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How do travel sites "get" airline fares?
How do travel booking sites (travelocity, expedia, itasoftware) get the database of airline fares?
Do they purchase a service from someone that provides them with a stream of fares and updates or do they go scrape screens?
I had assumed they purchased a feed from someplace but then I saw "The O'Hare Affair", a programming puzzle on ITA Software's web page and it seems like they scrape screens.
Ideas?
- Psyonic 17y agoTrust me, ITA isn't scraping screens to get their data.
- nixy 17y agoI believe most of them use Amadeus http://www.amadeus.net http://www.amadeus.net http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_CRS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_CRS
- gaius 17y agoAlso http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)