# Booking.com Scraper: Hotel Prices, No Login (`bibian/booking-hotels-scraper`) Actor

Extract hotel listings from Booking.com: price, availability, rating and reviews.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/booking-hotels-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vivien MORVAN](https://apify.com/bibian) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 hotel listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Booking.com Scraper: Hotel Prices & Reviews

Scrape [Booking.com](https://www.booking.com) hotel listings for any destination: price per night, star rating, review score and count, distance from the centre and preferred badges — the same data its own search results page shows, with no login and no captcha-solving.

### What you can do with it

- **Compare prices across destinations**: run several cities at once and rank hotels by price per night.
- **Track rate changes**: run it daily for the same destination and dates to see prices move.
- **Shortlist by reputation**: filter on review score, review count and star rating before opening a single listing.
- **Feed a travel comparison site or alert**: Booking.com has no public export for third parties; this Actor reads the same listings its own search page shows.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Destinations | One or more city or place names, exactly as typed into Booking.com's own search box (for example `Paris` or `New York`). Defaults to five major cities worldwide. |
| Check-in, days from today | How many days from now the stay starts (default 30; a date too close to today has little availability left). |
| Length of stay (nights) | Number of nights for the search (default 2). |
| Adults | Number of adult guests for the search (default 2). |
| Maximum number of hotels | The run stops once this many hotels are saved, across all destinations combined (default 50). |

### Output

One record per hotel:

```json
{
  "id": "fr/virgina",
  "url": "https://www.booking.com/hotel/fr/virgina.html",
  "title": "Virgina",
  "stars": 3,
  "address": "14th arr., Paris",
  "distanceFromCentre": "4 km from downtown",
  "reviewScore": 8.6,
  "reviewWord": "Excellent",
  "reviewCount": 2602,
  "price": 195,
  "currencySymbol": "€",
  "priceNote": "Includes taxes and fees",
  "isPreferred": false,
  "isGuestFavourite": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://cf.bstatic.com/xdata/images/hotel/square240/587081003.jpg",
  "searchDestination": "Paris"
}
```

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

### Why this one

- **Covers several destinations in one run.** Pass a list of cities and get a single combined dataset instead of running one Actor per city.
- **No login, no captcha-solving.** Booking.com's bot defenses are handled with a real, stealth browser behind residential IPs; nothing about the site's defenses is bypassed by a fake account or solved challenge.
- **Review score, word and count in one field each**, parsed straight from the same rating badge shown on the search page, not re-derived or estimated.

### Good to know

- `price` is the total shown on the search card for the chosen stay and number of adults, in the currency Booking.com itself displays for that search; it is not a nightly average.
- `priceNote` carries the card's own wording about taxes and fees (for example "Includes taxes and fees"); read it before comparing prices across hotels, since not every listing includes them the same way.
- Booking.com protects its pages with a JavaScript challenge: this Actor is slower and costs more per result than a simple HTML scraper, because every search needs a full residential-IP browser session, not just a plain HTTP request.
- A destination with little availability for the chosen dates may return fewer than 25 hotels; try a later check-in date or a bigger city.

### FAQ

**Can I search a specific neighbourhood or a single hotel?**\
Use the same text you would type into Booking.com's own search box as a destination — it accepts neighbourhoods and landmarks, not just city names.

**Why is it more expensive than most hotel scrapers?**\
Booking.com requires a full browser session behind a residential IP for every search; this costs more per request than a typical site that works with a plain HTTP request.

**Does it include private-room or apartment listings?**\
Yes, whatever Booking.com's own search for that destination and dates returns is included; no personal host or guest data is collected, only the listing's own public price and rating.

# Actor input Schema

## `destinations` (type: `array`):

One or more city or place names, exactly as you would type them into Booking.com's own search box, for example "Paris" or "New York".

## `checkinDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days from now the stay starts. A date too close to today has little availability left.

## `nights` (type: `integer`):

Number of nights for the search.

## `adults` (type: `integer`):

Number of adult guests for the search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

The run stops once this many hotels are saved, across all destinations combined.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "destinations": [
    "Paris",
    "London",
    "New York",
    "Rome",
    "Barcelona"
  ],
  "checkinDays": 30,
  "nights": 2,
  "adults": 2,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "destinations": [
        "Paris",
        "London",
        "New York",
        "Rome",
        "Barcelona"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/booking-hotels-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "destinations": [
        "Paris",
        "London",
        "New York",
        "Rome",
        "Barcelona",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/booking-hotels-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "destinations": [
    "Paris",
    "London",
    "New York",
    "Rome",
    "Barcelona"
  ]
}' |
apify call bibian/booking-hotels-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/booking-hotels-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/0h9H7kGojo9QBbcnX/builds/Z6mEd521mcivTzuZS/openapi.json