Hostelworld Scraper – Hostels, Dorm Prices & Reviews

Hostelworld Scraper searches Hostelworld by city, or works on hostels you name, and extracts images, facilities, dorm and private room prices, the full ratings breakdown, geo, address, policies and guest reviews — from the app's own mobile API. It reads Hostelworld's API directly, so it's fast, reliable and complete — no flaky HTML parsing, no headless browser. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or an API.

Every column is a scalar or a list of text. Pick the mode for the shape you want — a row per hostel, a row per room type, or a row per review — and the export opens as a table, with no nested objects to unpack.

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Why use this Hostelworld Scraper?

• No code required — set your input, click Start, download your data.
• Fast & accurate — reads Hostelworld's own mobile API and returns structured JSON, not scraped HTML.
• Rich, structured data — every field below, clean and ready to use. Flat columns only: no nested objects, so a CSV or Excel export opens as a table.
• You choose the grain — a row per hostel, a row per room type, or a row per review, and the bill is per hostel either way.
• A whole city in one run — Hostelworld returns a city's entire property list in a single response, so there are no pagination gaps to worry about.
• Transparent pay-per-result pricing — pay only for the rows you get.
• Export anywhere — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or pull it live via the Apify API.

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What can you do with Hostelworld data?

• Market & competitor research — compare every hostel in a city on price, rating and facilities.
• Price & availability monitoring — set a check-in date and track dorm and private rates over time, per hostel or per room type.
• Review mining — every review of every hostel in a city, with its sub-scores and traveller type, one row each.
• Data science & trend analysis — build clean datasets of hostel pricing and ratings.
• Lead generation & enrichment — feed hostel names, addresses and geo into your own tools.

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What data does the Hostelworld Scraper extract?

A hostel row carries id, name, type, url, overallRating, numberOfRatings, the seven rating sub-scores, pricePerNight, dormPricePerNight, privatePricePerNight, their average and pre-discount counterparts, discountPercent, currency, city, country, district, address1, address2, latitude, longitude, distanceFromCentreKm, overview, images, imagesGallery, facilities, facilitiesFree, facilitiesPaid and promotions — plus the profile columns (description, directions, checkInFrom, policies, taxes, …) when profiles are on. A room row is one dorm or private room with its own price, capacity and rate plan; a review row is one review with its ratings and who wrote it. See the full field table below.

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How do I scrape Hostelworld? (3 steps)

1. Pick a mode — it decides what one row is: a hostel, a room type, or a review.
2. Say which hostels — a location in q, or IDs and URLs in propertyUrls. Both work in every mode. Everything else has a default.
3. Run & export — click Start, then download the dataset as JSON/CSV/Excel or fetch it via the API.

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Which mode do I want?

The mode decides what one row is. The hostel source is a separate choice, so any mode can run on a whole city (q) or on hostels you name (propertyUrls).

mode	One row is	Rows per hostel	Billed per hostel
search	a hostel, as the search lists it, plus whichever include… extras you switch on	1	property-row, plus each extra you add
properties	a hostel with its profile — description, directions, facilities, policies, cancellation terms, fees, check-in times	1	property-row + detailed-profile
availability	a hostel's prices for your dates — lowest dorm and private, pre-discount, promotions, beds free	1	property-row + room-availability
rooms	one dorm or private room on offer, with its own price, capacity, rate plan and photos	one per room type	property-row + room-availability
reviews	one guest review, with its per-category ratings and the traveller who wrote it	one per review	property-row + review-item per review

availability and rooms make the same request and cost the same — one gives you a hostel per row, the other a room per row. Pick rooms when you want dorm prices as a table rather than a lowest-price summary.

A mode fetches only its own slice: asking for reviews cannot also bill you for profiles. Measured on live runs — reviews for two hostels at three reviews each charges property-row=2 and review-item=6, and nothing else.

Searching is not a prerequisite. Every slice endpoint is addressed by property ID, so a run on propertyUrls costs one request per hostel per slice with no listing call in front of it.

