While going through my feeds yesterday, I came across something really interesting on the ProgrammableWeb feed. Cleartrip, one of the best looking airline websites in India, is planning to start an API.
This seems to have been started in conjunction with Mashery.com. However, no details are available yet. You can register and tell them about your app (I think Mashery does that by default), but the documentation is really empty.
The number of queries per day would be restricted to 1,000 a day.
Will keep you updated as soon as I have more news. In case you find something about it, do let me know.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
What’s so interesting about this?
Why would you be interested in an API from Cleartrip anyway?
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Rakesh, if you have an application which uses locations, you can now also include a realtime price of air tickets to that place.
Say you’re staying in Pune and you go to Delhi frequently, a service would drop you a mail as soon as prices get slashed for any reason…
But the best would be to create a virtual model of the realtime expected airtraffic over all of India.
It’s data afterall, you can use it however you like!!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Cleartrip may not have an API, but we do free up as much data as we can. So, if you’re hungry for data, try our RSS feeds for flights and hotels:
http://www.cleartrip.com/research/rss/
July 24th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
ps. We already have an airfare alerts product:
http://www.cleartrip.com/alerts
July 24th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Thanks for the update Hrush, I didn’t know all of this was available. How come I don’t find any information about this on your website (I assume you are from cleartrip..)
July 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Sudhanshu–I’m actually one of Cleartrip’s founders. You should stay tuned to our blog for these updates:
http://blog.cleartrip.com
July 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It’s great to have you here Hrush.
You have one new follower now
Cheers.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
No proper documenation. without it fight yorself
September 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Ritesh, I think its not complete yet. By the way as Hrush has suggested many of the features are already available on their website already.