Travel-hacking-toolkit rapidapi

Search Google Flights Live and Booking.com Live via RapidAPI. Use as a secondary source for flight cash prices and hotel availability/pricing. Triggers on "Booking.com", "booking prices", "RapidAPI", "secondary flight search", "hotel prices on Booking", or when SerpAPI results need a second opinion. Also useful for vacation rental pricing.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/rapidapi" ~/.claude/skills/borski-travel-hacking-toolkit-rapidapi && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/rapidapi/SKILL.md

source content

RapidAPI Skill

Search Google Flights and Booking.com via RapidAPI scrapers. Secondary source for cash flight prices and hotel/vacation rental pricing.

Sources:

Authentication

RAPIDAPI_KEY

is set in

.env

. All requests use

x-rapidapi-key

header.

Google Flights Live API

Real-time Google Flights scraping. Use when SerpAPI results seem stale or you want a second price opinion.

Search One-Way

curl -s -X POST "https://google-flights-live-api.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/searchFlights" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-host: google-flights-live-api.p.rapidapi.com" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "origin": "SFO",
    "destination": "NRT",
    "date": "2026-08-10",
    "adults": 2,
    "cabinClass": "economy",
    "currency": "USD"
  }' | jq '.'

Search Round Trip

curl -s -X POST "https://google-flights-live-api.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/searchFlights" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-host: google-flights-live-api.p.rapidapi.com" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "origin": "SFO",
    "destination": "NRT",
    "date": "2026-08-10",
    "returnDate": "2026-08-26",
    "adults": 2,
    "cabinClass": "economy",
    "currency": "USD"
  }' | jq '.'

Parameters

Param	Required	Description
`origin`	Yes	Airport IATA code
`destination`	Yes	Airport IATA code
`date`	Yes	`YYYY-MM-DD` departure
`returnDate`	No	`YYYY-MM-DD` for round trip
`adults`	No	Default 1
`children`	No	Default 0
`infants`	No	Default 0
`cabinClass`	No	`economy` , `premium_economy` , `business` , `first`
`currency`	No	Default `USD`

Booking.com Live API

Search hotels and vacation rentals with real Booking.com pricing. Good complement to SerpAPI Hotels and LiteAPI.

Search Hotels

curl -s "https://booking-live-api.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/searchHotels?location=Tokyo%2C%20Japan&checkin=2026-08-10&checkout=2026-08-13&adults=2&rooms=1&currency=USD" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-host: booking-live-api.p.rapidapi.com" | jq '.'

Parameters

Param	Required	Description
`location`	Yes	City/area name: `Tokyo, Japan`
`checkin`	Yes	`YYYY-MM-DD`
`checkout`	Yes	`YYYY-MM-DD`
`adults`	No	Default 2
`children`	No	Default 0
`rooms`	No	Default 1
`currency`	No	Default `USD`
`sortBy`	No	`price` , `rating` , `popularity`
`minPrice`	No	Minimum price filter
`maxPrice`	No	Maximum price filter
`starRating`	No	`3,4,5` comma-separated

Get Hotel Details

curl -s "https://booking-live-api.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/getHotelDetails?hotelId=HOTEL_ID&checkin=2026-08-10&checkout=2026-08-13&adults=2" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "x-rapidapi-host: booking-live-api.p.rapidapi.com" | jq '.'

Rate Limits

Free tier: 100 requests/month across all RapidAPI APIs. Use sparingly. Prefer SerpAPI for flights and LiteAPI/SerpAPI for hotels as primary sources.

When to Use

Google Flights Live: Secondary price check when SerpAPI results seem off, or for routes SerpAPI doesn't cover well.
Booking.com Live: When you want Booking.com specific pricing/availability (different inventory than Google Hotels).

Do not:

Use as primary search (SerpAPI and Seats.aero are primary).
Burn through free tier on broad searches. Be targeted.