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Pull live Tongcheng Travel data in the time it takes to read this sentence.

Flights, hotels, trains, buses, and scenic-spot attraction tickets — with deep reach into China's lower-tier city markets and native WeChat Mini-Program booking data — structured and delivered as clean JSON or CSV.

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WeChat-native Mini-Program booking data
<3s avg. response time
99.9% uptime SLA
50M+ requests / month served
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Why Choose Our Tongcheng Travel API

Backed by Tencent, built for WeChat — and for the county-level cities other OTAs barely reach.

Tongcheng Travel (merged with eLong) runs natively inside WeChat Mini-Programs and has particularly deep penetration into China's lower-tier ("sinking market") cities, alongside scenic-spot ticketing and long-distance bus booking that larger platforms treat as an afterthought. Our infrastructure resolves Mini-Program booking availability, scenic-spot ticket detail, and bus route data as explicit fields.

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Zero blocking, zero maintenance

We run rotating residential IPs, headless rendering, and CAPTCHA-solving behind every request. When Tongcheng Travel changes its layout, we patch our parsers — your integration never breaks.

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WeChat Mini-Program booking data

Every response flags whether a listing is bookable natively within the WeChat Mini-Program, without leaving the app.

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Scenic-spot & bus ticket extraction

We resolve attraction ticket pricing, entry time slots, and long-distance bus route/seat availability as first-class fields.

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Built for scale from day one

From a 100-listing test batch to full lower-tier-city monitoring, the same endpoint scales with you.

Tongcheng Travel API Features

Everything you need to keep Tongcheng Travel data flowing.

Real-time extraction

Trigger an on-demand pull for any route, hotel, or attraction and get a fresh response — not a stale cache.

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Custom field selection

Request only the fields you need — Mini-Program flag, ticket slot, bus seat — to cut payload size and parsing time.

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WeChat Mini-Program extraction

Pull native Mini-Program booking availability and WeChat Pay support per listing.

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Scenic-spot ticket resolution

Return attraction entry ticket pricing, time-slot availability, and combo-ticket bundles.

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Long-distance bus extraction

Resolve coach route, departure time, and seat availability for intercity bus travel.

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Historical price tracking

Store and query price history per listing to power demand-forecasting tools.

What Data Can You Access?

Every field a listing shows — Mini-Program and scenic-spot detail included.

FlightsFare & seat availabilityDomestic routes including lower-tier city airports
HotelsRoom price & typePer-night price by room category
TrainsSeat class & availabilityHigh-speed and regional rail seat stock
BusesCoach route & seat availabilityLong-distance intercity bus schedules
AttractionsScenic-spot ticket priceEntry ticket price by time slot
AttractionsCombo-ticket bundlesMulti-attraction bundled ticket pricing
Mini-ProgramNative booking availabilityBookable within WeChat without leaving the app
PaymentWeChat Pay supportNative payment method eligibility
GeographyCity tier classificationTier 1/2/3/lower-tier city flag for a listing
ReviewsGuest reviews & ratingsText, rating, verified-stay badge, date
PolicyCancellation policyFree cancellation window, refund terms
LocaleCurrency & languageCNY pricing, Simplified Chinese content
Supported Tongcheng Travel Products

Flights, hotels, trains, buses, and attractions — one integration.

Switch the product parameter to pull data for a specific Tongcheng Travel offering with the same consistent response shape.

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Flights & Trains

Domestic routes with strong lower-tier city coverage.

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Hotels

Room pricing across tier 1 through county-level cities.

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Buses

Long-distance coach routes and seat availability.

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Scenic Spots

Attraction tickets with time-slot and combo pricing.

CoverageLower-tier reachDeep coverage of China's county-level city markets
ChannelWeChat-nativeMini-Program booking availability flagged per listing
FreshnessReal-timeFare and ticket data checked on every request
Tongcheng Travel API Endpoints

A small set of endpoints that cover the whole booking lifecycle.

