Using Impala.travel API for Booking Reservations

Impala.travel provides an easy-to-use booking API for developers to integrate booking functionality into their applications or websites. In this guide, we will walk through the steps to get started with Impala's booking API and provide some useful example code in JavaScript.

Getting Started

To begin, you'll need to sign up for an Impala.travel account and obtain an API token. Once you have your token, you can start making API queries to retrieve booking data and create new bookings.

Retrieving Booking Data

To retrieve information about existing bookings, you can use the GET /bookings endpoint. Here's an example of how to fetch all bookings for a given hotel:

fetch('https://api.impala.travel/v1/bookings?hotel_id=1234', {
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
  }
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data)
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error)
  })

In this example, replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with your own Impala.travel API token, and 1234 with the ID of the hotel whose bookings you want to retrieve.

Creating New Bookings

To create a new booking, you can use the POST /bookings endpoint. Here's some example code to show you how to create a new booking:

const data = {
  hotel_id: 1234,
  guest: {
    name: 'John Doe',
    email: 'john.doe@example.com',
    phone: '+1 (123) 456-7890'
  },
  stay: {
    check_in: '2022-06-07',
    check_out: '2022-06-12',
    room_type: 'Double'
  }
}

fetch('https://api.impala.travel/v1/bookings', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data)
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error)
  })

This code sends a POST request to the Impala.travel API with the required booking data. When the response comes back, the code logs the response data to the console.

Conclusion

In this guide, we've provided some helpful examples of how to use the Impala.travel booking API to retrieve existing bookings and create new ones. By following these examples, you can easily integrate booking functionality into your own application or website.