Finding a hostel's ID

propertyUrls takes a numeric ID or any hostelworld.com property URL:

98483
https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/98483/avenue-hostel-and-suites/

The name in the URL is cosmetic — Hostelworld resolves the page by ID and redirects — so a stale or truncated slug still works. Duplicates are collapsed before anything is billed.

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What inputs does it take?

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	What one row is: search, properties, availability, rooms or reviews.
q	string	Lisbon	A location to work on: a city, neighbourhood, or property name (e.g. 'Lisbon'). Resolved via Hostelworld's own mobile autocomplete. Works in every mode. Ignored when propertyUrls is also set.
propertyUrls	array	[]	Work on these hostels instead of searching, as numeric IDs or hostelworld.com property URLs. Works in every mode, and wins over q.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Mode search only. Add each hostel's profile to the row. One extra request per hostel, billed as detailed-profile.
includeAvailability	boolean	false	Mode search only. Add the dates' prices, promotions and beds-free columns. Billed as room-availability. Setting dateStart switches this on by itself.
reviewsPerProperty	integer	10	Mode reviews. How many reviews per hostel, in reviewsSort order — one row and one charge each. Values above 50 are fetched in pages of 50.
reviewsSort	string	-date	-date newest, date oldest, -rating best, rating worst first. Worst-first is the one for complaint monitoring.
dateStart	string	–	Check-in date YYYY-MM-DD, not in the past. Defaults to tomorrow when availability is fetched.
daysAhead	integer	–	Price this many days from the run's start date instead — for scheduled monitoring, where a fixed date goes stale. Setting both is rejected.
numNights	integer	2	Number of nights to price, 1-30. Hostelworld refuses 31 even though its own error message says 31 is allowed — measured.
numberOfGuests	integer	2	Guests to price for. Changes which beds and rooms are offered at all.
currency	string	EUR	Three-letter ISO currency code for every price on the row. All modes. Case does not matter: usd is sent as USD, because Hostelworld rejects a lower-case code outright.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum hostels to work on (0 = all). It caps hostels, not rows, because the hostel is the billing unit: 20 hostels in rooms mode is 20 charges and perhaps 150 rows.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Route requests through a proxy (Apify Proxy by default).

About q: it's resolved through Hostelworld's own autocomplete. The actor prefers a city match among the suggestions and otherwise takes the first result. A city name (e.g. "Lisbon") returns every property in that city (capped by maxItems); a specific property name (e.g. "Lisbon Calling") returns just that one property.

Hostelworld indexes cities and properties, not districts or regions, and it answers a name it does not know with its best guess rather than with nothing. Measured: Alfama — a Lisbon neighbourhood — resolves to Munich, Germany, and Europe to Andorra la Vella. Gibberish (zzzzqqqq) correctly returns no match and the run says so. Because of that guess, every search run's status message names the place it actually searched, and says so loudly when the match shares no name with your query:

Searched Lisbon, Portugal (Hostelworld's match for 'Lisbon'). Delivered 5 rows from 5 hostels.
Check the location: Hostelworld matched 'Alfama' to 'Munich, Germany', which shares no name
with what you asked for. If that is the place you meant, nothing is wrong.

A native name is not a typo, so lisboa → Lisbon and Roma → Rome pass without a warning. To scrape a neighbourhood, search the city and filter on the district column, or put the hostels' IDs in propertyUrls.

includeReviews is gone. It was a search-mode toggle that nested a list of reviews inside a hostel row. A row now holds only scalars, so reviews have their own grain: use mode: "reviews", with the same q or propertyUrls. A run that still sends includeReviews: true is refused with that message rather than quietly dropping the data.

