Sabre offers an API called Get Hotel Avail V2 to help you find properties that meet your travelers' needs. Through using the API, in one request, your application:
- Shops for lodging from multiple supplier sources
- Filters using simple or advanced search criteria
- Receives property information including: amenities, ratings, lead price, and a hero image
This is the second generation of our API. It is improved to deliver more content from multiple sources. There are a lot of channels of distribution for lodging and this API helps you avoid the pain of searching through multiple sites.
Because all of that data might look different across suppliers, we designed the API to put all of the rate, description, and other information into a standardized data structure. We refer to that consistent organization as "normalization."
The goal is empowering you to build solutions that will help your travelers find dream offers.
What does the sample app look like when it runs? Here is a screen shot:
There is an article serving as a partner to this sample app source code. You’ll find explanations and additional resources written in it to add context whenever possible.
There are a few one-time only steps for installing pre-requisites listed below.
The sample app is written in NodeJS. You’ll need to have its run-time installed on your local development computer. If you’ve never installed NodeJS please refer to the Node Foundation to find an installer most appropriate for your O/S.
Take a copy of the source code from our repo stored on GitHub. When you browse the availability sample app repo you’ll find the green button labeled "clone". Clicking it reveals the URL you’ll use to git clone, which is how source code is first copied down from the server to your computer.
You’ll need your Sabre REST APIs CERT-environment credentials. They’re used by the sample app as part of the authentication flow to call Get Hotel Availability.
Once you’ve installed NodeJS, and pulled down a copy of the source code, you’ll need to install the app’s open-source dependencies. That’s accomplished by running this command in the local copy of the source code:
npm install
The npm (Node Package Manager) tool will pull down copies of all open-source code this app refers to. File transfers might take a few minutes.
Using the APIs requires entering credentials so that the app can find them. Part of its logic is requesting a token in order to properly call the Get Hotel Availability API. Tokens are gained in part from private credentials.
Simply open up the app’s source code and look at the file named config.js to find where they’re declared. There are two attributes (userSecret and appId) where values can be copied-in as hardcoded strings. Alternatively, they can be picked-up from O/S environment variables that you create on your local development machine.
exports.api = {
apiEndPoint: 'https://api-crt.cert.havail.sabre.com',
userSecret: process.env.SWS_API_SECRET || '',
appId: process.env.SWS_APP_ID || '',
};
Environment variables are preferred in this sample app because it keeps them hidden and protected. In this case all code is publicly visible in revision control, and that’s not the place for private information.
appId– is your application identifier and read more about setupuserSecret– is a base64-encoded string computed from steps you can read more about
The sample app is ready to run after setup. Enter this command in the local copy of the source code to run the sample app:
npm start
When this works normally the app renders a list of lodging options showing property information and lead rates from the content sources. What you will see should look very similar to the image found above. Results match a radial distance from an airport for a particular date and time.
Changing hotel search criteria is easy. Simply open up the app’s source code and look at the file named searchCriteria.js to find the airport and dates used to search for availability. Update any of the attributes with valid values and restart the app to see the search results.
const SearchCriteria = {
location: {
airportCode: 'DFW',
},
date: {
checkIn: '2019-08-01',
checkOut: '2019-08-05',
},
};
Occasionally, availability results are not found. In that case adjust the checkIn and checkOut parameters to move them a little farther into the future. Certain properties simply don’t have availability some days.
Make use of this sample app as a testing tool. It’s a simple, flexible, jumping-off point for learning how to use Sabre APIs in general, and Get Hotel Availability in particular. Look up the docs and discover all that it can do. Find something interesting? Call it by changing the request attribute values found in the file hotelAvailabilityModel.js. Save the file and run the app to see how the updates perform.
Get in touch with us. GitHub allows communication through its repo-level issue and pull request channels. Use the built-in issues section.
We also have an active community on Stack Overflow.
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