Booking.com API

Name: Booking.com API API
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For Agents

Search hotels, check availability, and create accommodation bookings on Booking.com programmatically.

Quickstart

Get started with Booking.com API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search Booking.com hotels"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Booking.com API API.

Search the Booking.com inventory for hotels matching a destination and date range

Retrieve full hotel details including room types and amenities for a given hotel ID

Check room availability and price for a specific hotel before booking

Create a booking on behalf of a traveller with their stay dates and guest details

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Use for: I need to search hotels in Lisbon for next weekend, Get the details for a specific hotel I am considering, Check whether the hotel has rooms available for my stay dates, Create a booking for two guests at the selected hotel

Not supported: Does not handle flights, car rentals, or attraction tickets — use for Booking.com hotel and accommodation search, availability, and booking only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Booking.com API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Booking.com API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Booking.com is one of the largest accommodation marketplaces and exposes an API for searching hotels, checking availability, and creating bookings. This spec covers a focused set of five core endpoints: hotel search, hotel detail lookup, availability check, booking creation, and booking retrieval. Use it to surface accommodation options inside your own travel product, confirm rooms before booking, and place reservations on behalf of a traveller.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Booking.com API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Embedded Accommodation Search in a Travel App

Surface Booking.com hotel inventory inside your own travel planning product so users can search and book without leaving the app. GET /hotels/search returns matching hotels for a destination and date range, and GET /hotels/{hotelId} returns the detail used in the listing page. Removes the need to maintain your own accommodation supply pipeline.

GET /hotels/search?destination=Lisbon&check_in=2026-07-12&check_out=2026-07-15&guests=2

Availability-Confirmed Booking Flow

Confirm that a hotel still has rooms at the quoted price before charging the traveller, then place the booking. GET /availability checks live availability for the chosen hotel and dates, and POST /bookings completes the reservation. Avoids the bad customer experience of a booking failure after payment is captured.

GET /availability for hotelId 12345 and dates 2026-07-12 to 2026-07-15, then POST /bookings if available

Itinerary Sync and Receipts

Pull booking detail back into the user's account or a corporate travel system using GET /bookings/{bookingId} once a reservation has been made. Useful for travel apps that consolidate itineraries or expense systems that need to attach receipts. Eliminates the need for the traveller to manually forward confirmation emails.

GET /bookings/BK-998877 and write the result to the trip itinerary record

AI Agent Travel Booking Assistant

An AI travel agent uses Jentic to discover Booking.com operations, searches accommodation, confirms availability, and places bookings on behalf of a user from a single natural-language request. The Booking.com API key lives in the Jentic vault so the agent never sees the raw key. Replaces a multi-step manual booking flow with a single search-load-execute cycle per action.

Search Jentic for 'create a Booking.com hotel booking', load the operation, and execute it for the chosen hotel and stay dates

Key Endpoints

5 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for booking.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/hotels/search

Search hotels by destination and dates

GET

/hotels/{hotelId}

Retrieve hotel details

GET

/availability

Check availability for a hotel and date range

POST

/bookings

Create a booking

GET

/bookings/{bookingId}

Retrieve a booking

GET

/hotels/search

Search hotels by destination and dates

GET

/hotels/{hotelId}

Retrieve hotel details

GET

/availability

Check availability for a hotel and date range

POST

/bookings

Create a booking

GET

/bookings/{bookingId}

Retrieve a booking

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Booking.com API keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem) and exchanged for scoped, short-lived access at execution time. The raw partner key never enters the agent's prompt context or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with intents like 'search Booking.com hotels' or 'create a hotel booking' and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema, removing the need to read the partner reference docs.

Time to first call

Direct Booking.com integration: 1-2 weeks for partner onboarding, auth, search, and booking flows. Through Jentic: under an hour with search, load, and execute against the existing partner credential.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

BookingSync API

BookingSync focuses on short-term rental management while Booking.com is a hotel marketplace.

Choose Booking.com for hotel inventory; choose BookingSync for vacation rental property management.

Complementary

BoldSign API

Sign a corporate travel agreement in BoldSign before booking via Booking.com.

Pair when corporate stays require a signed travel policy or rate agreement.

Complementary

Bond API

Issue a travel-specific virtual card via Bond and pay for the Booking.com reservation with it.

Use this combination for fintechs building travel products with embedded card issuance.

FAQs

Specific to using Booking.com API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Booking.com API?

Booking.com does not publish an OpenAPI specification — its developer portal documents the API in HTML reference. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so AI agents and developers can call Booking.com via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Booking.com API use?

Booking.com uses an API key sent in the Authorization header. Through Jentic the key is held in the encrypted vault and only a scoped, short-lived token reaches the agent context — the raw partner key never enters logs or prompts.

Can I create a hotel booking through the Booking.com API?

Yes. POST /bookings with the hotelId, check-in and check-out dates, and guest details. We recommend calling GET /availability first to confirm the room is still available at the quoted price before placing the booking.

How do I search hotels by destination through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'search Booking.com hotels', load the GET /hotels/search operation schema, then execute it with the destination and date range. The response returns matching hotels with their IDs you can pass to GET /hotels/{hotelId}.

What are the rate limits for the Booking.com API?

Formal rate limits are not declared in this OpenAPI specification. Booking.com partner programs typically apply per-second and per-day caps — back off on HTTP 429 responses and avoid repeatedly polling /availability for the same hotel.

Can I retrieve a booking after it has been created?

Yes. GET /bookings/{bookingId} returns the booking detail, including stay dates, guest count, and status. Useful for itinerary sync or expense reporting.