Example input

Search a city, with dorm prices for a two-night stay:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "q": "Lisbon",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeAvailability": true,
  "daysAhead": 14,
  "numNights": 2,
  "numberOfGuests": 2,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Track the dorm price of three hostels you already know — no search, no profile charge. With daysAhead the target night moves with the schedule instead of going stale:

{
  "mode": "availability",
  "propertyUrls": [
    "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/98483/avenue-hostel-and-suites/",
    "65432",
    "52411"
  ],
  "daysAhead": 21,
  "numNights": 2,
  "numberOfGuests": 2,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Watch for complaints — the five worst reviews of every hostel in a city. One row per review, and maxItems caps the hostels, not the rows:

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "q": "Lisbon",
  "reviewsPerProperty": 5,
  "reviewsSort": "rating",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Dorm prices as a table — one row per room type, with its capacity, rate plan and pre-discount price:

{
  "mode": "rooms",
  "propertyUrls": ["98483", "52411"],
  "daysAhead": 14,
  "numNights": 2,
  "numberOfGuests": 2,
  "maxItems": 0
}

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What does a Hostelworld row look like?

A hostel row, from mode: "search" with profiles and the dates' prices on (long text truncated here):

{
  "id": 98483,
  "name": "Avenue Hostel and Suites",
  "url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/98483/avenue-hostel-and-suites/",
  "city": "Lisbon",
  "country": "Portugal",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "pricePerNight": "17.93",
  "dormPricePerNight": "17.93",
  "privatePricePerNight": "24.05",
  "averagePricePerNight": "17.91",
  "averageDormPricePerNight": "17.91",
  "averagePrivatePricePerNight": "46.17",
  "originalPricePerNight": "24.87",
  "originalDormPricePerNight": "24.87",
  "originalPrivatePricePerNight": "64.12",
  "discountPercent": 28.0,
  "type": "HOSTEL",
  "overallRating": 91,
  "numberOfRatings": "2154",
  "ratingValueForMoney": 89, "ratingSecurity": 93, "ratingLocation": 91,
  "ratingStaff": 94, "ratingAtmosphere": 86, "ratingCleanliness": 92,
  "ratingFacilities": 88,
  "district": null,
  "address1": "Rua Rodrigues Sampaio nº138",
  "address2": null,
  "latitude": 38.724085,
  "longitude": -9.147335,
  "distanceFromCentreKm": 1.35,
  "distanceUnits": "km",
  "starRating": 0,
  "overview": "More than an Hostel, AVENUE is a home for travelers where …",
  "isFeatured": true, "isPromoted": false, "isNew": false,
  "hostelworldRecommends": false,
  "freeCancellationAvailable": false,
  "freeCancellationAvailableUntil": "2026-10-14T13:46:09+01:00",
  "promotions": ["ALLPLATFORMS -20%", "MOBILEPROMOTION -10%"],
  "images": ["https://a.hwstatic.com/propertyimages/9/98483/wmoautdkocyrrcmjhmsc.jpg"],
  "imagesGallery": ["https://a.hwstatic.com/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/propertyimages/9/98483/wmoautdkocyrrcmjhmsc"],
  "facilities": ["ATM", "Bar", "Board games", "…"],
  "facilitiesFree": ["Free City Maps", "Free WiFi", "Free Internet Access", "Free City Tour"],
  "facilitiesPaid": ["Towels for hire"],

  // profile columns — `includeDetails`, or mode `properties`
  "description": "More than an Hostel, AVENUE is a home for travelers where …",
  "directions": "From airport by subway: 1. Take the Metro (Red line) …",
  "hostelworldSays": null,
  "checkInFrom": "15:00",
  "checkInUntil": "23:00",
  "checkOutUntil": "12:00",
  "maxGuestsPerBooking": 8,
  "policies": ["Age Restriction", "Non Smoking", "Taxes Not Included"],
  "paymentMethods": ["Electron", "JCB", "Maestro", "Mastercard", "Visa", "VisaDebit"],
  "cancellationPolicy": "This property has a 2 day cancellation policy. …",
  "cancellationPolicyDays": 2,
  "freeCancellationDaysInAdvance": 3,
  "thingsToNote": "AVENUE Hostel & Suites Policies and Conditions: …",
  "taxesIncluded": false,
  "taxes": ["City Tax 4 per person per night"],
  "feesIncluded": true,
  "depositPercentage": 15,
  "videos": [],

