# Hotel Rate Tracker in Google Sheets: Daily Competitor Prices

**Use case:** 

Build a hotel rate shopping sheet: Google Hotels prices for every hotel and check-in date, with the cheapest booking site and the official website price, updated in place after each daily run. Revenue managers get a live competitor rate grid in Google Sheets without paid rate shopping tools. Try it on our demo sheet, then paste your own sheet link.

## Input

```json
{
  "spreadsheetId": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XEl1x1BNcQrfP1ZdDyBtvshMn7Pa50-I6eWy6etH9wk/edit",
  "mode": "update",
  "sheetName": "Hotel rates",
  "rawData": [
    {
      "entityId": "sample-1",
      "name": "Sample Hotel Berlin",
      "checkInDate": "2026-10-10",
      "pricePerNight": 189,
      "cheapestSource": "Booking.com",
      "officialPricePerNight": 199
    },
    {
      "entityId": "sample-1",
      "name": "Sample Hotel Berlin",
      "checkInDate": "2026-10-11",
      "pricePerNight": 172,
      "cheapestSource": "Official site",
      "officialPricePerNight": 172
    }
  ],
  "offset": 0,
  "deduplicateByField": "entityId,checkInDate",
  "columnsOrder": [
    "name",
    "checkInDate",
    "pricePerNight",
    "cheapestSource",
    "officialPricePerNight"
  ],
  "onlyListedColumns": false,
  "arrayMode": "join",
  "addTimestamp": true,
  "formatHeader": true,
  "parseValues": false,
  "headerRow": 1
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "mode": {
    "label": "Mode",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "sheetName": {
    "label": "Tab",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "rowsAppended": {
    "label": "Rows added",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "rowsUpdated": {
    "label": "Rows updated",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "duplicatesSkipped": {
    "label": "Duplicates skipped",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "columns": {
    "label": "Columns",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "sheetCreated": {
    "label": "New tab",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "spreadsheetUrl": {
    "label": "Sheet",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Sheets Import & Export: Sync Datasets, Update Rows](https://apify.com/s_actors/google-sheets-import-export.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/s_actors/google-sheets-import-export.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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