Expose BookingCom listing URL in API (listing object)
1.) What is the idea/improvement you'd like to see implemented?
Please add the bookingCom listing URL in the listing object (object returned by REST API when requesting https://api.hostaway.com/v1/listings) just like following values:
- airbnbListingUrl (existing)
- vrboListingUrl (existing)
- googleVrListingUrl (existing)
- bookingComUrl (missing ❌)
2.) What problem would this solve for you?
We built a custom frontend for our customers (property owners) and we display them all the listing URLs for all channels. But we can't display the bookinCom URL automatically.
3.) What are you currently doing to work around this issue?
We need to copy the link manually from Hostaway listing dashboard and send our customers manually (e.g. by mail). This is a lot of manual overhead and sometimes we have typos in the URL (e.g. link was not copied correctly or changed by mistake), which causes complaints by our customers.
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Official comment
Hi Sefa, I am from Hostaway's product team, and I appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback.
This channel does not provide the listing URL to us via API, so we create the link using the URL's pattern, which relies on the listing's name. This process is not 100% reliable since property names are not unique, so we don't expose the data via Public API.
We will bring the feedback forward and if the link is included on the partner's API, we will add it to our own as well!
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See also conversation with Ryan David: https://support.hostaway.com/hc/en-us/requests/244860
I think this feature should be easy to implement for your dev team, because you already have the URL in your system. Otherwise, we couldn't have it in the Web UI https://dashboard.hostaway.com/listing/<listing ID> e.g.:
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+1, please implement
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Still stuck with this problem. We still copy the link manually which is both laborous and error prone. Please expose bookingComUrl in your API.
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