  // availability columns — `includeAvailability`, or mode `availability`
  "checkInDate": "2026-10-30",
  "nights": 2,
  "guests": 2,
  "vat": 0,
  "cancellationOptions": ["Free Cancellation rates", "Non-refundable rate"],
  "dormTypesAvailable": 3,
  "privateTypesAvailable": 4,
  "bedsAvailable": 87
}

A room row, from mode: "rooms" — one per dorm or private room on offer:

{
  "id": 98483,
  "name": "Avenue Hostel and Suites",
  "url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/98483/avenue-hostel-and-suites/",
  "city": "Lisbon",
  "country": "Portugal",
  "checkInDate": "2026-10-30", "nights": 2, "guests": 2,
  "roomId": 547681,
  "roomName": "Basic 4 Bed Mixed Dorm",
  "roomLabel": "Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room",
  "roomCategory": "dorm",
  "roomType": "Mixed Dorm",
  "roomGrade": "Basic",
  "capacity": 4,
  "isEnsuite": false,
  "bedsAvailable": 12,
  "roomsAvailable": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "pricePerNight": "20.01",
  "averagePricePerNight": "20.18",
  "originalAveragePricePerNight": "28.03",
  "discountPercent": 28.0,
  "totalPrice": "40.36",
  "originalTotalPrice": "56.06",
  "ratePlanCount": 2,
  "cheapestPaymentOption": "Non-refundable",
  "paymentOptions": ["Deposit only", "Non-refundable"],
  "roomDescription": "Dormitory style and range in size from 2 beds upwards. …",
  "roomImages": ["https://a.hwstatic.com/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/propertyimages/9/98483/cgeliftecjhyzzpm1akq"]
}

A review row, from mode: "reviews" — one per review, with the hostel's review mix on each so the export reads on its own:

{
  "id": "98483",
  "name": "Avenue Hostel and Suites",
  "url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/98483/avenue-hostel-and-suites/",
  "city": "Lisbon",
  "country": "Portugal",
  "propertyReviewCount": 348,
  "propertyPositiveReviews": 138,
  "propertyNegativeReviews": 5,
  "propertySoloPercentage": 89.13,
  "propertyCouplesPercentage": 8.7,
  "propertyGroupsPercentage": 2.17,
  "reviewId": "16698211",
  "reviewDate": "2026-10-11",
  "reviewNotes": "very good for the price. But because shower/toilet are shared …",
  "reviewLanguage": "en",
  "isMachineTranslated": true,
  "ownerComment": null,
  "reviewRatingOverall": 91,
  "reviewRatingValueForMoney": 100,
  "reviewRatingSafety": 100,
  "reviewRatingLocation": 100,
  "reviewRatingStaff": 100,
  "reviewRatingAtmosphere": 80,
  "reviewRatingCleanliness": 80,
  "reviewRatingFacilities": 80,
  "guestType": "MALE",
  "guestAge": "25-30",
  "tripTypes": ["REGULARVACATION"],
  "guestNickname": "aFWFJgaI0yG0ZcCf",
  "guestGender": "Female",
  "guestNationality": "France",
  "guestReviewCount": 1
}

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Which fields are in each row?

Every row of a run has the same columns, in the same order. A null means Hostelworld does not offer that value for that hostel; a column that is absent is one the mode could never fill. Each grain has its own view in the dataset tab, so the export has the right headers without being trimmed by hand.

Columns	Modes that have them
identity: id, name, url, city, country	all five
listing, ratings, lowest prices, flags, images, facilities	search, properties, and the price columns in availability
profile (description … videos)	properties, and search with includeDetails
availability (average and pre-discount prices, discountPercent, promotions, checkInDate … bedsAvailable)	availability, and search with includeAvailability
room (roomId … roomImages)	rooms
review (reviewId … guestReviewCount)	reviews

