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Search Gateway: Car

The Car Search Gateway permits the initiation of a car search query on the Kayak website. When executed, the user's browser is directed to the Kayak website within which a query is performed as an anonymous user. The user can traverse result links and book cars.

The base URL for this query is http://www.pinpointtravel.com/s/search/car. The table below shows the arguments which are to be GET'd.

External Variable Semantics Range Default Example
ai Affiliate identifier provided by Kayak.com. Character string. No embedded whitespace or special characters. Empty string.
p Optional Sub-Affiliate identifier. This is a pass-thru value from Kayak's perspective; used by affiliate for internal promotion tracking if desired. Character string. No embedded whitespace or special characters. Empty string.
do Answers the question: "Should we do the search as opposed to just pre-populating the search form?". y,n,on,off y
df Date format for dates in this request. us1, mdy, dmy, ymd us1
d1 Pick-up Date. Format specified by field df. (MM/DD/YYYY) 1 day in the future
d2 Drop-off Date. Format specified by field df. (MM/DD/YYYY) 4 days in the future
t1 Pick-up hour. 0->23 military time 9
t2 Drop-off hour. 0->23 military time 9
ap Airport Code 3 character airport code.  
ap2 Drop-off Airport Code 3 character airport code.  
crc City, Region, Country combined in single string separated by commas. We assume a comma separated list of City, State, Country.  
crc2 Drop-off City, Region, Country combined in single string separated by commas. We assume a comma separated list of City, State, Country.  
b Brand Identifier used to preset the search-result filter so that only this brand is shown in the initial results. Brand identifier as shown in the list under Example column.  
 
 
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