How does the site take off.com perform the search for ticket prices?

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I am thinking of creating some services to monitor the prices of plane tickets and would like to know how the site takes off.com performs its research. I mean, what kind of strategy does it use, whether it’s some kind of request in a specific URL of the sites or a robot that goes there on the same site and query and wait for the page to load with the results and reads the HTML and records the results. Would someone explain to me how?

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    I won’t answer because I don’t know for sure, but a few years ago I met a company in SP that worked only with airline webservices (WSDL). Because of this and other things, I doubt that serious companies use such methods (robot inspecting the site). If airlines are interested in selling and other companies want to sell to them, it’s only fair to use webservices to consistently provide the information.

  • I worked with price comparators and the strategies used are to use web crawlers or make partnerships where the partner sends you a file, usually XML, with the business information, in this case, tickets, hosting and etc.

  • Face cool, in brazil this is literally a mafia

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There are several companies that offer Webservice: Gol, Tourico, Webjet, Tam and others.

To answer your question, the site takes off.com uses the system Amadeus to make your inquiries.

One solution I’ve used is Flightaware API, but it only works with international flights and the license is paid for. It uses an XML-based search system.

Another one that can help is Travelport that has an exclusive area for Developers with free Webinars and support

If none of these help you, the way is to try to contact the flight companies themselves. You’ll have to work the talk and try to get in touch with someone inside the companies.

  • And remembering that even if you get the API, to sell the tickets you need to have credit in the airlines. airlines, which is not easy!

  • I worked at a company that caters to Take off, really is a mafia

  • Today a client came to me for an infra consulting to develop a travel planning solution, someone has experience who would like to share via chat?

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There is a Brazilian company that provides an API/flight webservice, including tickets with miles. If I’m not mistaken, there are Miles, Laurel and blue. The site is http://apidevoos.com.

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