Expedia Hotel Reviews Scraper

Extract structured Expedia hotel reviews, ratings, traveler details, dates, sentiment labels, photos, and management responses with a browserless Apify Actor. Give it one Expedia Hotel-Information URL, several hotel URLs, or a hotel ID and receive clean records in an Apify dataset.

Public example tasks

Try the ready-to-run examples:

• Test Expedia hotel reviews — a quick sanity check with a small result set.
• Compare recent Expedia hotel reviews — collect reviews from multiple hotels for comparison.
• Reviews for a specific Expedia hotel — collect reviews for one property.
• Analyze Expedia hotel ratings — inspect ratings, sentiments, and traveler details.

Highlights

• Browserless GraphQL requests; no browser session is required.
• One hotel, multiple hotels, or hotel-ID input.
• Pagination, review ordering, retries, proxy support, and optional raw diagnostics.
• Dataset records are normalized for exports, dashboards, and downstream analysis.

How to use

The smallest useful input is an Expedia hotel URL:

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.expedia.com/London-Hotels-London-Heathrow-Marriott-Hotel.h438504.Hotel-Information",
  "results_wanted": 20,
  "review_sort": "most_recent"
}

For several properties, use startUrls. You can also provide hotelId directly; it takes precedence over the ID in a URL.

Input

Field	Description
startUrl	One Expedia Hotel-Information URL.
startUrls	One or more Expedia hotel URLs.
hotelId	Numeric Expedia hotel ID.
results_wanted	Maximum review records to save; default 20.
max_pages	Maximum GraphQL pages per hotel; default 8.
review_sort	none, most_relevant, most_recent, highest_rating, or lowest_rating. Expedia may not expose every order for every property.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy configuration. Residential proxies are recommended for Expedia.
proxyUrl	Optional custom HTTP proxy URL for a single run.
requestHeaders	Optional current browser headers, including an updated client-info value if needed.
cookie	Optional current browser Cookie header. Cookies expire and should be supplied at runtime.
graphqlRequest	Optional GraphQL request body copied from DevTools if Expedia changes its query schema.
pageSize	Reviews requested per GraphQL page; default 20, maximum 100.
maxRetries	Retries per page; default 3.
saveRawResponses	Save successful GraphQL pages to the key-value store.
includeRawReview	Include Expedia's raw review object in each item.
includeDebugFields	Include diagnostic fields in each item.
includeMetaRecords	Add one summary record per hotel.

The actor also accepts the original MVP names maxReviews, maxPages, sortBy, useApifyProxy, proxyGroups, and proxyCountryCode for backward compatibility.

Output

By default, one dataset item is emitted per review. Depending on Expedia's response, a record can include:

hotel_id, hotel_name, review_id, rating, title, review_text, published_date, stay_date, traveler fields, language, helpful votes, sentiment and theme labels, guest photos, management response fields, source URLs, and scraped_at. Missing values are omitted.

Summary records and raw response diagnostics are optional and do not create additional review charges. Raw pages are saved as RAW-{hotelId}-{page} in the key-value store.

Proxy and reliability

The default input uses Apify's residential proxy configuration. You can set your own rotating gateway in the Actor's environment variables:

RESIDENTIAL_PROXY_URL=http://username:password@proxy.example.com:1234

The environment variable is used when the proxyUrl input is empty. A per-run proxyUrl takes precedence over the environment variable, and both take precedence over Apify's built-in proxy configuration. Keep this value secret; it is never logged by the actor.

HTTP 429 responses, server errors, timeouts, and transient GraphQL errors are retried with exponential backoff and a new proxy session. Expedia can still throttle or challenge requests, so availability depends on the property, traffic, and proxy quality. If Expedia changes the request schema, provide a fresh DevTools request body in graphqlRequest.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The current rate is $1.99 per 1,000 reviews on the free tier, with lower rates for higher Apify subscription tiers. A small actor-start charge and the Apify minimum charge also apply. Only saved review records are billed as review events.