Google Hotels Scraper - Multi-Query OTA Price Comparison
Pricing
from $22.50 / 1,000 hotel results
Search multiple hotel queries at once and compare prices across 30+ OTAs. Collect 5 data sections per hotel — Overview, Prices, Reviews, Photos, About — all from Google Hotels.
All notable changes to this project should be documented in this file.
q/hl/gl/currency
but not checkin/checkout/adults, so the returned-context gate in
publishHotels rejected every priced rescue row ("missing visible context")
and the rescue reported "delivered no rows" over data it had already
recovered. Measured 2026-08-25 on 1.8.4: "Marina Bay Sands Singapore"
(sg/SGD) failed in 282 s with the rescue's one priced row discarded. Rows now
carry the canonical search URL built from the exact context the rescue rpc
requested, which the gate validates. Browser-path rows are unaffected."quoted hotel" query
recovered over HTTP would charge for area alternatives the browser path
rejects.Overview, OTA Prices). The dataset schema previously
declared fields but no views, so results rendered as raw JSON instead of a
table — and Apify refuses to publish a task for an Actor with no view, which
blocked the Store landing page entirely.Hotel detail scraping navigates to each hotel's own detail URL instead of
clicking the card at a given index and navigating back. The click-and-return
approach coupled every hotel to the results list surviving intact, so a single
failed click or back-navigation stranded the page and every later hotel logged
Card index N out of range (0 links). Google also recycles cards out of the
DOM while scrolling, so the click target went missing on healthy runs too.
Hotel detail scraping no longer stops after the first hotel. When the run
could not get back to the search results list, every later hotel resolved
against an empty list and logged Card index N out of range (0 links), so a
20-hotel query attempted exactly one detail page. Recovery now retries the
saved search URL with a real navigation wait and dismisses a re-shown consent
dialog; when recovery genuinely fails the detail loop stops and records a
partial reason instead of burning the remaining runtime.
OTA offer rows are given a 15s hydration budget instead of 3s. Google Hotels
renders the price panel well after domcontentloaded, and residential proxies
add several seconds more, so the old budget expired before any offer appeared.
OTA offers are no longer discarded because their booking link is a Google
redirect. Google wraps every offer's deep link, so the terminal-URL rule
rejected 100% of offers — throwing away the provider and price alongside the
link, which is the price comparison this Actor exists to deliver. Offers are
kept and the link is labelled bookingUrlStatus: "google_redirect". Embedded
redirect targets are still never unwrapped, and malformed, credentialed, or
non-HTTP links are still rejected.
Deduplication no longer collapses an entire batch into one row when Google
serves entity-form URLs. Those URLs carry the hotel identity in the path
(/entity/{id}/prices) and set the same qs=OAA stub on every card, so
reading qs gave all 20 hotels one identity and 19 were dropped before output
and charging. Identity now reads the entity id first and ignores qs stubs
shorter than a real token. This hit whole markets: the hotels in Seoul
smoke run delivered 1 of 20 hotels before the fix.
Search cards fall back to the hotel name link when the "View prices" anchor is missing. That URL is both the detail-scrape target and the row's dedupe identity, so an absent anchor previously gave every card in the batch the same empty identity and collapsed 20 results into 1.
A batch whose rows mostly collapse during deduplication now logs a warning with sample URLs instead of only incrementing a counter in the run summary.
otaPriceStatus: "missing", and
the run logs how many were withheld. Previously a broken detail scrape billed
the buyer in full for the OTA price comparison it silently dropped.otaPriceStatus output field (complete | missing) on every row.bookingUrlStatus field (direct | google_redirect) on every OTA offer.withheldForMissingOtaPrices in the publish result and run summary.