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Does Expedia allow AI agents?
Not without permission. Expedia's terms forbid automated access (expedia.com, terms dated 2026-08-10).
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Expedia's own rules for AI agents and automation.
Source: expedia.com · Terms: 2026-08-10
Section 2 of the Terms of Service bars accessing, monitoring or copying content with any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process, bars violating robot exclusion headers or bypassing measures that limit access, and limits use to personal and non-commercial purposes.
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- Report-only: we cite public reports and never test agents here
What the site's own pages say
Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.
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Terms (Section 2) bar accessing, monitoring or copying content with robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means
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Terms bar violating robot exclusion headers or bypassing measures that limit access
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Users agree to use the Service only for personal and non-commercial purposes
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Expedia may, acting reasonably, deny anyone access to the Service for any valid reason
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Terms of Service last revised 08-10-2026
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Expedia's robots.txt (a crawler rule, not a legal ban): has an "AI Search" group that allows OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot, with a few paths disallowed
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Expedia's robots.txt (a crawler rule, not a legal ban): for general bots (user-agent: *), disallows checkout paths
Sources
- Expedia Terms of Service 2026-08-10
- Expedia robots.txt source undated, checked 2026-10-27
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