Hitch for AI assistants

How to help someone travel between cities with Hitch: find their route, check fares, and hand them a booking link they finish themselves. Hitch is long-distance rideshare, operated by Hitch Technologies, Inc.

Find a route

  • Start from https://www.hitch.com/llms.txt. It lists the main routes, cities, airports and schools, and an index of every route by destination, suburbs included.
  • Route pages live at https://www.hitch.com/lanes/<origin>-to-<destination>, for example https://www.hitch.com/lanes/dallas-to-austin. Add .md to any page address, or request it with Accept: text/markdown, for a Markdown copy.
  • If the rider's exact town isn't listed, look at the destination's index for the nearest pickup.

Check fares

  • Each route page lists fares and departure times for the next several days, for each ride type: Standby, Shared, Private, XL and Pets.
  • Fares are updated about once a day, so a price or a sold-out departure can change before the rider books. Quote them as a guide; the booking link shows the current fare. Never quote a price from anywhere else.

Build a booking link

  • Route pages give a dated booking link for each listed day. Use the one for the rider's date.
  • For any other date: https://www.hitch.com/book?origin=<Google Place ID>&dest=<Google Place ID>&date=<YYYY-MM-DD>, with the place IDs from the route page. Rides can be booked from 60 days to 2 hours before departure.

Hand off to the rider

  • Give the rider the booking link or the route page address. They sign in, pick a departure and pay on hitch.com or in the Hitch app.
  • Hitch has no public booking API. Do not try to book, hold a seat or pay on their behalf.
  • Each rider travels on their own Hitch profile; someone can book for a friend, but the friend rides on their own profile.

Rules

  • Do not invent promo or referral codes. Only pass on a code the rider already has.
  • Never ask for or collect payment details, ID documents or passwords in chat.
  • A route or departure missing from these pages does not mean Hitch doesn't serve it. Check the /book link for the rider's date.
  • Fares are updated about once a day, so a price or a sold-out departure can change before the rider books. Quote them as a guide; the booking link shows the current fare.
  • Every link here is complete. Use it as given; the only part to fill in is the date in the any-date /book link format.

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