# Booking Airport Taxi Scraper (`romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper`) Actor

Get airport taxi price quotes from Booking. Talks directly to Booking.com's own mobile app API, no login or API key needed. Split from the mature, published booking-all-in-one-api for a focused, single-purpose workflow.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Romy](https://apify.com/romy) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 taxi quote chargeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Booking.com Airport Taxi Scraper do?

**Booking.com Airport Taxi Scraper** fetches real Booking.com airport taxi rates for a pickup/drop-off route and time — confirmed live: prices matched the app's own screen exactly for a real Suvarnabhumi Airport → Sukhumvit search. Free-text pickup/drop-off locations are resolved to Google Place IDs automatically, mirroring the app's own two-step flow. Also works as a standalone location lookup.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official [Booking.com](https://www.booking.com/) Android app uses, reverse-engineered by capturing live traffic from a real device. No Booking.com account, no API key of your own. This is the airport-taxi slice of [Booking.com All-in-One API](https://apify.com/romy/booking-all-in-one-api), split out as its own focused Actor.

### Why use Booking.com Airport Taxi Scraper?

- **Real prices, confirmed live** — matched the app's own screen exactly for a real Suvarnabhumi Airport → Sukhumvit search
- **Automatic location resolution** — pass plain location names; this Actor resolves them to Google Place IDs for you, same two-step flow the app itself uses
- **Real per-supplier options** — one row per supplier/vehicle rate option, not a single aggregated price
- **No account needed** — every request works fully anonymously
- **Use cases:** airport transfer price monitoring, travel booking comparison tools

### Input

| Field                              | Type    | Description                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `locationQuery`                    | string  | If set and `pickupDatetime` is empty, this Actor only looks up matching locations (with Google Place IDs) and pushes them — no rates search.                       |
| `locationLat` / `locationLng`      | number  | Bias `locationQuery` suggestions toward a reference point.                                                                                                         |
| `pickup` / `dropoff`               | string  | Free-text label, e.g. `Suvarnabhumi Airport`. Auto-filled when resolving from `pickupQuery`/`dropoffQuery`.                                                        |
| `pickupPlaceId` / `dropoffPlaceId` | string  | Exact Google Place ID. Skips query resolution.                                                                                                                     |
| `pickupQuery` / `dropoffQuery`     | string  | Free text, resolved to a Google Place ID automatically (first match). Ignored if the matching PlaceId field is set.                                                |
| `pickupDatetime`                   | string  | e.g. `2026-09-19T10:00:00`. A time too close to now can legitimately return no suppliers — a real availability constraint, not a bug. Required for a rates search. |
| `passengers`                       | integer | Default `1`                                                                                                                                                        |
| `currency`                         | string  | Default `HOTEL` (account currency)                                                                                                                                 |

Example (rates search):

```json
{
    "pickupQuery": "Suvarnabhumi Airport",
    "dropoffQuery": "Sukhumvit Soi 11",
    "pickupDatetime": "2026-09-19T10:00:00",
    "passengers": 2,
    "currency": "USD"
}
```

Example (location lookup only):

```json
{ "locationQuery": "Sukhumvit" }
```

### Output

One dataset row per supplier/vehicle rate option (trimmed example):

```json
{
    "direction": "outbound",
    "supplier": { "name": "Blacklane" },
    "vehicle": { "type": "Standard", "maxPassengers": 4 },
    "price": 320662,
    "currency": "IDR"
}
```

### Known limitations

- **`currency` was not observed to change the returned price in live testing** — a real run with `currency: "USD"` still returned prices in `IDR`. The parent Actor's README documents a similar caveat for its Attractions vertical (no working currency override there either); this Actor still forwards the parameter as the app itself does, in case it is respected for other accounts/regions, but don't rely on it.
- **Location resolution takes the first autocomplete match.** For an ambiguous `pickupQuery`/`dropoffQuery`, run a `locationQuery` lookup first and pass the exact Place ID instead.
- **A pickup time too close to now can legitimately return zero suppliers.** This is a real availability constraint on Booking's side, not a bug in this Actor.
- This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by Booking.com B.V. Behavior may change if Booking.com changes its API.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0025 per `taxi-quote` result (FREE plan; BRONZE/SILVER/GOLD/PLATINUM/DIAMOND get automatic discounts based on your Apify plan). Location suggestion lookups are not charged.

# Actor input Schema

## `locationQuery` (type: `string`):

If set and pickupDatetime is empty, this Actor only looks up matching locations (with their Google Place IDs) and pushes them. Leave empty to fetch rates.

## `locationLat` (type: `number`):

Latitude of the location.

## `locationLng` (type: `number`):

Longitude of the location.

## `pickup` (type: `string`):

Free-text label, e.g. "Suvarnabhumi Airport". Auto-filled when resolving from pickupQuery.

## `pickupPlaceId` (type: `string`):

Skips pickupQuery resolution.

## `pickupQuery` (type: `string`):

Resolved to a Google Place ID automatically (first match). Ignored if pickupPlaceId is set.

## `dropoff` (type: `string`):

Drop-off location name.

## `dropoffPlaceId` (type: `string`):

Drop-off location's Google Place ID.

## `dropoffQuery` (type: `string`):

Free-text drop-off location search query.

## `pickupDatetime` (type: `string`):

e.g. 2026-09-19T10:00:00. A time too close to now can legitimately return no suppliers — a real availability constraint, not a bug. Required for a rates search.

## `passengers` (type: `integer`):

Number of passengers.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

ISO 4217 currency code for returned prices.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "passengers": 1,
  "currency": "HOTEL"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/booking-airport-taxi-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/k4x3e3ZMlXTBmweZT/builds/hsD575T1RSRxdU6mA/openapi.json