🛫 Hopper Travel Research Scraper

🚀 Export Hopper's travel research, news, and press releases in seconds. Pull the full archive of price studies, holiday outlooks, and sale announcements from Hopper Media Center as clean JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Hopper Media Center is the public face of Hopper's travel data team, where Lead Economist Hayley Berg and colleagues publish flight price studies, holiday travel outlooks, sale announcements, and consumer travel index reports. This Actor walks the three top sections (research, press releases, and editorial articles) and returns every published document with structured metadata plus the full body text and HTML, suitable for downstream analytics, alerting, or LLM ingestion.

The scraper hits the Next.js data endpoints behind media.hopper.com directly, so no headless browser is needed and runs finish in under a minute for the full 341-document catalog. Filter by content type or post date when you only want the latest research, narrow your window to a single quarter, or pull the entire archive in one shot. Every record includes hero image, author bio, embedded chart URLs, and ready-to-render HTML alongside plain text.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Travel agencies and OTA analysts	Track Hopper's published price predictions and seasonal outlooks
Travel deal alert platforms	Mirror Hopper's flash-sale announcements into your alert pipeline
Travel journalists and bloggers	Source quote-ready stats and charts from Hopper's economist team
Market researchers	Build a longitudinal corpus of travel-industry trend reports

📋 What the Hopper Travel Research Scraper does

• 🔍 Walks every section. Pulls all 341 documents from /research, /news, and /articles in one run.
• 📅 Filters by post date. Use minDate and maxDate (YYYY-MM-DD) to narrow to a specific season or release window.
• 🗂️ Selects content types. Choose any combination of research reports, press releases, and editorial articles.
• 🖼️ Captures hero and embedded media. Hero image, author avatar, and every chart or asset embedded in the body.
• 📝 Returns both plain text and HTML. Body is delivered as readable Markdown-friendly text and as clean HTML for downstream rendering.
• 👤 Includes author metadata. Name, bio, and avatar for the byline (when present).

Each record carries 15 fields covering the document's identity, source URL, author, publication date, hero and embedded imagery, full body in two formats, and run metadata. Newest posts are returned first.

💡 Why it matters: Hopper's research team publishes proprietary travel demand and price data months before it lands in industry trade press. Pulling the source feed directly gives analysts and travel platforms a head start.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, authorAvatar, authorBio, bodyHtml, bodyText, excerpt, imageUrl, images, postDate, scrapedAt, slug, title, type, url. All 14 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Hopper Media Center is updated whenever the data team releases a new study or the press desk drops a sale announcement. Re-running the scraper picks up new posts automatically, no diffing required.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆕 Sign up for a free Apify account at console.apify.com.
2. 🛫 Open the Actor in Apify Console and click "Try for free".
3. 🎛 Set your input. Pick content types and optionally a date window. Leave defaults to pull everything.
4. ▶️ Run it. Watch the live log as records stream into the dataset.
5. 📥 Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or wire the dataset into your downstream pipeline.

⏱️ Total time: under a minute for the full catalog. The first run feels instant once you have the input dialed in.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more travel, news, and research scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Hopper, Inc. or Hopper Technology Solutions. Only publicly available content from Hopper Media Center is collected.

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