| name | travel-hotel-scraping |
| description | Use when you need travel and hospitality data — hotels, vacation rentals, attractions, or car-sharing listings with their prices, ratings, reviews, availability, star levels, and amenities. Covers Booking.com, Trip.com/Ctrip, TripAdvisor, and Turo. Use for rate and price monitoring, competitive pricing analysis, availability tracking, and review/ranking tracking. Triggers on "scrape hotels", "hotel prices", "hotel rates", "travel data", "car rental", "hotel availability", "TripAdvisor rankings", "Booking.com scraper". |
| license | MIT |
Travel & Hotel Scraping
Getting prices, ratings, availability, and amenities off travel and hospitality sites — hotels, rentals, attractions, and car-sharing marketplaces. Typical jobs: rate/price monitoring, competitive pricing, availability tracking, and review/ranking tracking.
The reality: OTAs are anti-bot-heavy
Online travel agencies are among the hardest targets on the web. Booking.com fronts its pages with AWS WAF; TripAdvisor runs aggressive anti-bot defenses; Trip.com/Ctrip and Turo render most pricing client-side. Plain HTTP almost always gets a challenge page, so the common working path is a stealth browser (Camoufox) + residential proxy — see anti-bot-scraping for the bypass details.
The fields that matter across these sites are consistent: name, price (often per night), rating, review count, location, star level, and amenities — plus availability for given dates and guest counts.
Ready-made scrapers
Anti-bot maintenance on these targets is constant. Before building, check whether a maintained scraper already covers what you need. Each is billed pay-per-result (free tier included):
| Target | Scraper | From | Notes |
|---|
| Booking.com | Booking.com Hotels | $0.008/result | prices/ratings/amenities by destination + dates + guests |
| Trip.com / Ctrip | Trip.com / Ctrip Hotels | $0.02/result | nightly prices, ratings, availability |
| TripAdvisor | TripAdvisor | $0.008/result | hotels/restaurants/attractions, rankings, reviews |
| Turo | Turo | $0.008/result | car-rental marketplace, daily/weekly/monthly pricing, host info |
Run one
Each scraper runs from the command line and returns JSON rows. Example with the Booking.com scraper:
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~booking-hotel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"destination": "Lisbon",
"checkIn": "2026-08-01",
"checkOut": "2026-08-04",
"guests": 2,
"maxResults": 25
}'
Get a free token at console.apify.com. Exact input fields are on each actor's Store page — the snippet above is illustrative.
Build your own
If no maintained scraper fits, or you want to own the code:
web-scraping-playbook — the build-vs-buy decision and the cost-first technique ladder (HTTP → TLS spoof → stealth browser).anti-bot-scraping — concrete bypasses for the AWS WAF / DataDome / Turnstile defenses these OTAs use.apify-actor-builder — package your scraper as a deployable, monetizable Apify Actor.
Maintained by Thirdwatch. 70+ ready-made scrapers on the Apify Store.
