search_hotels
FlightPowers: search hotels
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FlightPowers hotel search: live Booking.com availability and nightly prices for a destination and date range. Input: a free-text destination the way a person would say it ("Rome", "Tokyo Shibuya"), plus check-in and check-out dates. Returns each property's price, review score, room type, location and a booking link.
Set price_as_seen_from to a two-letter country code to price the same stay the way a shopper resident in that country would see it, which no other travel tool here can do. Gaps are real but usually modest and property-dependent, and rates move between calls, so hold one named property fixed, call each country a few times, and never read one call per country as a gap.
A date range and a nights value price several stays in one call, like the flights tools: pass checkin_date_from, checkin_date_to and nights (a number, or a list like [2, 3, 7]) instead of a fixed checkin_date/checkout_date, and every check-in date is priced separately. The answer is stays -- one entry per stay with its cheapest property, per-night price and median -- plus cheapest_overall, and the full property list for the cheapest stay only. Each stay is one request billed to your plan; max_searches caps it, and a request that expands past the cap is sampled evenly across the range and says so in search_coverage.
Set providers to price the same stay on more than one source in one call: ["booking"] (the default), ["airbnb"], or both. Booking rows rate out of 10 and Airbnb rows out of 5, so read rating_scale on every row before comparing two of them. A source you have no RapidAPI key for is not called and is named in providers_skipped with a subscribe link, never quietly dropped.
Rates go stale within minutes: never reuse an earlier result, search 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 | any | no | First night of the stay, "YYYY-MM-DD". Give this with checkout_date for one stay, or use checkin_date_from plus checkin_date_to for a range of check-in dates. |
| checkout_date | any | no | Departure morning, "YYYY-MM-DD". Must be after checkin_date. Give either this or nights, not both. |
| checkin_date_from | any | no | First check-in date of a range, "YYYY-MM-DD". Needs checkin_date_to and nights, and prices one stay per check-in date in the range -- the hotel equivalent of the flights date range. |
| checkin_date_to | any | no | Last check-in date of the range, "YYYY-MM-DD". |
| nights | any | no | How many nights to stay, as a number (3) or a list ([2, 3, 7]) to price several lengths. Derives the check-out date from each check-in date, so it replaces checkout_date rather than joining it. |
| max_searches | any | no | Cap the billed requests this call may make. One stay is one request, so a 30-day range at two lengths is 60; lower this to spend less and the range is sampled evenly across the calendar rather than cut short at the front. |
| 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 the prices returned, e.g. "usd". |
| budget_per_night | any | no | Only return properties at or below this nightly price, in `currency`. |
| price_as_seen_from | any | no | Two-letter country code, e.g. "de". Prices the stay through a residential connection in that country, so the result is what a shopper resident there would be quoted. For a rate-parity check hold one named property fixed and call each country a few times, because rates move between calls and one call per country can show a gap that is not there. Omit it for a neutral price. |
| filters | any | no | Property filters to apply, e.g. ["free_cancellation", "breakfast_included"]. An unknown name is rejected with the list of valid ones rather than being ignored. |
| providers | any | no | Which sources to price this stay on, e.g. ["booking"], ["airbnb"] or ["booking", "airbnb"]. Defaults to ["booking"]. Each source is a separate RapidAPI subscription, so a source you have no key for is not called; it comes back named in providers_skipped with the reason and where to subscribe, rather than silently missing. filters and price_as_seen_from apply to booking only; airbnb takes price_min, price_max and room_types instead, and rows from it carry rating_scale 5 where booking's carry 10. |
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": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "First night of the stay, \"YYYY-MM-DD\". Give this with checkout_date for one stay, or use checkin_date_from plus checkin_date_to for a range of check-in dates."
},
"checkout_date": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Departure morning, \"YYYY-MM-DD\". Must be after checkin_date. Give either this or nights, not both."
},
"checkin_date_from": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "First check-in date of a range, \"YYYY-MM-DD\". Needs checkin_date_to and nights, and prices one stay per check-in date in the range -- the hotel equivalent of the flights date range."
},
"checkin_date_to": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Last check-in date of the range, \"YYYY-MM-DD\"."
},
"nights": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"items": {
"type": "integer"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "How many nights to stay, as a number (3) or a list ([2, 3, 7]) to price several lengths. Derives the check-out date from each check-in date, so it replaces checkout_date rather than joining it."
},
"max_searches": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Cap the billed requests this call may make. One stay is one request, so a 30-day range at two lengths is 60; lower this to spend less and the range is sampled evenly across the calendar rather than cut short at the front."
},
"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 the prices returned, e.g. \"usd\"."
},
"budget_per_night": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Only return properties at or below this nightly price, in `currency`."
},
"price_as_seen_from": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Two-letter country code, e.g. \"de\". Prices the stay through a residential connection in that country, so the result is what a shopper resident there would be quoted. For a rate-parity check hold one named property fixed and call each country a few times, because rates move between calls and one call per country can show a gap that is not there. Omit it for a neutral price."
},
"filters": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Property filters to apply, e.g. [\"free_cancellation\", \"breakfast_included\"]. An unknown name is rejected with the list of valid ones rather than being ignored."
},
"providers": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Which sources to price this stay on, e.g. [\"booking\"], [\"airbnb\"] or [\"booking\", \"airbnb\"]. Defaults to [\"booking\"]. Each source is a separate RapidAPI subscription, so a source you have no key for is not called; it comes back named in providers_skipped with the reason and where to subscribe, rather than silently missing. filters and price_as_seen_from apply to booking only; airbnb takes price_min, price_max and room_types instead, and rows from it carry rating_scale 5 where booking's carry 10."
}
},
"required": [
"destination"
],
"type": "object"
}