Hostel columns

Field	Type	Description
id, name, type	text	Hostelworld property ID, name, and property type (e.g. HOSTEL)
url	link	Property page on hostelworld.com. Built from the name's slug when the hostel came from a search; from the ID alone (/hostels/p/98483/hostel/, which redirects to the canonical page) in the modes whose payload carries no name
overallRating	number	Overall score on Hostelworld's 0-100 scale
numberOfRatings	text	How many guest ratings the score is based on
ratingValueForMoney, ratingSecurity, ratingLocation, ratingStaff, ratingAtmosphere, ratingCleanliness, ratingFacilities	number	The seven sub-scores, same 0-100 scale. Hostelworld sends these under two different sets of names depending on the endpoint; both are mapped onto these columns
currency	text	Currency of every price on the row
pricePerNight	text	Lowest nightly price across all room types
dormPricePerNight / privatePricePerNight	text	Lowest dorm bed / private room nightly price
city, country, district	text	City, country, and the neighbourhood name when Hostelworld assigns one (31 of 82 Lisbon properties)
address1, address2	text	Street address lines
latitude, longitude	number	Coordinates
distanceFromCentreKm / distanceUnits	number / text	Distance from the city centre and its unit
starRating	number	Hotel-style star rating (0 for most hostels)
overview	text	Short property blurb, HTML stripped
isFeatured / isPromoted / isNew / hostelworldRecommends	boolean	Placement and editorial flags
freeCancellationAvailable / freeCancellationAvailableUntil	boolean / text	Free-cancellation eligibility and deadline
images / imagesGallery	array	Full-size property photo URLs and the extended gallery
facilities	array	Every facility, as a flat sorted list of names
facilitiesFree / facilitiesPaid	array	The facilities Hostelworld files under Free and Available for a Fee, so "Towels for hire" does not read as a free towel

Profile columns — includeDetails, or mode properties

Field	Type	Description
description / directions / hostelworldSays	text	The hostel's own description, how to get there, and Hostelworld's editorial note (set on 2 of 12 sampled hostels)
checkInFrom / checkInUntil / checkOutUntil	text	Check-in window and latest check-out, as HH:MM
maxGuestsPerBooking	number	Largest party Hostelworld will take in one booking
policies	array	House policies, e.g. Age Restriction, Non Smoking
paymentMethods	array	Cards accepted at the property
cancellationPolicy / cancellationPolicyDays	text / number	The deposit-rate cancellation terms and their notice period in days
freeCancellationDaysInAdvance	number	How far ahead a free cancellation has to be made
thingsToNote	text	The property's own long-form conditions
taxesIncluded / taxes	boolean / array	Whether tax is in the price, and each tax as City Tax 4 per person per night
feesIncluded	boolean	Whether property fees are in the price
depositPercentage	number	Deposit taken at booking, as a percentage
videos	array	Property video URLs (YouTube), when the hostel has any

Availability columns — includeAvailability, or mode availability

Only the availability request carries these. The search listing has keys of its own for the average, pre-discount and promotion figures and they are empty on every property measured (762 across six cities, dated and undated), so a mode that makes no availability request does not carry the columns at all rather than carrying eight permanent nulls.

Field	Type	Description
checkInDate / nights / guests	text / number	What the prices on this row are for, so an export says so without its input
averagePricePerNight / averageDormPricePerNight / averagePrivatePricePerNight	text	Average nightly price over the stay. Needs availability — the search listing leaves these null even when dates are given (measured on 762 properties across six cities)
originalPricePerNight / originalDormPricePerNight / originalPrivatePricePerNight	text	Pre-discount price of the average nightly price above, when a promotion applies. Comes from the matching rate plan, so it pairs with average…, not with the lowest price — Hostelworld publishes no pre-discount figure for the lowest single night
discountPercent	number	Total discount on that rate plan, stacked promotions included (20% + 10% = 28%). Needs availability
promotions	array	Active promotions as NAME -20%, in the order they stack. Needs availability — the search listing's own promotions field is empty on every property measured
vat	number	VAT percentage applied
cancellationOptions	array	The rate-plan families on offer, e.g. Free Cancellation rates
dormTypesAvailable / privateTypesAvailable	number	How many dorm and private room types are bookable
bedsAvailable	number	Beds free across all of them

