# Booking.com Scraper (`ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper`) Actor

Booking.com Scraper returns normalized, review-ready API data with robust inputs, consistent outputs, and pay-per-result pricing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Virtual Footprint LLC](https://apify.com/ayeeyee) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.68 / 1,000 listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Booking.com Hotel Search Scraper

Search Booking.com for a destination and date range and get back real hotel
listings scraped from the live search results page: name, address, distance
from center, price (when Booking.com shows one), review score, listing URL,
and thumbnail image.

### Why this uses a real browser

Booking.com puts an AWS WAF JavaScript challenge in front of non-browser
clients. Plain HTTP requests (curl, httpx, even curl\_cffi with Chrome TLS
impersonation) all get an HTTP 202 challenge page with no real content --
confirmed directly during development. A real headless browser that executes
JavaScript is required to pass the challenge and reach the actual results,
so this actor runs headless Chromium via Playwright rather than raw HTTP.

### Input

| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `query` | yes | Destination, e.g. `"Austin, TX"` |
| `checkin` | yes | Check-in date, `YYYY-MM-DD` |
| `checkout` | yes | Check-out date, `YYYY-MM-DD` |
| `adults` | no | Number of adult guests (default 2) |
| `rooms` | no | Number of rooms (default 1) |
| `maxResults` | no | Max listings to return (default 25, max 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | no | Apify Proxy config (recommended -- Booking.com blocks most datacenter IPs even for browser traffic) |

### Output

One dataset item per hotel listing:

```json
{
  "name": "The Driskill",
  "address": "604 Brazos Street, Downtown Austin, Austin, TX",
  "distanceFromCenter": "0.3 km from center",
  "price": 412.0,
  "priceAvailable": true,
  "priceRaw": "$412",
  "reviewScore": 8.9,
  "reviewScoreRaw": "8.9 Excellent",
  "url": "https://www.booking.com/hotel/us/the-driskill.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://cf.bstatic.com/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T18:02:11Z"
}
```

If Booking.com doesn't display a price for a listing on the search page (it
happens), `price` is `null` and `priceAvailable` is `false` -- this actor
never estimates a price it didn't actually see.

### Known limitations

- Booking.com's anti-bot defenses are aggressive and can occasionally block
  even browser-driven requests; if that happens the run returns a single
  diagnostic item explaining what page was actually reached instead of
  silently returning nothing.
- Selectors track Booking.com's current `data-testid` markup as of this
  build; if Booking.com changes their frontend, extraction may need updating.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Destination to search, e.g. 'Austin, TX' or a hotel/area name.

## `checkin` (type: `string`):

Check-in date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `checkout` (type: `string`):

Check-out date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `adults` (type: `integer`):

Number of adult guests.

## `rooms` (type: `integer`):

Number of rooms.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of hotel listings to return.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy settings. Required in practice -- Booking.com blocks most datacenter IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "adults": 2,
  "rooms": 1,
  "maxResults": 25,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ayeeyee/booking-com-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HM3mfAZcH4j5ngKaW/builds/tOxKtcZU4whWFnn4V/openapi.json