Method Endpoint Description Typical use
GET /v1/tongcheng/flights Flight search results by route & date Fare monitoring
GET /v1/tongcheng/hotels Hotel search results & room pricing by city Rate monitoring
GET /v1/tongcheng/trains Train seat class & availability by route Rail-fare monitoring
GET /v1/tongcheng/buses Long-distance coach route & seat availability Intercity bus fare monitoring
GET /v1/tongcheng/attractions Scenic-spot ticket pricing & time slots Attraction pricing intelligence
GET /v1/tongcheng/miniprogram WeChat Mini-Program booking availability by listing WeChat channel analysis
POST /v1/tongcheng/bulk Submit up to 10,000 listing IDs per batch job Portfolio-wide monitoring
Live API Response Example

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Popular Tongcheng Travel API Use Cases

Built for the teams that live and die by Tongcheng Travel data.

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Fare & rate monitoring

Track live flight, hotel, and train pricing across Chinese cities, including lower-tier markets.

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Sinking-market research

Analyze pricing and demand trends specific to county-level and lower-tier Chinese cities.

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Scenic-spot pricing intelligence

Track attraction ticket pricing and combo-bundle trends across destinations.

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Intercity bus market research

Analyze long-distance coach route coverage and seat pricing.

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WeChat channel analysis

Study Mini-Program booking adoption and WeChat Pay usage across listings.

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Rate-parity tracking

Track where and at what price your hotel or attraction appears on Tongcheng Travel.

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Competitive benchmarking

Compare pricing against Fliggy, Ctrip, and Meituan across the Chinese market.

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ML training data

Generate labeled fare, ticket, and review datasets for pricing models.

How the Tongcheng Travel API Works

From API key to structured data in five steps.

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Get your API key

Sign up and generate a key from your dashboard in under two minutes.

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Choose an endpoint

Pick /flights, /hotels, /attractions or /buses depending on what you need.

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Send the request

Call the endpoint with a route, city, or listing ID.

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We handle the hard part

Proxies, headless rendering, CAPTCHA-solving, and parsing all happen behind the scenes.

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Receive structured data

Get clean JSON or CSV back in seconds, ready to drop into your pipeline.

Developer-Friendly Integration

Built by people who read the docs too.

One consistent JSON schema across every product and every endpoint. No SDK lock-in — plain REST calls work from any language or platform.

Predictable REST design

Standard HTTP verbs, query params, and status codes — nothing proprietary to learn.

JSON, CSV, or webhook delivery

Get results inline, as a downloadable file, or pushed to your endpoint when a batch job finishes.

Sandbox & test keys

Free sandbox environment with sample listing IDs so you can build before you pay.

Postman collection & SDK snippets

Import a ready-made collection or copy request snippets for Python, Node.js, and cURL.

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API Performance & Reliability

Numbers we publish because we track them daily.

99.9%
Uptime SLA
<3s
Avg. response time
99.3%
Successful extraction rate
10K+
Concurrent requests supported
Security & Compliance

Compliant by design, not as an afterthought.

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Encrypted in transit

All requests and responses travel over TLS 1.2+. API keys can be scoped and rotated anytime.

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China PIPL & regional alignment

Our extraction workflows are built around China's PIPL alongside other regional data protection guidelines.

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Public-data-only policy

We collect only publicly accessible fare and listing data — never login-gated booking, payment, or WeChat account information.

ISO 9001:2015 Certified ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certified IAF Multilateral Recognition GDPR-aligned workflows
API Documentation & Resources

Everything to go from key to production.

Guide

Quickstart Guide

Get your first API response back in under five minutes.

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Reference

Full API Reference

Every endpoint, parameter, and response field documented in detail.

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Tool

Postman Collection

Import ready-made requests for every Tongcheng Travel API endpoint.

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Code

SDKs & Code Samples

Python, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby snippets for every use case.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Still deciding? Here's what most teams ask first.

We collect only publicly accessible fare and listing data using automated tools, following publicly available web-data guidelines. We recommend reviewing your own use case with legal counsel, especially for redistribution.

Every request to /flights, /attractions, and /buses triggers a live pull — you're not reading from a stale cache. Bulk jobs complete within minutes depending on batch size.

Yes — the /miniprogram endpoint returns whether a given listing supports native in-WeChat booking and WeChat Pay, without needing to leave the app.

Yes — Tongcheng Travel has particularly deep coverage of China's lower-tier city markets, and listings include a city-tier classification field.

Our infrastructure retries automatically across a rotating proxy pool. You're only billed for successfully returned responses.

Yes, every account starts with a free sandbox key and sample credits so you can test all endpoints before committing to a plan.

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