Room columns — mode rooms

Field	Type	Description
roomId, roomName, roomLabel	text	Hostelworld's room ID, its name, and the label the site shows
roomCategory	text	dorm or private
roomType / roomGrade	text	e.g. Mixed Dorm / Basic, Standard, Deluxe
capacity / isEnsuite	number / boolean	Beds in the room, and whether the bathroom is private
bedsAvailable / roomsAvailable	number	Free beds in this room type, and free rooms where Hostelworld reports it
pricePerNight	text	The room's own lowest nightly price
averagePricePerNight / originalAveragePricePerNight	text	Average per night over the stay on the cheapest rate plan, and its pre-discount price
totalPrice / originalTotalPrice	text	The whole stay on that plan, before and after discount
discountPercent	number	That plan's total discount
ratePlanCount / cheapestPaymentOption / paymentOptions	number / text / array	How many rate plans the room has, which one the prices above are from, and all of their payment terms — the cheapest is often the non-refundable one, so the price does not travel without it
roomDescription / roomImages	text / array	The room's description and photos

Review columns — mode reviews

Field	Type	Description
reviewId / reviewDate	text	Review ID and the date it was left
reviewNotes	text	What the guest wrote
reviewLanguage / isMachineTranslated	text / boolean	Original language, and whether Hostelworld translated it
ownerComment	text	The property's reply (3 of 150 sampled reviews have one)
reviewRatingOverall	number	The review's own score, 0-100 — the mean of the seven below
reviewRatingValueForMoney, reviewRatingSafety, reviewRatingLocation, reviewRatingStaff, reviewRatingAtmosphere, reviewRatingCleanliness, reviewRatingFacilities	number	The reviewer's sub-scores
guestType	text	The traveller type Hostelworld records for the booking: MALE or FEMALE (a solo traveller), COUPLE, MIXEDGROUP
guestAge / tripTypes	text / array	Age band and trip purpose, e.g. 25-30, REGULARVACATION
guestNickname / guestGender / guestNationality / guestReviewCount	text / number	The reviewer's profile. guestGender is self-reported and null on about two thirds of reviews
propertyReviewCount	number	How many reviews the hostel has in total, so you can tell a sample from the lot
propertyPositiveReviews / propertyNegativeReviews	number	Hostelworld's own positive/negative split for the hostel
propertySoloPercentage / propertyCouplesPercentage / propertyGroupsPercentage	number	Who stays there, as a percentage of its reviewers

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Which facility categories does Hostelworld report?

Hostelworld groups facilities into categories. The grouping is organisational — a bar is filed under Food & Drinks and a lift under Accessibility — so facilities flattens it into one sorted list of names you can filter on directly, e.g. "Bar" in facilities.

These are the fifteen categories seen across twelve hostels in three cities:

Category	Category	Category
General	Bedroom	Kitchen
Services	Food & Drinks	Laundry
Entertainment	Safety & Security	Outdoors
Social Areas	Wellness	Accessibility
Free	Available for a Fee	Hostelworld Policies

Two of them change what a facility costs, which a flat list would lose, so they keep their own columns: facilitiesFree and facilitiesPaid. That is how you can tell free WiFi from Towels for hire.

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What do Hostelworld's price and rating terms mean?

• Dorm vs private — a dorm price is per bed in a shared room; a private price is for the whole room at the party size you asked for. dormPricePerNight and privatePricePerNight are the cheapest of each, and pricePerNight is the cheaper of the two. Measured: a 2-bed private at 2 guests prices 21.55 per person and 43.10 for the room, and the room columns carry the 43.10.
• Lowest vs average vs original — lowest is the cheapest single night found, average is the mean across the nights of your stay, and original is the pre-discount price shown when a promotion applies. All three are strings with the currency in currency.
• Rate plans — one room is sold on several plans (deposit-only, non-refundable, free cancellation), each with its own price. The average…, total… and discountPercent columns come from the cheapest plan, which is Hostelworld's own convention for a "lowest" price — and often the non-refundable one, so cheapestPaymentOption says which plan it is.
• 0-100 rating — Hostelworld scores properties out of 100, not out of 5 or 10. 94 means 9.4/10 in the app's display.
• starRating — the hotel-style star count, which is 0 for most hostels. Use overallRating for quality, not this.
• Distance from centre — straight-line distance from the city centre, in the unit given by distanceUnits (km).

