ReserveAmerica.com

[ctrl-brk]

Add support for reserveamerica.com

[juftin]

I've had my eye on reserveamerica.com for some time now. The issue with implementing it as a camply provider is they don't have a public facing RESTful API powering their site.

All current camply providers, like recreation.gov, use a RESTful API. So a campground like Cold Springs - Arapaho Roosevelt NF (CO)
has its own API endpoint that returns JSON: GET https://www.recreation.gov/api/media/public/asset/231856. Camply works by reverse engineering these APIs so we can search for campgrounds and ask about their availability.

reserveamaerica.com is a bit more high tech than most providers and doesn't surface an API and instead handles all of this on the backend to render HTML for the front end.

So a provider like ReserveAmerica could work with camply but it would require that camply scrapes the sites's HTML to get data instead of pinging their API. I'm not saying I won't ever implement this but it would require a bunch of work and a new approach for the tool.

[mr1716]

There is an older API for Reserve America: Third Party API

But it doesn’t show availability information and I think is no longer supported/updated. Plus don’t think it provides what is desired.

[mr1716]

@juftin there looks to be an API: https://api.reserveamerica.com/ and https://chub.api.reserveamerica.com/, but unsure its use or if available