# Hostelworld Scraper - Hostel Prices & Ratings (`lulzasaur/hostelworld-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Hostelworld.com for hostel listings by city. Extract prices, ratings, reviews, property type, and images. Great for travel research, price comparison, and backpacker trip planning.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/hostelworld-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 13 total users, 3 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Hostelworld Scraper

Apify Actor for scraping Hostelworld.com hostel listings by city. Uses CheerioCrawler for fast, efficient HTML parsing.

### Features

- Search hostels in any city worldwide
- Extract prices, ratings, review counts, and property types
- Multi-page pagination support (~30 hostels per page)
- Currency selection (USD, EUR, GBP, etc.)
- Optional date filtering for availability-based pricing

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `cities` | string\[] | `["Los Angeles"]` | City names to search |
| `maxPages` | integer | `3` | Max pages per city (~30 hostels/page) |
| `maxListings` | integer | `100` | Max total listings (0=unlimited) |
| `currency` | string | `"USD"` | Currency code for prices |
| `dateFrom` | string | - | Check-in date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
| `dateTo` | string | - | Check-out date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | `{}` | Proxy settings (optional) |

#### Example Input

```json
{
    "cities": ["London", "Barcelona", "Bangkok"],
    "maxPages": 5,
    "maxListings": 200,
    "currency": "EUR"
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "name": "HI Los Angeles - Santa Monica",
    "url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/p/1851/hi-los-angeles-santa-monica/",
    "propertyId": "1851",
    "price": 19.38,
    "priceCurrency": "USD",
    "rating": 9.3,
    "ratingLabel": "Superb",
    "reviewCount": 6577,
    "propertyType": "Hostel",
    "imageUrl": "https://a.hwstatic.com/image/upload/...",
    "position": 0,
    "city": "Los Angeles",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-03T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Popular Cities

| City | Examples |
|------|---------|
| Europe | London, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin, Paris, Rome |
| Southeast Asia | Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, Manila |
| Americas | New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires |
| Oceania | Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland |

### How It Works

1. Builds search URLs for each city with optional date/currency params
2. Follows Hostelworld redirects to canonical city URLs
3. Parses property cards from SSR HTML (Nuxt 3)
4. Extracts names, prices, ratings, reviews, images, and property IDs
5. Automatically paginates through results pages

### Quick Start

```bash
apify run --purge
```

### Deploy to Apify

```bash
apify login
apify push
```

### Related Scrapers

More scrapers and data tools by [lulzasaur](https://apify.com/lulzasaur):

- [Craigslist Scraper](https://apify.com/lulzasaur/craigslist-scraper) — Classified listings
- [Redfin Scraper](https://apify.com/lulzasaur/redfin-scraper) — Real estate listings
- [StubHub Scraper](https://apify.com/lulzasaur/stubhub-scraper) — Event ticket prices
- [OfferUp Scraper](https://apify.com/lulzasaur/offerup-scraper) — Local marketplace
- [Reverb Scraper](https://apify.com/lulzasaur/reverb-scraper) — Music gear marketplace

# Actor input Schema

## `cities` (type: `array`):

List of city names to search for hostels (e.g., 'Los Angeles', 'London', 'Bangkok', 'Barcelona'). Each city produces a separate set of results.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of search result pages to scrape per city. Each page has ~30 hostels.

## `maxListings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total number of hostel listings to scrape across all cities. Set to 0 for unlimited.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency code for prices (e.g., USD, EUR, GBP, AUD).

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Check-in date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for default dates.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Check-out date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for default dates.

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

Proxy settings. Not required for basic scraping but recommended for large-scale runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cities": [
    "Los Angeles"
  ],
  "maxPages": 3,
  "maxListings": 100,
  "currency": "USD",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "cities": [
        "Los Angeles"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/hostelworld-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 = { "cities": ["Los Angeles"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/hostelworld-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 '{
  "cities": [
    "Los Angeles"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/hostelworld-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/hostelworld-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/5Mw61cKHtciwAd26X/builds/u0GjEvo5M455LNhRV/openapi.json