Simple Booking Scraper

Extract normalized accommodation details from public Booking.com hotel and search pages. The Actor reads public HTML and embedded structured data only; it does not sign in, submit bookings, call private APIs, solve CAPTCHAs, or bypass access controls.

What it returns

Each dataset row represents one accommodation and can include:

• Name, description, canonical Booking.com URL, guest score, star class, and review count
• Public check-in and check-out information
• Visible room types, beds, occupancy, availability, prices, currencies, and features
• Public address, coordinates, and Booking.com or bstatic image URLs
• requestedUrl, final sourceUrl, proxyConfigured, and scrapedAt provenance

Missing source values are omitted. The Actor never invents prices or availability. Booking.com content varies by locale, dates, and source-page experiments, so results are research data rather than a reservation quote.

Input

Provide one to 20 public HTTPS Booking.com hotel or search-result URLs. Runs are bounded to 10 pages and 100 unique accommodations. Apify Proxy is enabled by default in Cloud runs and can be configured with the standard proxy editor.

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.booking.com/hotel/vn/vacances-house.en-gb.html"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeRooms": true,
  "requestDelayMs": 500,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Only /hotel/... and /searchresults.html paths on booking.com are accepted. Unknown fields and off-scope URLs fail before any request is made.

Access challenges and empty results

Booking.com may return a WAF, CAPTCHA, or other access challenge. Such events are not emitted as dataset rows. Instead, the OUTPUT key contains a bounded diagnostics array and counts, while the dataset remains reserved for successful accommodation records. A blocked-only run is explicitly labeled BLOCKED, and a source-error-only run is labeled FAILED; neither is a successful empty scrape.

Responsible use

Use conservative limits and delays, follow Booking.com terms and robots guidance, and process public data only for lawful purposes. Do not use this Actor to automate bookings or access account-only information.

Local validation

Run npm test, validate the schemas with apify validate-schema, then execute a bounded sample with apify run --purge --input-file qa-inputs/simple-booking-scraper/local-validation.json. Inspect both the default dataset and the OUTPUT key.