API Endpoints

Requirements API can returns information about travel restrictions using HTTP requests. The API follows Resource Oriented Design practices and follows JSON specifications.

Resources

The following requests as are available:

• Trips returns travel restrictions for a specified Trips as described using a set of Segment.

• Countries Information returns travel restrictions and procedures imposed by select countries or countries.

• Regions Information returns travel restrictions and procedures imposed by select regions or regions.

• Restrictions returns all or specific travel restriction.

• Procedures returns all or specific travel procedures.

Relationship

Each country has a number of administrative sub divisions which are represented by the Region resource in our API. Just like countries, a Region can have a series of Restrictions and Procedures bound to that specific region.

Where does the information come from?

Data is aggregated from various trusted sources. Most of the information comes directly from Government Website, Travel Organizations & Services.

Source Examples:

• Canadian Government
• Australia Home Affairs
• Singapore Ministry of Health
• Coronavirus and Travel in the United States
• UK Government
• CDC

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Important

Response payloads always include details about the source and freshness of information.

How often is information updated

Data available via the API is synchronized with sherpa's internal database every hour. It is not recommended to cache the data for longer than an hour.

Language support

The content is localized to several languages.

Open API

Our API specification complies with the Open API standard, identified by IATA as the best practice for the airline industry.