compare_hotel_rates
FlightPowers: compare hotel rates across sources
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FlightPowers cross-source comparison: prices one stay on every source you have a key for. Input: a free-text destination the way a person would say it ("Rome", "Tokyo Shibuya"), check-in and check-out dates, and how many adults. Returns one row per source: the cheapest and the median stay total, how many places were found, the currency and when it was read.
Read the caveats on every row before you say one source is cheaper. rating_scale is 10 on Booking and 5 on Airbnb. taxes_included is true on Booking, where excluded taxes are folded into the price, and null on Airbnb, where we have not established the tax treatment of the display total; a null is not a no. A source you have no key for is listed in providers_skipped with a subscribe link and is not counted anywhere in the comparison.
Rates go stale within minutes: never reuse an earlier result, compare again.
Requires the caller's own RapidAPI key for the Booking Live API. Get one (free tier available) at https://rapidapi.com/mtnrabi/api/booking-live-api, then pass it as an x-rapidapi-key header (preferred), a ?rapidapi_key= query parameter on the server URL, or your client's own API key field -- first non-empty wins. Usage counts against the caller's own RapidAPI plan, not ours; every response reports what it spent and what is left in api_usage.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| destination | string | yes | Where to stay, in free text the way a person would say it, e.g. "Rome" or "Tokyo Shibuya". A city, district, landmark or region all work; no internal location ID is needed. |
| checkin_date | string | yes | First night of the stay, "YYYY-MM-DD". |
| checkout_date | string | yes | Departure morning, "YYYY-MM-DD". Must be after checkin_date. |
| adults | any | no | Number of adult guests. Defaults to the upstream default when omitted. |
| children | any | no | Number of children sharing the room. |
| currency | any | no | ISO currency code for every row, e.g. "usd". Sources are asked for the same currency so the totals are comparable; a row that came back in a different one says so in its own currency field and is not converted. |
| providers | any | no | Which sources to price, e.g. ["booking", "airbnb"]. Defaults to both. A source you have no RapidAPI key for is not called and appears in providers_skipped. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"destination": {
"description": "Where to stay, in free text the way a person would say it, e.g. \"Rome\" or \"Tokyo Shibuya\". A city, district, landmark or region all work; no internal location ID is needed.",
"type": "string"
},
"checkin_date": {
"description": "First night of the stay, \"YYYY-MM-DD\".",
"type": "string"
},
"checkout_date": {
"description": "Departure morning, \"YYYY-MM-DD\". Must be after checkin_date.",
"type": "string"
},
"adults": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Number of adult guests. Defaults to the upstream default when omitted."
},
"children": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Number of children sharing the room."
},
"currency": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "ISO currency code for every row, e.g. \"usd\". Sources are asked for the same currency so the totals are comparable; a row that came back in a different one says so in its own currency field and is not converted."
},
"providers": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Which sources to price, e.g. [\"booking\", \"airbnb\"]. Defaults to both. A source you have no RapidAPI key for is not called and appears in providers_skipped."
}
},
"required": [
"destination",
"checkin_date",
"checkout_date"
],
"type": "object"
}