# Changelog of Trip.com Scraper — Hotels, Attractions, Trains & Cruises (`sian.agency/trip-com-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/trip-com-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/trip-com-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to **Trip.com Scraper — Hotels, Attractions, Trains & Cruises** will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-07-11] — API engine option (v1.1)

#### ✨ New

- **`engine` input** — choose `browser` (default, unchanged) or `api`, a faster/cheaper alternate data source:
  - **Attractions** — same fields, sourced from a direct API instead of a live browser harvest.
  - **Trains** — now covers **any global route**, not just the 8 known Chinese cities the browser engine supports by name.
  - **Hotels** — a direct content lookup by `hotelId` or `hotelUrl` (new input fields). This is **not** a search and returns **no live price/availability** — only a content dossier (amenities, policies, an aggregate review summary). Use the Browser engine for live rates.
  - **Cruises** — no API engine available (no upstream equivalent); `engine` stays `browser` only.
- New dataset fields (all `null` on Browser-engine rows): `carrier`, `carrier_logo`, `ticket_type` (Trains); `open_status`, `ranking_desc` (Attractions); `amenities`, `policies`, `review_summary`, `country_name`, `province_name` (Hotels).

#### 🔐 Notes

- No pricing changes — API-engine rows bill through the exact same events as Browser-engine rows (per-row for Attractions/Trains, the existing hotel-detail premium event for the Hotels lookup).
- All rows, both engines, merge into the same dataset with the same core field names — mix engines across runs without reshaping downstream pipelines.

### \[2026-06-09] — Tier integrity fix

#### 🔐 Changes

- **Free-tier limit integrity** — the internal smoke-test override is now ignored on the platform; only your actual plan tier governs the result allowance. No change for paying users.

### \[2026-06-07]

#### 🎉 Trip.com Scraper - Launch! (v1.0.0)

- **4 Verticals, 1 Actor** - Scrape Trip.com hotels, attractions, China trains and cruises from a single dropdown — the only Trip.com / Ctrip scraper that covers all four
- **Hotel Data** - Names, star ratings, live prices and currency, struck-through rates, review scores with sub-scores, WGS84 coordinates, address, zones, photos and video (93–95% field coverage)
- **Hotel Detail Mode** - One row per hotel with the full ~130-image photo album, a reviews sample, ~30 nearby attractions and reservation/policy notes
- **Attractions Scraper** - Tickets, tours and sightseeing points of interest with price, rating, review count, category, opening hours, coordinates and descriptions
- **China Rail Timetables** - Every train for a route and date with seat-class fares and live ticket availability, high-speed flags, durations and station coordinates
- **Featured Cruises** - A curated set of featured sailings across multiple cruise lines with ship, itinerary, departure city, date and price
- **Native Filters** - Paste any Trip.com search URL to reuse its star, price-band and district filters

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Replace five separate hotel, attraction, rail and cruise scrapers with one travel-data toolkit
- Get richer rows than hotel-only competitors — rooms, full album, reviews and nearby POIs in a single hotel record
- Start free with no credit card, then pay only for the data you successfully receive
- Export clean JSON, CSV or Excel with a `vertical` field that keeps mixed results tidy

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Revenue managers benchmarking competitor hotel prices and review scores across a destination
- Travel-tech analysts mapping a city's full travel supply — hotels, attractions, trains and cruises
- Travel agencies surfacing China high-speed rail options with live seat-class fares and availability
- Content creators and affiliates building "top things to do" guides from attraction and POI data
- Cruise resellers curating featured sailings for deal pages