# Usage guidelines

This section provides guidelines and general information on how to use the **Mews Booking Engine API**. For information about individual endpoints or operations, see [API Operations](operations).

> **Important:** The Mews Booking Engine API is designed to be consumed directly by front-end clients. It is unsuitable for continuous polling by a single server due to its built-in anti-scraping protection and such requests can fail. For server to server communication, please refer to the [Mews Connector API](https://mews-systems.gitbook.io/connector-api/).

* [Authentication](guidelines/authentication)
* [Requests](guidelines/requests)
* [Responses](guidelines/responses)
* [Environments](guidelines/environments)
* [Images](guidelines/images)
* [Supported currency codes](guidelines/supported-currency-codes)
* [Supported language codes](guidelines/supported-language-codes)
