Hostelworld Hotels Scraper

Extract complete accommodation listings from Hostelworld city pages and search URLs. Collect hotels, hostels, and mixed-property results with pricing, ratings, facilities, rooms, images, and location data in a structured dataset. Useful for travel research, accommodation comparison, pricing analysis, and hospitality market monitoring.

Features

• Clean and messy URL support — Accepts standard city pages plus search-style URLs that include query parameters and city IDs
• Hotels and hostels together — Works with /hotels/, /hostels/, and mixed listing pages
• Rich property coverage — Captures property details, pricing layers, review scores, facilities, rooms, promotions, and image links
• Automatic pagination — Keeps fetching pages until your result limit or page cap is reached
• Duplicate protection — Prevents repeated properties from being added to the dataset
• Smart internal defaults — Reuses dates and guest counts from messy URLs when present, otherwise falls back internally
• Failure diagnostics — Detects broken listing responses and logs clear recovery signals instead of failing silently

Use Cases

Travel Planning

Compare accommodation options across cities before booking. Review price ranges, guest ratings, district information, and room availability in one dataset.

Market Intelligence

Track pricing and property positioning across destinations. Identify popular neighborhoods, promoted listings, and differences between hostels and hotels.

Hospitality Benchmarking

Analyze review breakdowns such as cleanliness, staff, facilities, and value for money. Use the data to compare property performance across markets.

Content and Comparison Sites

Build city guides, destination roundups, and accommodation comparison pages with structured listing data and direct property links.

Research and Analytics

Create datasets for tourism research, hospitality dashboards, or competitor monitoring with repeatable city-level collection.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrl	String	Yes	—	Hostelworld city or search URL. Works with clean /hostels/ and /hotels/ links plus messy search URLs such as /pwa/s?...&id=13.
results_wanted	Integer	No	20	Maximum number of properties to collect.
max_pages	Integer	No	5	Safety cap on the number of listing pages to fetch.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional Apify Proxy configuration.

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Output Data

Each dataset item can contain:

Field	Type	Description
property_id	String	Hostelworld property ID
property_name	String	Property name
property_type	String	Property type such as hostel or hotel
star_rating	Number	Official star rating
address	String	Street address
district	String	Primary district or neighborhood
districts	Array	Additional district names when available
description	String	Property overview text
images	Array	Property image URLs
image_count	Number	Number of collected image URLs
city	String	City name
country	String	Country name
latitude	Number	Latitude
longitude	Number	Longitude
distance_km	Number	Distance from city center in kilometers
rating_overall	Number	Overall guest rating
total_ratings	Number	Number of guest ratings
rating_security	Number	Security rating
rating_location	Number	Location rating
rating_staff	Number	Staff rating
rating_atmosphere	Number	Atmosphere rating
rating_cleanliness	Number	Cleanliness rating
rating_facilities	Number	Facilities rating
rating_value_for_money	Number	Value for money rating
price_from	String	Lowest displayed price per night
price_currency	String	Currency used for pricing
lowest_dorm_price	String	Lowest dorm price per night
lowest_private_price	String	Lowest private room price per night
average_price	String	Average lowest nightly price
average_price_original	String	Original average nightly price before discount
average_dorm_price	String	Average dorm price
average_private_price	String	Average private room price
free_cancellation	Boolean	Whether free cancellation is available
free_cancellation_until	String	Free cancellation deadline when available
is_promoted	Boolean	Whether the property is promoted
is_featured	Boolean	Whether the property is featured
is_new	Boolean	Whether the property is newly listed
very_popular	Boolean	Whether the property is marked as very popular
hostelworld_recommends	Boolean	Whether the property is recommended
facilities	Array	Facility names
facilities_count	Number	Number of facilities collected
rooms	Array	Room summaries with type, capacity, ensuite flag, and price
room_types_count	Number	Number of room entries collected
promotions	Array	Promotion summaries
discount_percent	Number	Discount percentage when available
property_url	String	Direct property link
search_url	String	Canonical city search URL used for the run

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Usage Examples

Standard Hostel City Page

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/europe/spain/barcelona/",
  "results_wanted": 20,
  "max_pages": 5
}

Hotel City Page

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hotels/europe/spain/barcelona/",
  "results_wanted": 50,
  "max_pages": 5
}

Messy Search URL

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.hostelworld.com/pwa/s?q=New%20York,%20USA&country=USA&city=New%20York&type=city&id=13&from=2026-06-16&to=2026-06-19&guests=2&page=1",
  "results_wanted": 20,
  "max_pages": 3
}

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Sample Output

{
  "property_id": "61557",
  "property_name": "St Christopher's Inn Barcelona",
  "property_type": "HOSTEL",
  "address": "Carrer de Bergara, 3",
  "district": "Las Ramblas",
  "city": "Barcelona",
  "country": "Spain",
  "latitude": 41.3861073,
  "longitude": 2.16762,
  "distance_km": 0.22,
  "rating_overall": 85,
  "total_ratings": 15633,
  "rating_security": 90,
  "rating_location": 96,
  "rating_staff": 85,
  "rating_atmosphere": 82,
  "rating_cleanliness": 82,
  "rating_facilities": 80,
  "rating_value_for_money": 81,
  "price_from": "33.41",
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "lowest_dorm_price": "33.41",
  "lowest_private_price": "217.34",
  "free_cancellation": false,
  "facilities_count": 18,
  "room_types_count": 6,
  "property_url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/61557/st-christophers-inn-barcelona/",
  "search_url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/europe/spain/barcelona/"
}

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Tips for Best Results

Use Real City or Search URLs

• Copy URLs directly from Hostelworld city pages or search pages
• Both clean city links and query-based search URLs are supported
• If the URL already contains dates or guests, those values are reused automatically unless you override them

Control Collection Size

• Start with results_wanted: 20 for quick checks
• Increase the result limit for larger cities with many pages
• Use max_pages as a hard safety cap when testing new markets

Price Comparisons

• Keep the same type of source URL structure across comparison runs
• Different travel dates embedded in the source URL can change availability and rates significantly
• Compare similar stay setups when building market benchmarks

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Integrations

Connect your dataset with:

• Google Sheets — Review pricing and ratings in spreadsheets
• Airtable — Build searchable accommodation databases
• Make — Trigger downstream travel workflows
• Zapier — Send new run results into business automations
• Webhooks — Push fresh listing data to your own systems
• Slack — Notify teams when collection finishes

Export Formats

• JSON — For applications and automation
• CSV — For spreadsheets and flat-file analysis
• Excel — For business reporting
• XML — For system integrations

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does it work with both hotels and hostels?

Yes. The actor accepts Hostelworld hotel pages, hostel pages, and mixed city listing URLs.

Can it handle messy search URLs?

Yes. Search-style URLs with query parameters, dates, guest counts, and direct city IDs are supported.

Will it collect all properties in a city?

It keeps collecting until it reaches results_wanted, the source runs out of pages, or max_pages is reached.

Why do some fields appear only on some properties?

Hostelworld does not expose every field for every listing. Missing fields are omitted instead of filled with empty placeholder values.

Can I override the dates embedded in a URL?

No exposed override is required. The actor derives stay settings from the source URL when available and otherwise uses internal defaults.

What happens if the source changes?

The actor retries listing requests with alternate browser-like headers, logs response-shape mismatches clearly, and probes the source URL for recovery signals before failing.

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Support

For issues or feature requests, contact support through the Apify Console.

Resources

• Apify Documentation
• API Reference
• Scheduling Runs

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