# Google Hotels API – Hotel Price Comparison & Price Tracker (`rowfeed/google-hotels-api`) Actor

Google Hotels prices for any city and dates: hotel, stars, rating, reviews, price per night, discounts, and optional prices from every booking site (Booking.com, Expedia, the hotel's own site). Filters for stars, rating and price. Licensed data, no blocked runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-hotels-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, E-commerce, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 hotels

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Hotels API – Hotel Price Comparison & Price Tracker

Get Google Hotels prices for any city and dates: every hotel Google shows, with stars, guest rating, number of reviews, price per night and discount, and, if you want, its price on every booking site (Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, the hotel's own site and more).
Filter by stars, rating and price, sort by price or rating, and re-run on a schedule to track hotel prices.
Built for travel startups, revenue managers and hotels watching competitors' rates, price-comparison sites, and AI travel agents.
The data comes through a licensed data provider (DataForSEO), not by scraping Google from a browser, so runs do not fail on captchas or blocks.

### What you get

- **Every hotel in a Google Hotels search**, in Google's order, 20 to 100 per search.
- **Price per night** for your dates and guests, the price before discount and Google's discount note ("22% less than usual").
- **Stars, guest rating and review count**, location (latitude, longitude) and a photo.
- **Prices from every booking site** (optional): the cheapest offer per site, cheapest first, with the hotel's own site flagged, free-cancellation dates when the site lists one, and room names. Plus the cheapest site and the official-site price side by side.
- **Hotel ids**: re-check the booking-site prices of chosen hotels on any dates without searching again.
- Any city, country, currency and language Google Hotels supports.

Hotel data only: no phone numbers, guest names or review texts.

### Example output

A real row from "hotels in new york" (2 adults, 2 nights, USD):

```json
{
  "type": "hotel",
  "query": "hotels in new york",
  "position": 2,
  "hotel_id": "ChoImOTyzeuCzrykARoNL2cvMTF2cGw0bnIzYhAB",
  "title": "LY New York Hotel",
  "stars": 2,
  "rating": 4.3,
  "reviews": 612,
  "price_per_night": 175,
  "currency": "USD",
  "check_in": "2026-11-20",
  "check_out": "2026-11-22",
  "adults": 2,
  "latitude": 40.7835127,
  "longitude": -73.8408876,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-21T12:07:38+00:00"
}
```

With **booking-site prices** on, each hotel also gets a `booking_prices` row. A real one for a Paris hotel showed 24 booking sites, from €102 a night on the cheapest site to €152 on Booking.com and Hotels.com, with the hotel's own site at €125:

```json
{
  "type": "booking_prices",
  "title": "The Originals Boutique, Hôtel Maison Montmartre, Paris",
  "cheapest_site": "Bluepillow.fr",
  "cheapest_price_per_night": 102,
  "official_site_price_per_night": 125,
  "booking_sites": [
    {"site": "Bluepillow.fr", "price_per_night": 102, "currency": "EUR", "official_site": false, "free_cancellation_until": null, "url": "https://..."},
    {"site": "Super.com", "price_per_night": 110, "currency": "EUR", "official_site": false, "free_cancellation_until": null, "url": "https://..."}
  ]
}
```

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `searches` | What you would type into Google Hotels, e.g. `hotels in paris`, `hotels near times square`. Up to 100. |
| `checkIn`, `checkOut` | Dates (`YYYY-MM-DD`). Empty = 30 days from today, 2 nights. Up to 30 nights. |
| `adults` | Guests, 1 to 12. Default 2. |
| `currency` | `USD`, `EUR`, `GBP` ... Default USD. |
| `location` | Country the search is made from, e.g. `United States`, `Germany`. |
| `maxHotels` | 20 to 100 per search, in steps of 20. Default 20. |
| `bookingSites` | Also get prices from every booking site for each hotel. |
| `hotelIds` | `hotel_id` values from earlier results: booking-site prices for those hotels only, no search. |
| `minStars`, `minRating`, `priceMin`, `priceMax` | Filters. |
| `sortBy` | `lowest_price`, `highest_rating`, `most_reviewed`, or Google's order. |

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **$2 per 1,000 hotels** ($0.002 per hotel row).
- $0.002 per 20 hotels requested in a search.
- $0.004 per hotel for prices from every booking site (only when turned on).
- $0.001 per run start.

Examples: 20 hotels in one city cost about $0.04. With prices from every booking site, about $0.12. Tracking the booking-site prices of 5 chosen hotels every day costs about $0.02 a day.

You can cap the cost of a run with the maximum charge setting; the Actor only starts the lookups the budget covers. Failed lookups are never charged.
Live searches need a paid Apify plan (any plan); the pre-filled example works on the free plan.

### Good to know

- Prices are per night, for the dates and guests you give, as Google shows them (taxes and fees as Google shows them in that country).
- Google does not apply the star and price filters itself, so the Actor removes hotels outside them before charging; a filtered search can return fewer hotels than asked for. The rating filter and the sort options are applied by Google.
- Results usually arrive in seconds; booking-site prices take a little longer.
- A hotel can be missing a price when it has no availability on your dates.
- Put the country in the search or set **Search from country** to it: `hotels in paris` searched from the United States can return places named Paris in the US.

### Related tools

- [Google Search Results API](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-serp-api) – Google results for any query.
- [Local Rank Tracker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-maps-rank-tracker) – a hotel's Google Maps ranking around the city.

Not affiliated with Google.

# Actor input Schema

## `searches` (type: `array`):

What you would type into Google Hotels, e.g. "hotels in paris" or "hotels near times square". Up to 100.

## `checkIn` (type: `string`):

Check-in date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = 30 days from today.

## `checkOut` (type: `string`):

Check-out date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = 2 nights after check-in. Up to 30 nights.

## `adults` (type: `integer`):

Number of adult guests.

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

3-letter currency code, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Country the search is made from (prices and booking sites can differ by country), e.g. "United States", "Germany".

## `maxHotels` (type: `integer`):

20 to 100, in steps of 20.

## `bookingSites` (type: `boolean`):

Also get each hotel's prices from every booking site Google shows (Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, the hotel's own site ...). Adds one booking-prices row per hotel.

## `hotelIds` (type: `array`):

Optional: hotel_id values from earlier results. Each returns its prices from every booking site for the dates above, without a search. Up to 200.

## `minStars` (type: `integer`):

Only hotels with at least this many stars (2-5). 0 = any.

## `minRating` (type: `string`):

Only hotels rated at least this.

## `priceMin` (type: `integer`):

In the chosen currency.

## `priceMax` (type: `integer`):

In the chosen currency.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the results.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code of the results, e.g. en, de, fr.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searches": [
    "hotels in paris",
    "hotels near times square"
  ],
  "adults": 2,
  "currency": "USD",
  "location": "United States",
  "maxHotels": 20,
  "bookingSites": false,
  "hotelIds": [],
  "minStars": 0,
  "minRating": "",
  "sortBy": "",
  "language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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("rowfeed/google-hotels-api").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("rowfeed/google-hotels-api").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 rowfeed/google-hotels-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/google-hotels-api"
        }
    }
}
```

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/t9rur73VGgQVUS83o/builds/DOI3P5v3HBdu1WDzr/openapi.json