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Pricing — pay per result

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay only for the rows it delivers.

Prices below take effect on 26 October 2026. Until then this Actor charges the previous two-event pricing — $1.50 per 1,000 hostels and $1.50 per 1,000 profiles — and room availability and reviews are not billed at all, because those two events do not exist in the current pricing entry yet.

Event	Price (Bronze)	When charged
Hostel (listing)	$1.50 per 1,000	Every hostel returned, in every mode.
Hostel profile	+$3.00 per 1,000	Only when profiles were asked for and the profile came back.
Room and dorm availability	+$3.00 per 1,000	Only when availability was asked for and rooms came back.
Guest review	+$1.00 per 1,000 reviews	Per review delivered — so the count is yours to set.

Prices are per plan tier; Free pays more and Silver/Gold less. What a run costs per 1,000 hostels, at Bronze:

Run	Cost per 1,000 hostels
search, profiles off	$1.50
search, default (profiles on)	$4.50
properties	$4.50
availability	$4.50
rooms (same request as availability, a row per room type)	$4.50
reviews, 10 reviews each	$11.50
reviews, 3 reviews each	$4.50

Charges are per hostel, not per row. A rooms run over 1,000 hostels delivers several thousand rows and is charged 1,000 listing rows and 1,000 availability requests — the number of room types a hostel happens to have does not change the bill. Reviews are the one exception, priced per review, which is what reviewsPerProperty sets.

Each slice is charged on its own, and only when it arrives. Asking for reviews does not bill you for profiles: a reviews run over two hostels at three reviews each charges two listing rows and six reviews, nothing more. A profile or availability call that fails leaves its slice off the row and is not billed.

Reviews are the one slice priced per item rather than per hostel, so reviewsPerProperty is your cost dial. The default of 10 is one request per hostel; one sampled hostel had 348 reviews available, which on its own would be $0.35 at Bronze.

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How do I run it from the API?

Run it programmatically with the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hostelworld-api-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "mode": "search",
  "q": "Lisbon",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "numberOfGuests": 2,
  "numNights": 2,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}'

Or with the Apify CLI: apify call hostelworld-api-scraper -i input.json -o.

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FAQ

Do I need a Hostelworld account or API key? No. The actor talks to Hostelworld's mobile API for you — you only need an Apify account.

How do I get dorm and private room prices per room type? Use mode: "rooms" — one row per dorm or private room, with its capacity, rate plan, pre-discount price and photos. mode: "availability" makes the same request for the same price and gives you one row per hostel instead, with the lowest dorm and private prices. Either needs a date: set dateStart, or daysAhead for a scheduled run, and it defaults to tomorrow if you set neither. Without a date you still get the listing's pricePerNight, dormPricePerNight and privatePricePerNight — but not the average-price, pre-discount, discountPercent or promotion columns, which only the availability payload carries.

Can I scrape hostels I already know, without searching? Yes, in every mode. Put numeric IDs or hostelworld.com property URLs in propertyUrls and pick the mode you want. No location search runs, so nothing in the listing is fetched or billed. Note that name, city and country are then null in rooms and reviews rows — neither payload carries the hostel's name — but url is always there to join on, and mode: "properties" gives you the names.

Can I scrape a whole city, not just the first page? Yes. Hostelworld's city endpoint returns the city's entire property list in one response, so a run with maxItems: 0 gets every property in that city. There is no page-by-page crawl to stall halfway.

