Expedia Group Rapid API vs Travelport TripServices APIs

Expedia Group Rapid API

Expedia's lodging inventory with shop, price check, book, change and cancel in one API. Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys.

Travelport TripServices APIs

Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.

Expedia Group Rapid API

1. Build the SHA-512 signature from key, secret and the current epoch seconds in that order, per request
2. Send Customer-Ip and the session headers the docs ask for, since fraud checks use them
3. Point everything at test.ean.com until the site review is through; the paths match api.ean.com
4. Follow the links in each response rather than building URLs; price check and book links carry tokens
5. Read the Rate-Limit-Minute-Remaining and Rate-Limit-Day-Remaining headers, since the docs publish no ceilings

Travelport TripServices APIs

1. Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason
2. Send Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate and XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP (or TVP-PCC-CORE) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused
3. Send offersPerPage on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC
4. Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read Result/Error in the body even on HTTP 200
5. Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings