# Booking.com API Alternative: Top 10 Rated in New York

**Use case:** 

The smallest useful run: ten best-reviewed properties in New York for a weekend three weeks out, one request. POST the same input to run-sync-get-dataset-items with your token and the rows come back as JSON in the same call - the Booking.com prices API that Booking does not publish, for a script or an agent that needs one answer. Cost: 10 hotel rows at $0.004 = at most $0.04 a run.

## Input

```json
{
  "locationQueries": [
    "New York"
  ],
  "maxHotelsPerQuery": 10,
  "startUrls": [],
  "hotelNames": [],
  "hotelIds": [],
  "checkIn": "3 weeks",
  "nights": 2,
  "adults": 2,
  "childrenAges": [],
  "rooms": 1,
  "currency": "USD",
  "sortBy": "review_score",
  "minStars": 0,
  "maxPrice": 0,
  "includeRooms": false,
  "locale": "en-US",
  "sessions": 4,
  "perIp": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "type": {
    "label": "Row type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "name": {
    "label": "Property name",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "stars": {
    "label": "Stars",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "review_score": {
    "label": "Review score",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "price_nightly": {
    "label": "Nightly rate",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "price_total": {
    "label": "Stay total",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "currency": {
    "label": "Currency",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "taxes_included": {
    "label": "Taxes included",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "free_cancellation": {
    "label": "Free cancellation",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "breakfast_included": {
    "label": "Breakfast included",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "room_name": {
    "label": "Cheapest room",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "sold_out": {
    "label": "Sold out",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "city": {
    "label": "City",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "check_in": {
    "label": "Check-in",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "nights": {
    "label": "Nights",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Property URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "hotel_id": {
    "label": "Hotel id",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Booking.com Scraper — Hotel Prices & Availability by Date](https://apify.com/kestrel/booking-prices-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/kestrel/booking-prices-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/kestrel/booking-prices-scraper.md

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`).