Travel hotel scraping

Skill thirdwatch-dev/scraping-skills/skills/travel-hotel-scraping

Use when you need travel and hospitality data — hotels, vacation rentals, attractions, or car-sharing listings with their prices, ratings, reviews, availability, star levels, and amenities. Covers Booking.com, Trip.com/Ctrip, TripAdvisor, and Turo. Use for rate and price monitoring, competitive pricing analysis, availability tracking, and review/ranking tracking. Triggers on "scrape hotels", "hotel prices", "hotel rates", "travel data", "car rental", "hotel availability", "TripAdvisor rankings", "Booking.com scraper".From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add thirdwatch-dev/scraping-skills --skill travel-hotel-scraping

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reads credentialsReads from 1 credential source: `YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN`.
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runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 1 command, including `curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~booking-hotel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "destination": "Lisbon", "chec`.
fetches URLsInstructs the agent to fetch 1 URL, including https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~booking-hotel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN.

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Travel & Hotel Scraping

Getting prices, ratings, availability, and amenities off travel and hospitality sites — hotels, rentals, attractions, and car-sharing marketplaces. Typical jobs: rate/price monitoring, competitive pricing, availability tracking, and review/ranking tracking.

The reality: OTAs are anti-bot-heavy

Online travel agencies are among the hardest targets on the web. Booking.com fronts its pages with AWS WAF; TripAdvisor runs aggressive anti-bot defenses; Trip.com/Ctrip and Turo render most pricing client-side. Plain HTTP almost always gets a challenge page, so the common working path is a stealth browser (Camoufox) + residential proxy — see anti-bot-scraping for the bypass details.

The fields that matter across these sites are consistent: name, price (often per night), rating, review count, location, star level, and amenities — plus availability for given dates and guest counts.

Ready-made scrapers

Anti-bot maintenance on these targets is constant. Before building, check whether a maintained scraper already covers what you need. Each is billed pay-per-result (free tier included):

Target	Scraper	From	Notes
Booking.com	Booking.com Hotels	$0.008/result	prices/ratings/amenities by destination + dates + guests
Trip.com / Ctrip	Trip.com / Ctrip Hotels	$0.02/result	nightly prices, ratings, availability
TripAdvisor	TripAdvisor	$0.008/result	hotels/restaurants/attractions, rankings, reviews
Turo	Turo	$0.008/result	car-rental marketplace, daily/weekly/monthly pricing, host info

Run one

Each scraper runs from the command line and returns JSON rows. Example with the Booking.com scraper:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~booking-hotel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "destination": "Lisbon",
    "checkIn": "2026-08-01",
    "checkOut": "2026-08-04",
    "guests": 2,
    "maxResults": 25
  }'

Get a free token at console.apify.com. Exact input fields are on each actor's Store page — the snippet above is illustrative.

Build your own

If no maintained scraper fits, or you want to own the code:

web-scraping-playbook — the build-vs-buy decision and the cost-first technique ladder (HTTP → TLS spoof → stealth browser).
anti-bot-scraping — concrete bypasses for the AWS WAF / DataDome / Turnstile defenses these OTAs use.
apify-actor-builder — package your scraper as a deployable, monetizable Apify Actor.

Maintained by Thirdwatch. 70+ ready-made scrapers on the Apify Store.

What ships with it

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