WhipTrip

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Most travel search engines prompt you for too much, like travel dates and specific destinations. For the single college traveler or the millennial, the opportunities to travel are limited mostly by budget constraints. We designed WhipTrip to quickly determine some of the best possible trips within any budget, regardless of time or destination.

Technologies Used

We used node.js for the backend and basic Javascript/jQuery for the frontend. We also used the Amadeus APIs for travel itineraries, the Foursquare API for things to do, and the ____ API for image info.

Combining Flights and Hotels

In order to achieve a set of trips within a budget, one must account fo the combination of flights and hotel. There is potential for a cheap flight combined with an expensive hotel, an expensive flight combined with a cheap hotel, or any range in between. Thus, we used the Amadeus APIs to quickly generate broad searches for both flights and hotels, and used a custom algorithm to combine them.

What's next for WhipTrip

We'd like to connect to affiliate links with the major travel providers and provide this service for more than just trip ideas -- we'd like to have the ability to book straight through WhipTrip. Also, we would like to tie in optional car rental and public transit costs, as well as cost of living based on the budgetyourtravel.com API.

Built With

• css3
• html5
• javascript
• node.js