Hostelworld Hostels, Rooms & Reviews Finder

Scrape Hostelworld city inventories, full property profiles, dated dorm and private prices, room rate plans and reviews in every language. Six modes cover destination search, pasted URLs or IDs, country city indexes, availability summaries, room-level rate rows and review exports. No login, cookies, API key or proxy configuration is required.

What this actor does

• Six modes: search, byUrl, topCities, availability, rooms and reviews
• Complete city inventories with full pagination, so a 300-property city is no longer cut off at 30 rows
• Dated pricing for dorms and private rooms, including beds available and per-room rate plans
• All-language reviews with sort, date cutoff, score band, owner replies and reviewer metadata
• Filters and sorting by property type, rating, price, distance, free cancellation, price/rating/review count/distance order
• Currency and language selection across 80+ currencies and 19 Hostelworld locales
• Empty fields are omitted at every depth, so records never carry null, "", [] or {}

Output per hostel (recordType: "hostel")

Identity and location:

• propertyId, slug, name, type, hostelworldUrl
• address, address1, address2, city, country, continent, district, districts[], region, postalCode
• latitude, longitude, distanceToCenter (km)

Ratings:

• rating — overall score on Hostelworld's 0–10 scale
• ratingBreakdown — atmosphere, cleanliness, facilities, location, security, staff and value for money, 0–10
• ratingPercent, ratingBreakdownPercent — the same scores on the raw 0–100 scale
• ratingLabel, reviewCount, starRating, bestFor[]

Prices:

• pricePerNight, currencyCode
• lowestDormPricePerNight, lowestPrivatePricePerNight, averagePricePerNight, originalPricePerNight, discountPercent
• promotions[], propertyPrices — native-currency shared/private min, max and average
• freeCancellation, freeCancellationUntil, depositPercentage

Profile and policy:

• description, hostelworldSays, directions
• amenities[], facilitiesByCategory[], policies[], thingsToNote[], paymentMethods[]
• checkinTime, checkoutTime, maxGuestsPerBooking, timesBookedToday, taxesIncluded, feesIncluded

Media and availability:

• imageUrl, imageUrls[], imageCount
• dormAvailable, privateRoomAvailable
• With dates: checkInDate, nights, guests, bedsAvailable, dormTypesAvailable, privateTypesAvailable, cancellationOptions[], vat
• scrapedAt

Output per room (recordType: "room")

• propertyId, name, hostelworldUrl, city, country
• checkInDate, nights, guests
• roomId, roomName, roomDescription, roomCategory (dorm or private), roomType, roomGrade
• capacity, ensuite, bedsAvailable, roomsAvailable
• ratePlanId, ratePlanType, ratePlanCount, paymentOption, paymentOptionId, isDefaultRatePlan, paymentOptions[], cheapestPaymentOption
• pricePerNight, lowestPricePerNight, averagePricePerNight, originalPricePerNight, discountPercent, totalPrice, originalTotalPrice, currencyCode
• roomImages[], scrapedAt

Private-room prices are for the whole room; dorm prices are per bed. pricePerNight is the selected rate-plan price, while lowestPricePerNight is the room's advertised minimum and can be lower than every listed rate plan. The hostel row reports the city-wide lowest dorm bed price as lowestDormPricePerNight.

Output per review (recordType: "review")

• propertyId, name, hostelworldUrl, city, country
• reviewId, reviewDate, reviewText, reviewLanguage, isMachineTranslated, ownerComment
• groupType, ageGroup, tripTypes[]
• ratingOverall, ratingValueForMoney, ratingSafety, ratingLocation, ratingStaff, ratingAtmosphere, ratingCleanliness, ratingFacilities — review scores on a 0–100 scale
• reviewerNickname, reviewerCountry, reviewerCountryCode, reviewerGender, reviewerNumberOfReviews
• scrapedAt

Output per city (recordType: "city", mode topCities)

