# Hotel Price Monitoring for a Five-Hotel Comp Set

**Use case:** 

Five Barcelona competitors by name, a week of check-in dates starting two weeks out, one night each. Names are matched against the listing Google returns and a stranger is never billed; the status row says not_found instead. Run it every morning and each property's curve moves in step with its neighbours. Cost: 35 rate rows at $0.004 = at most $0.14 a run.

## Input

```json
{
  "hotels": [],
  "hotelNames": [
    "Hotel Arts Barcelona",
    "W Barcelona",
    "Mandarin Oriental Barcelona",
    "Majestic Hotel & Spa Barcelona",
    "El Palace Barcelona"
  ],
  "checkIn": "14 days",
  "days": 7,
  "nights": 1,
  "adults": 2,
  "childrenAges": [],
  "currency": "EUR",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "es",
  "maxPrice": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "sessions": 4,
  "perIp": 0.5
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "hotel_name": {
    "label": "Property",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "check_in": {
    "label": "Check-in",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "check_out": {
    "label": "Check-out",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "currency": {
    "label": "Currency",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "price": {
    "label": "Lowest nightly",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "total": {
    "label": "Stay total",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "Cheapest source",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "official": {
    "label": "Official site?",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "official_price": {
    "label": "Official nightly",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "free_cancellation": {
    "label": "Free cancellation",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "n_sources": {
    "label": "Sources",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "rank_in_window": {
    "label": "Rank",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "cheapest_in_window": {
    "label": "Cheapest date",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "source_url": {
    "label": "Book",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hotel Price Tracker — Google Hotels Price History & Alerts](https://apify.com/kestrel/hotel-price-tracker.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/kestrel/hotel-price-tracker.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/hotel-price-tracker.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`).