# HolidayCheck Hotel Reviews & Ratings Scraper (`gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Extract German-language hotel reviews, ratings and profiles from HolidayCheck. 900,000+ hotels worldwide with guest reviews, 1-10 ratings, review counts and addresses.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GTForge Data](https://apify.com/gtforgedata) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 hotel scrapeds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## HolidayCheck Hotel Reviews & Ratings Scraper

Extract **German-language hotel reviews and ratings** from
[HolidayCheck](https://www.holidaycheck.de) — the DACH region's largest hotel review platform,
covering **900,000+ hotels worldwide**.

Built for hotel reputation management, hospitality benchmarking, travel analytics and market
research teams who need structured German-market review data.

### What you get

Per hotel:

| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Profile | name, HolidayCheck id, full postal address, region, country, telephone |
| Aggregate rating | native **1–10** score **and** a 0–5 normalisation for cross-source comparison |
| Review count | the hotel's total review count, so you know what a sample represents |
| Reviews | headline, full review text, author, **ISO-8601 publish date**, per-review 1–10 rating |
| Amenities | amenity features as published |

### Why the German market

HolidayCheck is where German, Austrian and Swiss travellers actually write hotel reviews. If you
are benchmarking a DACH property, or tracking a portfolio's reputation in German, this is the
source that matters — and it is not covered by the English-language review platforms.

### Use cases

- **Hotel reputation monitoring** — track score and new German-language reviews over time
- **Competitive benchmarking** — compare a property against its local set
- **Portfolio tracking** — sweep every hotel in a region or chain
- **Market research** — 900,000+ hotels with ratings, review volume and location
- **Text analytics** — clean German review text for sentiment and topic work

### Input

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `venueUrls` | Hotel or review page URLs; a bare hotel UUID also works |
| `discoverAll` | Ignore the list and enumerate hotels from the sitemaps |
| `maxVenues` | Bound the run (default 100) |
| `includeReviews` | Off = profiles + aggregate ratings only, at lower cost |
| `outputMode` | `venue` (nested), `review` (flat rows), or `both` |

```json
{
  "venueUrls": [
    "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112"
  ],
  "includeReviews": true,
  "outputMode": "venue"
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "source": "holidaycheck",
  "venueId": "4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112",
  "name": "Entdeckerhotel Panorama",
  "address": {
    "street": "Sonnenstr. 11",
    "city": "Chienes / Kiens",
    "region": "Südtirol",
    "country": "Italien"
  },
  "aggregate": {
    "rating": { "native": 10, "nativeScale": 10, "normalised": 5 },
    "count": 58
  },
  "reviews": [
    {
      "title": "Ein gelungener Familienurlaub mit viel Komfort und Genuss.",
      "text": "Das Hotel ist einfach wundervoll für einen Urlaub in dem die Eltern...",
      "rating": { "native": 10, "nativeScale": 10, "normalised": 5 },
      "author": { "name": "Martina" },
      "publishedAt": "2025-12-25T21:29:22.000Z",
      "language": "de"
    }
  ],
  "reviewsTruncated": true,
  "totalReviewCount": 58
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event — you pay for what you extract, no monthly rental:

| Event | When |
|---|---|
| `actor-start` | Once per run, per GB of memory |
| `venue-scraped` | Per hotel profile returned |
| `review-scraped` | Per individual review returned |

Turning `includeReviews` off charges only `venue-scraped`.

### An honest note on review coverage

HolidayCheck publishes each hotel's **most recent reviews** on the page, typically around ten,
alongside the hotel's total review count. This actor returns those, and sets
`reviewsTruncated: true` with the real `totalReviewCount` whenever a hotel has more than were
served.

For reputation monitoring — where recent reviews are the signal — that is the whole job. If you
need complete historical archives of every review ever written, this actor is not that tool, and
says so here rather than quietly handing you a partial set.

Requests are rate-limited to one per 700 ms per host. Discovery uses HolidayCheck's own published
sitemaps rather than guessed URLs, and the actor reads only paths the site's robots.txt permits.

### Support

Open an issue on the actor page. Bug reports with the hotel URL attached get fixed fastest.

# Actor input Schema

## `venueUrls` (type: `array`):

HolidayCheck hotel or review pages, e.g. https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112. A bare hotel UUID also works. Leave empty and enable 'Scrape all hotels' to sweep the catalogue.

## `discoverAll` (type: `boolean`):

Ignore the URL list and enumerate hotels from HolidayCheck's sitemaps (900,000+). Always pair with 'Max hotels'.

## `maxVenues` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on hotels processed in one run.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Include individual guest reviews. Turn off for a cheaper run returning only hotel profiles and aggregate ratings.

## `outputMode` (type: `string`):

'venue' = one row per hotel with reviews nested. 'review' = one flat row per review. 'both' = hotel row followed by its review rows.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel hotel fetches. Requests are additionally rate-limited per host to stay polite.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Extra politeness delay. The actor enforces its own 700ms minimum for this source regardless of this value.

## `minReviewCount` (type: `integer`):

Skip hotels with fewer than this many reviews. Catalogue sweeps hit a long tail of listings with no reviews at all — skipped hotels are NOT charged. Leave at 0 to return everything.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "venueUrls": [
    "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112"
  ],
  "discoverAll": false,
  "maxVenues": 100,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "outputMode": "venue",
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "requestDelayMs": 700,
  "minReviewCount": 0
}
```

# 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 = {
    "venueUrls": [
        "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-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 = { "venueUrls": ["https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "venueUrls": [
    "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-entdeckerhotel-panorama/4b53f727-a5c5-36bb-8fc1-63c039565112"
  ]
}' |
apify call gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gtforgedata/holidaycheck-hotel-reviews-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/V9VxvwzFGGeFJYjcY/builds/Sgn9m1BgEyBWQwVMW/openapi.json