• cityId, cityName, country, continent
• hostelworldUrl, imageUrl
• numberOfProperties, numberOfReviews, avgRating
• scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byUrl / topCities / availability / rooms / reviews
searchQueries	array	–	City or destination names (search, availability, rooms, reviews)
countries	array	–	Country names for topCities, or to expand a search when no city is set
propertyUrls	array	–	Hostelworld property, city or search URLs
propertyIds	array	–	Numeric Hostelworld property IDs
dateFrom	string	–	Check-in date, YYYY-MM-DD
dateTo	string	–	Check-out date, YYYY-MM-DD; maximum 30 nights
daysAhead	integer	–	Check in this many days from today (alternative to dateFrom)
numNights	integer	2	Stay length when only dateFrom or daysAhead is set
guests	integer	2	Party size for availability and room prices
currency	string	EUR	Price currency (80+ ISO codes)
language	string	en	Hostelworld locale (19 options)
propertyType	string	all	all / hostel / hotel / guesthouse / apartment / campsite
minRating	number	–	Minimum overall rating on the 0–10 scale
minPrice	number	–	Minimum nightly price in the selected currency
maxPrice	number	–	Maximum nightly price in the selected currency
maxDistanceKm	number	–	Maximum distance from the city centre
freeCancellationOnly	boolean	false	Keep only properties with free-cancellation rates
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance / priceLow / priceHigh / ratingHigh / reviewCount / distance
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch full profiles (facilities, policies, images, directions)
includeReviews	boolean	false	Add review rows in search and byUrl modes
reviewsPerProperty	integer	10	Review cap per property
reviewsSort	string	-date	-date / date / rating / -rating
allLanguages	boolean	true	Include reviews in every language
sinceDate	string	–	Only reviews on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD
reviewRatingMin	integer	–	Minimum review score on the 0–100 scale
reviewRatingMax	integer	–	Maximum review score on the 0–100 scale
requireReviewText	boolean	false	Drop score-only reviews
roomCategory	string	all	all / dorm / private
maxItems	integer	50	Hard cap on hostel rows (1–5000)

Examples

Example: search a city with dated prices

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["London"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-12-20",
  "dateTo": "2026-12-22",
  "guests": 2,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "minRating": 8,
  "sortBy": "priceLow",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: full profiles for pasted properties

{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "propertyUrls": [
    "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/88047/wombat-s-city-hostel-london/",
    "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/14348/palmers-lodge-swiss-cottage/"
  ],
  "includeDetails": true
}

Example: dated room and rate-plan rows

{
  "mode": "rooms",
  "propertyIds": ["88047", "14348"],
  "dateFrom": "2027-02-10",
  "numNights": 2,
  "guests": 2,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "roomCategory": "private"
}

Example: all-language reviews since a date

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "searchQueries": ["Bangkok"],
  "reviewsPerProperty": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "-date",
  "allLanguages": true,
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
  "requireReviewText": true,
  "maxItems": 5
}

Example: country city index

{
  "mode": "topCities",
  "countries": ["Portugal"],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Use cases

• Hostel price comparison — pull dated dorm and private prices for the same city and stay
• Travel content and directories — build city inventories with facilities, policies, images and geo data
• Review analytics — export multilingual review text with ratings, trip type, age group and country
• Revenue and rate research — compare room-level rate plans, discounts and cancellation terms
• Market mapping — measure hostel supply, ratings and review volume across countries and cities
• App and dashboard feeds — join flat hostel, room, review and city rows on propertyId

FAQ

Do I need a Hostelworld account, cookie or API key? No. The actor reads public Hostelworld data and works without any account, cookie, token or proxy setup.

Why did my old searchQuery input keep working after the schema changed? Saved tasks that still send searchQuery are mapped to the first city in searchQueries, so old inputs continue to run.

How many hostels can one city return? The full city inventory is fetched, not just the first page. maxItems is the only cap, up to 5,000 hostel rows.

Why are there two rating scales? The legacy rating and ratingBreakdown fields stay on Hostelworld's 0–10 scale. ratingPercent and ratingBreakdownPercent expose the raw 0–100 values. Review scores are reported on 0–100.

Do dates change the prices? Yes. With dateFrom and dateTo (or daysAhead), hostel rows carry that stay's lowest dorm and private prices, beds available and cancellation options. Without dates, listing prices are returned and availability fields are omitted.

How do room rows differ from hostel rows? Hostel rows give one summary per property. Room rows give one row per room and rate plan, with capacity, ensuite flag, beds, room images, payment option and per-night plus total prices. Dorm prices are per bed; private-room prices are for the whole room. lowestPricePerNight shows the room's advertised minimum when a cheaper unlisted rate exists.

Can I get reviews in languages other than English? Yes. allLanguages is on by default. Use reviewsSort, sinceDate, reviewRatingMin, reviewRatingMax and requireReviewText to narrow the export.

Why is a field missing on some records? Hostelworld does not publish every field for every property. Missing values are omitted rather than filled with placeholders, so check for the field's presence.

What happens when a property has no availability for my dates? The property is skipped in rooms mode. In other modes it is returned with its profile and sold-out availability flags, but without a dated price, and the run status explains the shortfall.

Is this affiliated with Hostelworld? No. This is an independent third-party actor and is not operated by or affiliated with Hostelworld.