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booking-com

Seamlessly incorporate Booking.com inventory into your travel application.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles booking-com the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — booking-com scores 44.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 44.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile booking-com

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for booking-com. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 24

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

booking-com Accommodations API

Endpoints to search for stays such as hotels and apartments, check availability, retrieve reviews, and get detailed property information.

booking-com Availability API

Endpoints for updating room availability, pricing, and booking restrictions using B.XML format.

booking-com Cars API

Endpoints for searching available car rentals and retrieving vehicle details, pricing, and availability.

booking-com Constants API

Endpoints for retrieving reference data such as accommodation types, facility types, room types, and other enumerated values.

booking-com Conversations API

Endpoints to retrieve and manage messaging conversations, list conversations, fetch conversation details, and track updates.

booking-com Depots API

Endpoints for looking up car rental depots, including locations, reviews, and score breakdowns.

booking-com Derived Pricing API

Endpoints for managing derived pricing rules that automatically calculate rates based on a parent rate plan.

booking-com Facilities API

Endpoints for managing property-level and room-level facilities and amenities.

booking-com Inventory API

Endpoints for retrieving current inventory and rate details for active room/rate combinations.

booking-com Locations API

Endpoints for retrieving geographical location data including countries, cities, regions, and airports.

booking-com Messages API

Endpoints for two-way post-booking communication between guests and properties, allowing you to send and retrieve messages, exchange images, and check conversation details.

booking-com Orders API

Endpoints to preview and create new orders, check order details, cancel or modify existing orders.

booking-com OTA Availability API

OTA-based endpoints for availability and rate notifications following the OpenTravel Alliance specification.

booking-com OTA Legacy API

Legacy OTA-based endpoints for property content management. These endpoints follow the OpenTravel Alliance specification and are being deprecated in favor of modular APIs.

booking-com OTA Reservations API

OTA-based endpoints for reservation notification and modification following the OpenTravel Alliance specification.

booking-com Payments API

Generic payment-related endpoints, including supported currencies and payment types.

booking-com Photos API

Endpoints for adding, managing, and organizing property photos.

booking-com Promotions API

Endpoints for creating, managing, and retrieving promotional offers for properties on Booking.com.

booking-com Property Management API

Endpoints for creating and updating property information including name, location, contact details, policies, and general settings.

booking-com Rates API

Endpoints for creating and managing rate plans, including pricing rules and occupancy-based rates.

booking-com Recovery API

Endpoints for recovering reservations that were not picked up earlier or made prior to the property being connected to the system.

booking-com Reservations API

Endpoints for retrieving new, modified, and cancelled property reservations using B.XML format.

booking-com Rooms API

Endpoints for managing room types, room names, bed configurations, and room-level facilities.

booking-com Suppliers API

Endpoints for retrieving information about car rental suppliers and their offerings.

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Booking.com GraphQL Schema

This is a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Booking.com platform, covering accommodation search, availability, booking, reviews, and property management. It is derived from the ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Booking Com Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 3

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Booking.com: API access via partner / B2B contracts only
No public API pricing published — contact enterprise sales
Booking.com Connectivity APIs require Hotel Manager/Connectivity Partner approval; commission per booking.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Booking Com Context

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

booking-com API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Booking.com Accommodation

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Booking.com Order

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Booking.com Promotion

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Booking Com Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Booking Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Booking Com Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Booking Com Agentic Access

54 operations · 49 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

54 operations · 49 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for booking-com — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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