Travel and hotels · kayak.com
Does KAYAK allow AI agents?
Source as of
KAYAK's own rules for AI agents and automation.
Source: kayak.com · Terms: 2026-08-17
Bans using 'automated tools on our Site without our written permission'.
- Our testing
- 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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Use of automated tools, scraping, harvesting, deep-linking, or training AI on the Site requires KAYAK's written permission
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Users may not bypass security features, access restrictions, or robot exclusion headers
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Prohibits false, fraudulent, or speculative reservations and reservations in anticipation of demand
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KAYAK may suspend or end access at any time for breaking these rules
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Site is licensed for the user's own travel planning only
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KAYAK states it does not provide, own, or control the travel products; booking and payment are handled by the Travel Provider
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Prohibits using the Site to develop competing products
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robots.txt states it was generated Tue Oct 20 01:00:00 EDT 2026
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User-agent: BUbiNG Disallow: / -
User-agent: proximic Disallow: / User-agent: A6-Indexer/1.0 Disallow: / -
Disallow: /bookings Disallow: /labs Disallow: /carreservation Disallow: /hotelreservation Disallow: /flightreservation -
Disallow: /hotels/ Disallow: /flights/ Disallow: /cars/ Disallow: /h/ Disallow: /s/ Disallow: /k/
Sources
- KAYAK Terms of Use 2026-08-17
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