Rakuten Travel name search
Rakuten Travel hotel numbers for a hotel name, from Rakuten's own keyword search, with the hotel_no POST /v1/ota/rakuten takes. Rakuten lists hotels under Japanese names only, so an English name with no match is looked up on Yahoo! Travel for its Japanese name and searched again (translated says so). No candidate is free.
Request
https://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/ota/rakuten/searchAuthenticate with your API key in the x-api-key header (see Authentication).
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Body
JSON object. Unknown fields are rejected with 422.
- namestringrequiredmin length 1, max length 120
Hotel name as a guest would type it. Japanese and Korean sites list most hotels under their local-language name only.
- citystringdefault
max length 80City or area, used to rank candidates.
- limitintegerdefault
5min 1, max 10Most candidates returned.
Example request
curl -X POST "https://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/ota/rakuten/search" \
-H "x-api-key: $SCRAPERCOMPANY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "ホテルニューオータニ"
}'Response
200 — Rakuten Travel hotel numbers for a name. Metered responses carry x-credits-charged and x-credits-remaining headers (see credit headers).
{
"search_parameters": {
"engine": "rakuten_search",
"name": "ホテルニューオータニ",
"city": "東京",
"limit": 2
},
"search_status": "matched",
"recommended_match": {
"hotel_no": "28439",
"name": "ホテルニューオータニ",
"area": "東京都 東京２３区内 赤坂・六本木・霞ヶ関・永田町",
"url": "https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/HOTEL/28439/28439.html",
"upstream_rank": 0,
"identity_score": 1,
"match_score": 1,
"confidence": "high",
"city_score": 1
},
"warnings": [],
"matches": [
{
"hotel_no": "28439",
"name": "ホテルニューオータニ",
"area": "東京都 東京２３区内 赤坂・六本木・霞ヶ関・永田町",
"url": "https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/HOTEL/28439/28439.html",
"upstream_rank": 0,
"identity_score": 1,
"match_score": 1,
"confidence": "high",
"city_score": 1
},
{
"hotel_no": "1443",
"name": "ニューオータニイン東京",
"area": "東京都 東京２３区内 品川・大井町・蒲田・羽田空港",
"url": "https://travel.rakuten.co.jp/HOTEL/1443/1443.html",
"upstream_rank": 3,
"identity_score": 0.75,
"match_score": 0.8,
"confidence": "high",
"city_score": 1
}
],
"meta": {
"source": "rakuten",
"matches": 2,
"selection_method": "name_city_confidence",
"match_threshold": 0.8,
"match_margin": 0.12,
"upstream_hits": 5,
"requests": 1,
"elapsed_s": 1.097
}
}Errors
Errors return a JSON body with a detail field. Failed requests are not charged. See Errors for the full list and retry advice.
| Status | Meaning | Retry? |
|---|---|---|
401Unauthorized | Missing or invalid API key. {"detail":"missing or invalid API key"} | No, fix the request |
402Payment Required | Not enough credits for this request: the account's credits mode is {"detail":"insufficient credits: this request costs 5, 0 available. Credits renew 2026-11-01."} | No, fix the request |
422Unprocessable Content | Request validation failed. {"detail":[{"loc":["body","name"],"msg":"Field required","type":"missing"}]} | No, fix the request |
429Too Many Requests | Too many requests: the key's requests-per-minute limit was exceeded, or (in {"detail":"rate limit 60/min exceeded"} | Yes, with backoff |
503Service Unavailable | Temporarily unavailable: a dependency of this endpoint is down, or the upstream source changed its contract. Retry later. {"detail":"database unavailable: OperationalError"} | Yes, with backoff |
Try it
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