Hostelz Hostel Listings Scraper

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan runs can return at most 5 dataset records per run from this Actor, even if you request more.

Scrape public Hostelz.com hostel listings by city or URL and export structured hostel data for travel research, accommodation discovery, price comparison, and hostel market analysis.

The default Store smoke run is intentionally bounded to one Bangkok search page and one listing with detail enrichment disabled. Increase maxResults or maxPages, or enable includeDetails, for larger collection jobs.

Extracted fields

Each dataset record can include the hostel name, canonical URL, country, city, neighborhood, address, latitude, longitude, rating, review count, price text, currency, description, amenities, image URL, source URL, timestamp, and extraction warnings.

Use locations such as Thailand/Bangkok, or supply startUrls for a Hostelz city page or hostel detail URL. Set includeDetails to visit public detail pages for addresses, coordinates, descriptions, images, and structured data. The Actor supports bounded pagination, deduplication, session cookies, and optional Apify Proxy.

Input examples

City search:

{"locations":["Thailand/Bangkok"],"maxResults":25,"maxPages":3,"includeDetails":true}

Direct detail page:

{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.hostelz.com/hostel/531360-Bedd-Hostel"}],"maxResults":1,"includeDetails":true}

Pricing and limits

Pay per event pricing is $0.003 per schema-valid hostel record plus a $0.00005 run-start event. maxResults accepts 1–500 and maxPages accepts 1–20. A one-result run costs at most $0.00305 in Actor events. Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is charged.

Reliability and compliance

Hostelz may return a Cloudflare challenge. The Actor reports a truthful BLOCKED diagnostic, writes no fabricated records, and charges no result events when public access is denied. It does not bypass CAPTCHA, authentication, paywalls, or other access controls. Use only public pages and comply with Hostelz.com terms and applicable law.

Example input

{
  "locations": ["Thailand/Bangkok"],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "countryCode": "TH" }
}

Use only public pages and comply with Hostelz.com terms and applicable law.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.003	Hostel listing scraped — Charged for each schema-valid public Hostelz listing written to the default dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.