, 27 April 13 Make bookings! Make money!
12. developer.ean.com @SteveMarshall Saturday, 27 April 13