MSC Cruises Scraper — Complete Cruise Data Extractor

Extract cruise listings, itineraries, and per-cabin pricing from MSC Cruises across 7 regional markets. Built for travel agencies, price comparison sites, affiliate marketers, and cruise-industry analysts.

Updates

• 2026-06-13 — Much broader European coverage: UK, Italy, Germany, Austria, France & Spain now return all departure dates for each itinerary (previously only one representative sailing) — roughly 4–5× more cruises per market.
• 2026-06-11 — New markets added: France (fr_FR, EUR), Spain (es_ES, EUR).

Why Choose This Scraper?

• ✅ Extract from 7 MSC markets (US, UK, IT, DE, AT, FR, ES) with local-currency pricing
• ✅ Complete cruise data with multi-cabin pricing tiers (Interior, Oceanview, Balcony, Suite, Yacht Club)
• ✅ Filter by 25 destination regions (Mediterranean, Caribbean, Northern Europe, Dubai, Asia, and more)
• ✅ Full forward catalog — every available sailing across the booking window
• ✅ Direct booking/source URLs + itinerary images on every sailing
• ✅ Apify + custom proxy support with geo-matched country codes

Use Cases

• European travel agencies — MSC's biggest strength is Mediterranean and Northern Europe routes
• Affiliate/comparison sites — deep-linkable booking URLs + images
• Yacht Club / premium travel affiliates — rich luxury tier pricing
• Cruise analysts — compare MSC's aggressive EU pricing vs. Royal Caribbean / Costa

Supported Markets

Region	Domain	Currency
en_US	msccruisesusa.com	USD
en_GB	msccruises.co.uk	GBP
it_IT	msccrociere.it	EUR
de_DE	msccruises.de	EUR
de_AT	msccruises.at	EUR
fr_FR	msccroisieres.fr	EUR
es_ES	msccruceros.es	EUR

Input

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
region*	string	Market to scrape	en_US
maxRows	number	Maximum unique cruise results (1-10000)	500
destinations	string[]	Filter by destination code	All
enrichCabinPrices	boolean	Collect prices for every cabin type (EU/UK markets)	false
tailRotationNearWeeks	number	Refresh the whole catalogue over several capped runs (EU/UK markets)	off
tailCursorNamespace	string	Name of the saved rotation position	—
maxRequestRetries	number	Retries for failed requests	5
requestHandlerTimeoutSecs	number	Request timeout (seconds)	30
useApifyProxy	boolean	Use Apify Residential proxy	true
apifyProxyCountryCode	string	Override proxy country	Auto
apifyProxyGroups	string	Proxy tier	RESIDENTIAL
proxyUrl	string	Custom proxy URL	—

Cabin prices (EU/UK markets)

By default the EU and UK markets return a single "from" price per sailing — the cheapest cabin available, whichever type that happens to be.

Turn on enrichCabinPrices to collect a price for every cabin type instead (Interior, Oceanview, Balcony, Suite, Yacht Club). Coverage typically rises from about one cabin type per sailing to around six.

• Requires a residential proxy (leave useApifyProxy on, or supply a residential proxyUrl). It will be skipped with a warning otherwise.
• Adds roughly 37 requests per run.
• Prices already collected are never replaced — only missing cabin types are filled in. Cabin prices added this way come from MSC's promotional fares, so they can sit below the headline price for the same sailing.
• Not available for the Germany and Spain markets; those are unaffected by the setting.
• The US market always returns all cabin types and ignores this setting.

Refreshing the full catalogue on a row budget (EU/UK markets)

A run collects departures in date order and stops at maxRows. If maxRows is smaller than the market's catalogue (about 7,500 sailings), every run refreshes the same nearest sailings and later departures never update.

Set tailRotationNearWeeks to fix that without raising maxRows:

• Each run collects the next N weeks of departures in full, every time.
• The rest of maxRows goes to later departures, starting where the previous run stopped, and wraps around at the end of the catalogue. With maxRows: 3000 and 13 near weeks, every sailing is refreshed about every 4 runs.
• The saved position lives in a key-value store named msc-sweep-cursor in your account. Give one-off or test runs their own tailCursorNamespace so they don't move the position your scheduled runs use.
• maxRows has to leave at least 250 sailings after the near weeks (a week has about 70). Otherwise the later departures are skipped and the log says so.
• Ignored when destinations is set, and for the US market.

