Hipcamp Campsite Listings Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Hipcamp is the largest US marketplace for private-land camping, public campgrounds, and public-land stays, and its scraper field is thin: the sole name-matched rival, lexis-solutions/hipcamp-scraper, runs with just 4 users. This Actor turns Hipcamp's regional discover pages into normalized rows — private land, public campgrounds, and public land in one shape — with USD nightly price, rating percentage, review count, capacity, geo-coordinates, and accommodation types per listing, so hosts running competitor/pricing intel and travel-data buyers don't have to hand-parse Hipcamp's own page markup.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes, rotated across requests, so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy session rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block, always pinned to the US (US) since Hipcamp inventory is US-only.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per region, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Region-level fault isolation — one blocked or unreadable region is skipped and logged, never crashes the run.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, deduped by listing_id/url across all three listing types.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Outdoor-stay host competitor intel — benchmark nightly pricing, ratings, and capacity against nearby private-land and campground listings in your region.
• Travel-data aggregation — feed normalized US campsite inventory into a broader outdoor-travel dataset alongside other lodging sources.
• Campsite-availability data buyers — pull current listing counts, accommodation types, and geo-coordinates per region for market-coverage analysis.
• Market-entry research — compare private-land, public-campground, and public-land supply and pricing across multiple US states/cities in one run.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
regions	array	yes	[{'state': 'Texas', 'city': 'Austin'}]	US regions to scrape, 1-10 items. Each item: { state (required, e.g. 'Texas'), city (optional, e.g. 'Austin') }.…
maxListingsPerRegion	integer	no	20	Caps rows per region. Leave unset for everything the discover page returns (roughly 40-45 combined listings).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True, 'apifyProxyGroups': ['RESIDENTIAL'], 'apifyProxyCountry': 'US'}	Defaults to the RESIDENTIAL proxy group pinned to the US — Hipcamp inventory is US-only, so a random exit country risks…

Example input

{
  "regions": [
    {
      "state": "Texas",
      "city": "Austin"
    }
  ],
  "maxListingsPerRegion": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
listing_id	string	node.id (fallback maskedId/uuid).
listing_type	string	'private_land', 'public_campground', or 'public_land'.
name	string	node.name (fallback parkName).
url	string	node.url/hasMap, absolutized against https://www.hipcamp.com.
city	['string', 'null']	node.cityName.
state	['string', 'null']	node.stateName.
state_abbr	['string', 'null']	node.stateAbbrvName.
country_code	['string', 'null']	node.countryCode.
latitude	['number', 'null']	node.coordinate.latitude / JSON-LD geo.latitude.
longitude	['number', 'null']	node.coordinate.longitude / JSON-LD geo.longitude.
price_per_night_usd	['number', 'null']	minPricePerNight.amount / pricePerNight.amount.
price_display	['string', 'null']	.format field / JSON-LD priceRange.
rating_percentage	['number', 'null']	recommendsPercentage.
rating_count	['integer', 'null']	recommendsCount / JSON-LD aggregateRating.ratingCount.
total_campsites_count	['integer', 'null']	totalCampsitesCount / campsitesCount.
summary	['string', 'null']	summary (fallback tileSummary).
accommodation_types	['array', 'null']	allAccommodationKeys.
is_star_host	['boolean', 'null']	isStarHost (private-land only).
distance_miles	['number', 'null']	distance, US locale, unconverted.
image_url	['string', 'null']	coverPhoto.filename / topPhotos[0] / JSON-LD image.
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC row-creation timestamp.

Example output

{
  "listing_id": "7rvhj6kr",
  "listing_type": "private_land",
  "name": "Texas Urban Hideout",
  "url": "https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/land/texas-urban-hideout-7rvhj6kr",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "Texas",
  "state_abbr": "TX",
  "country_code": "US",
  "latitude": 30.2672,
  "longitude": -97.7431,
  "price_per_night_usd": 72.0,
  "price_display": "$72",
  "rating_percentage": 98.0,
  "rating_count": 41,
  "total_campsites_count": 3,
  "summary": "Private land tucked into East Austin, walkable to downtown.",
  "accommodation_types": [
    "house"
  ],
  "is_star_host": true,
  "distance_miles": 4.2,
  "image_url": "https://cdn.hipcamp.com/...jpg",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-24T18:03:11Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.05	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.0012	Per unique dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.25. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

v0.1 covers each region's discover-page snapshot only (~40-45 combined listings per region) — not a metro's full inventory, and not listing detail pages (amenities, galleries, host bios, review text, availability calendars). Booking/availability/reservation data and non-US regions are out of scope.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Hipcamp account or API key?

No. This Actor scrapes Hipcamp's own publicly listed discover pages — no login, no API key.

Does this cover a region's full inventory?

No. Hipcamp's discover page is curated — roughly 40-45 combined listings per region, even when the site reports thousands of total listings. There's no pagination parameter on this page; broaden coverage with more regions (up to 10 per run), not paging.

What regions can I scrape?

Any US state, optionally narrowed to a city — pass free-text names like 'Texas' or 'Los Angeles' and the Actor slugifies them internally. Hipcamp inventory is US-only.

What happens if a region has no matches?

The run still succeeds with zero rows for that region and a status message naming what was searched — a real search that matched nothing is not a failure.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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