Does it return guest reviews? Yes — mode: "reviews" returns one row per review, with its per-category ratings and the traveller who wrote it. It takes a location as happily as a list of IDs, so {"mode": "reviews", "q": "Lisbon"} collects reviews across a whole city. Reviews are billed per review and reviewsPerProperty sets how many (10 by default, newest first; reviewsSort: "rating" gives you the worst first). Asking for reviews does not also charge you for profiles.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use Apify's Schedules to run it hourly or daily and append to the same dataset — the usual setup for tracking hostel prices for a city over time.

How is cost bounded? Set maxItems — it is a hard ceiling on the number of hostels, which is the billing unit, and every charge is per hostel except reviews, which are per review and capped by reviewsPerProperty. In rooms and reviews one hostel is many rows, so the row count can exceed maxItems while the bill cannot. The run also stops as soon as your max total charge is spent, and says so in its status message rather than looking like it ran out of hostels. When you paste a long list of IDs, raise maxItems or set it to 0.

I got a wall of HTTP 400 errors — what now? You should not any more: the four things Hostelworld refuses with a 400 are all checked, fixed or explained before the first request.

What you send	What used to happen	What happens now
currency: "usd"	400 on every request (it wants upper case), empty dataset	sent as USD
currency: "eurr"	same	refused before the run starts, with the reason
numNights: 31	400 on every availability request	the input tops out at 30, the measured ceiling
dateStart in the past	400 on every availability request	refused before the run starts, pointing you at daysAhead
reviewsPerProperty past a hostel's review count	the page after the last one 400s and every review of that hostel was lost	read as "no more pages"; you get all it has

And if the upstream refuses something we have not seen, the run stops at the first hostel rather than repeating it for every one, and the status message carries Hostelworld's own words — rather than one log line per hostel and an empty dataset. The same applies when three hostels in a row fail the same way for any other reason. Nothing is delivered or charged in either case. A 400 and a 404 are answers, not blips, so neither is retried; 403, 429, 5xx and Cloudflare's 52x are retried with backoff, and a Retry-After the server sends is obeyed.

What happens if one property fails? Profile, availability and review fetches are best-effort per hostel: a failure leaves that hostel out and the run continues, so one bad ID never kills the run. Nothing is delivered or charged for it, and the run's status message names the IDs that were skipped — a hostel whose request failed and one that simply has no reviews yet are reported differently, because what you do next is different.

Do I need a proxy? A proxy is recommended for reliable runs; set proxyConfiguration (Residential is safest for geo-restricted or bot-protected sites).

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How does it work?

The actor impersonates Hostelworld's official Android app and calls the same mobile API endpoints it does: autocomplete to resolve your location, the city properties endpoint to list it, then per-hostel profile, availability and reviews. The three per-hostel endpoints are addressed by property ID alone, which is why a run on propertyUrls can skip the search entirely. Each response is normalised into the flat rows above — the mode decides the grain, nothing is nested, and no column is a column Hostelworld leaves empty on every hostel. No browser, no HTML scraping — just clean, structured data.

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Good to know

• Scrape only public listing data and respect Hostelworld.com's Terms of Service and robots policy.
• For personal data (reviews carry reviewer details), comply with GDPR/CCPA and applicable law — you are the data controller.
• Hostels are de-duplicated by property id before anything is charged, so the same hostel is never billed twice — including when a search ranking repeats it or your own list contains it twice.
• rooms and reviews rows share their hostel's id by design: the row key is id plus roomId or reviewId.

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Travel & booking toolkit

Part of the Travel & booking toolkit — search and pricing data across accommodation, transport, and travel-planning sites worldwide:

• Booking.com API Scraper — Scrape Booking.com properties, live prices and full room-rate tables.
• Agoda API Scraper — Agoda search results, pricing and property details via GraphQL.
• Airbnb API Scraper — Airbnb listings, details, and reviews via GraphQL API.
• FlixBus API Scraper — FlixBus trips between cities — times, stations, duration, prices.
• Changi Airport Timetable Scraper — Arrival and departure flight timetables from Changi Airport (SIN).
• eSIMDB Travel eSIM Scraper — Travel eSIM data plans from esimdb.com by country/region.

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