Proxy: a country-matched RESIDENTIAL proxy is required for every market. Enable useApifyProxy with the RESIDENTIAL group, or supply a residential proxyUrl.

Destination Codes

Code	Destination	Code	Destination
MED	Mediterranean	CAR	Caribbean
WEE	Western Mediterranean	SOC	Southern Caribbean
EME	Eastern Mediterranean	NCA	Northern Caribbean
MEW	Mediterranean West	BHM	Bahamas
FIO	Northern Europe & Fjords	ALA	Alaska
NOR	Northern Europe	EMW	Dubai & Middle East (US)
CUK	Cruises from UK	DUB	Middle East & Dubai (EU)
BAC	British Isles & Atlantic Coast	SOA	South America
TRA	Transatlantic	ASI	Asia
WOR	World Cruise	FAE	Far East Asia
PAN	Panama Canal	AFR	Africa
POS	Grand Voyages	INW	Indian Ocean
NOA	North America

Cabin Codes

Code	Cabin Type
INTERIOR	Interior / Inside
OCEANVIEW	Ocean View
BALCONY	Balcony
SUITE	Suite
YACHT_CLUB	MSC Yacht Club (premium, ship-within-a-ship)

Output

Each record is a single unique cruise (deduped by cruise_id) with:

• Cruise and itinerary identifiers (cruise_id, itinerary_id)
• Ship name, departure/arrival ports, sailing dates, duration (nights)
• Ports visited between embarkation and disembarkation in sailing order, each with its itinerary day (portsList[].dayIndicator; day 1 is embarkation, so the first port is usually day 2 or later). Days follow MSC's own day-by-day schedule, sea days included in the count; portsList[].daySource is line. When two calls share a day in a way the schedule can't place, the ports are listed in order with an empty dayIndicator and daySource unknown
• Lowest available price with currency
• Ports of call
• pricing_tiers object with per-cabin breakdown (EU/UK/IT markets)
• itineraryImage — sailing thumbnail URL
• Service charges and port charges (where applicable)
• source_url — direct booking link
• platform, company, locale, destinationIds

Sample Output

{
  "cruise_id": "MSC_SEASCAPE_2026-08-15",
  "itinerary_id": "MSC_7N_MEDITERRANEAN",
  "company": "msc",
  "locale": "it_IT",
  "platform": "msc-it_IT",
  "title": "7 Nights Western Mediterranean",
  "ship_name": "MSC Seascape",
  "departure_date": "2026-08-15",
  "duration": 7,
  "price": 849,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "pricing_tiers": {
    "INTERIOR": { "amount": 849, "currency": "EUR" },
    "OCEANVIEW": { "amount": 999, "currency": "EUR" },
    "BALCONY": { "amount": 1299, "currency": "EUR" },
    "SUITE": { "amount": 2199, "currency": "EUR" },
    "YACHT_CLUB": { "amount": 3499, "currency": "EUR" }
  },
  "destinations": ["MED", "WEE"],
  "ports_list": ["Genoa", "Civitavecchia", "Palermo", "Valletta", "Barcelona", "Marseille", "Genoa"],
  "itineraryImage": "https://www.msccrociere.it/...",
  "source_url": "https://www.msccrociere.it/..."
}

Every record carries the full per-cabin pricing_tiers breakdown where MSC publishes it.

Runtime & Cost

• Typical run: ~2-4 minutes for 500 rows
• Full EU/UK/IT market sweep: ~1 minute for 1,500+ cruises
• Full US market sweep: ~10-15 minutes for 4,000 cruises
• Memory: 1 GB default (2 GB recommended for the full US sweep)
• Proxy: a residential proxy is required for every market (Apify RESIDENTIAL or a custom residential proxyUrl)

Usage

{
  "region": "it_IT",
  "maxRows": 500,
  "destinations": ["MED", "WEE"],
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": "RESIDENTIAL"
}

Notes

• Prices in pricing_tiers follow a consistent {amount, currency} shape
• maxRows counts unique cruises (deduped by cruise_id)
• Results stream to the dataset as they are collected, so partial results remain available if a run is stopped early

Related Actors

Looking to build a full cruise pricing dataset? Pair this with:

• Costa Cruises Scraper — MSC's closest EU competitor
• Royal Caribbean Scraper — premium tier comparison
• Celebrity Cruises Scraper — 6 markets
• NCL / Princess / Disney / Holland America / Carnival Scrapers — full coverage

Support

Issues or custom requests? Email support@track.cruises.