Airbnb Login Script through the command line using PHP

Question

Is there a way to programmatically login to Airbnb with email/password through a CLI PHP script? and get a response back?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you're looking to remotely log in to Airbnb and return information, you can use cURL to post data to Airbnb and return the results.

Examples on how to post form data can be found all over the web, however, a very reputable tutorial can be found here. Essentially, you want to cURL the login page, and include the login information with POST.

<?php
// A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.airbnb.com/login");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
            "email=" . $email . "&password=" . $password);

// in real life you should use something like:
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
//          http_build_query(array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password)));

// receive server response ...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

// further processing ....
if ($server_output == "OK") { ... } else { ... }
?>

Make sure you check out this answer on SO, as well as the tutorials here.

Answer 2

Yes, there is. Airbnb's API isn't open to the general public, but if you sniff the traffic from your phone, you can see what requests are being sent to which endpoints. I experimented a little bit with their API and it follows as such for logging in

<?php
class AirBnB {    
// Define the properties
public $currency = 'USD';
public $language = 'en';
public $country = 'us';
public $network = 'AT&T';
public $apiKey = '915pw2pnf4h1aiguhph5gc5b2';
public $adId = '911EBF1C-7C1D-46D5-A925-2F49ED064C92';
public $deviceId = 'a382581f36f1635a78f3d688bf0f99d85ec7e21f';

public function SendRequest($endpoint, $token, $post, $data, $cookies) {
    $headers = array(
                'Host: api.airbnb.com',
                'Accept: application/json',
                'Accept-Language: en-us',
                'Connection: keep-alive',
                'Content-Type: application/json',
                'Proxy-Connection: keep-alive',
                'X-Airbnb-Carrier-Country: '.$this->country,
                'X-Airbnb-Currency: '.$this->currency,
                'X-Airbnb-Locale: '.$this->language,
                'X-Airbnb-Carrier-Name: '.$this->network,
                'X-Airbnb-Network-Type: wifi',
                'X-Airbnb-API-Key: '.$this->apiKey,
                'X-Airbnb-Device-ID: '.$this->deviceId,
                'X-Airbnb-Advertising-ID: '.$this->adId,
                );

    // Add the new custom headers
    if($token) {
        $header = 'X-Airbnb-OAuth-Token: '.$token;
        array_push($headers, $header);
    }

    // Add the query string
    if(!$post && is_array($data)) {
        $endpoint .= '?'.http_build_query($data);
    }

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.airbnb.com/'.$endpoint);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Airbnb/15.50 iPhone/9.2 Type/Phone');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

    if($post) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
    }

    if($cookies) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt');            
    } else {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
    }

    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $http = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);    

    return array(
                'http' => $http,
                'response' => $response
                );
}

public function Authorize($username, $password) {
    $data = array(
                'username' => $username,
                'password' => $password,
                'prevent_account_creation' => TRUE,
                );
    $data = $this->SendRequest('v1/authorize', FALSE, TRUE, $data, FALSE);

    if($data['http'] == 200) {
        $json = @json_decode($data['response'], TRUE);
        return $json['access_token'];
    } else {
        return FALSE;
    }
}
}

// Call a new instance of AirBnB
$airbnb = new AirBnB;

// Get the OAuth token
$token = $airbnb->Authorize('my@email.com', 'password');
?>

You can find out more about their API here.