Plan Trips, Find Airfares and Hotels with Yahoo! Travel Web Services

Yahoo! Travel enables you to plan your trips, explore destinations, find airfares, get ratings and reviews for hotels, find things to do, and share your plans with others. The Yahoo! Travel web services enable you to build applications that use the trip plan data from the Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner. You can also place a Yahoo! Travel FareChase search form on your web site using our HTML templates.

How Do I Get Started?

Using the API or Web Service

Overview

Yahoo! offers two APIs for accessing trip plans created by Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner. Both of these API use a REST-like interface for requests and can return either XML or JSON output.

Yahoo! Travel FareChase Easy Search Form

The Yahoo! Travel FareChase search engine enables you to find the best deals in flights, hotels and rental cars. You can place a Yahoo! FareChase Easy Search Form on your own page using HTML or an embedded iframe.

Rate Limits

The Yahoo! Travel Web Services typically have rate limits. See the documentation for each API for details, and the information on rate limiting.

Terms of Use

The Yahoo! Travel services are limited to non-commercial use only. See information on our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses.

Support & Community

The Yahoo! Travel Web Services are discussed on the yws-travel mailing list.