How do travel search engines & aggregators get their source data?
- by Alex
I'm tossing around a few ideas for travel search engines and I'm wondering how these sites get their source data. Do they scrape all the content from airline homepages? This seems like an enormous job given the number of airlines etc out there.
Is there some API or web service standard that every airline conforms too?
Am I going to have to negotiate access to the data APIs for every airline I wish to index?