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RUN · 184 active pipelines · ctrip.com live

Ctrip travel data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight availability, hotel room rates, train schedules, and user reviews from Ctrip. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Flights extracted
1.2M /day
Hotel rates
4.8M /24h
Train schedules
312K /run
Active pipelines
184
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from ctrip.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Flights objects from ctrip.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_idairlineflight_numberdeparture_airportarrival_airportdeparture_timearrival_timedurationaircraft_typecabin_classpricecurrencyavailable_seatsstops
flights
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "CZ3099",
"airline": "China Southern Airlines",
"departure_airport": "PEK",
"arrival_airport": "SHA",
"price": 1250.0,
"currency": "CNY",
"cabin_class": "Economy",
"available_seats": 9
# flight_idairlineflight_numberdeparture_airportarrival_airportdeparture_time
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Complete list of extractable fields for Hotels objects from ctrip.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

hotel_idnamestar_ratinglocationcitylatitudelongituderoom_typebed_typebreakfast_includedcancellation_policyprice_per_nightcurrencyavailabilityreview_scorereview_count
hotels
● 200 OK
"hotel_id": "HTL8892",
"name": "The Peninsula Shanghai",
"star_rating": 5,
"city": "Shanghai",
"room_type": "Deluxe River View",
"price_per_night": 4200.0,
"currency": "CNY",
"review_score": 4.8,
"breakfast_included": true
# hotel_idnamestar_ratinglocationcitylatitude
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Complete list of extractable fields for Trains objects from ctrip.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

train_numbertrain_typedeparture_stationarrival_stationdeparture_timearrival_timedurationseat_classpricecurrencytickets_leftdate
trains
● 200 OK
"train_number": "G12",
"train_type": "High-Speed",
"departure_station": "Shanghai Hongqiao",
"arrival_station": "Beijing South",
"duration": "4h 28m",
"seat_class": "First Class",
"price": 933.0,
"tickets_left": 14
# train_numbertrain_typedeparture_stationarrival_stationdeparture_timearrival_time
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews objects from ctrip.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idtarget_idtarget_typeuser_nameuser_levelratingtravel_typedate_postedreview_textimages_attachedhelpful_votes
reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV99281",
"target_id": "HTL8892",
"rating": 5.0,
"user_level": "Ctrip Diamond",
"travel_type": "Business",
"date_posted": "2026-03-14",
"review_text": "Excellent service and location.",
"helpful_votes": 12
# review_idtarget_idtarget_typeuser_nameuser_levelrating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Buses & Transfers objects from ctrip.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

route_idoperatordeparture_cityarrival_citydeparture_stationarrival_stationdeparture_timearrival_timevehicle_typepricecurrencyseats_available
buses_& transfers
● 200 OK
"route_id": "BUS441",
"operator": "Shanghai Long-Distance",
"departure_city": "Shanghai",
"arrival_city": "Hangzhou",
"departure_time": "08:30",
"price": 75.0,
"currency": "CNY",
"seats_available": 22
# route_idoperatordeparture_cityarrival_citydeparture_stationarrival_station
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Capabilities

Complete travel intelligence from Ctrip

Our Ctrip scraper targets every vertical of the platform: flight schedules, dynamic hotel pricing, high-speed rail networks, and user reviews. Built with advanced session management and proxy rotation to bypass regional blocks.

Flight Availability & Pricing

Extract live flight schedules, cabin classes, and dynamic pricing across domestic and international routes.

Hotel Inventory Tracking

Monitor room availability, rate changes, and cancellation policies for millions of properties globally.

High-Speed Rail Schedules

Capture real-time train timetables, seat availability, and fare classes for China's railway network.

User Review Extraction

Scrape hotel and attraction reviews, including text, ratings, traveler types, and Ctrip Diamond member status.

Multi-Currency Normalisation

Extract pricing in CNY, USD, or local currencies and normalise against base rates for consistent analysis.

Bus & Transfer Routes

Map intercity bus schedules, operator details, and ticket availability across regional hubs.

Attraction Ticketing

Track pricing, availability, and bundle deals for theme parks, museums, and local tours.

Dynamic Pricing Detection

Identify surge pricing, member-only discounts, and promotional rates applied during peak booking windows.

Scheduled Pipeline Execution

Run extraction pipelines at hourly intervals to catch fast-moving inventory changes before holidays.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide route lists, city pairs, or hotel IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA handling for ctrip.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Ctrip pipeline handles the hard parts

Ctrip deploys aggressive rate limiting and regional pricing models. Here is how we maintain data integrity at scale.

pipeline-monitor · ctrip.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Geo-targeted proxy rotation

Ctrip deploys aggressive rate limiting and IP bans. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies localized to mainland China and global regions, with realistic browser fingerprints to evade detection.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic grids

Ctrip's flight and hotel search results rely heavily on client-side rendering. We run full Playwright browser sessions to hydrate dynamic pricing grids and capture data that headless HTTP clients miss.

Session management
Stateless requests for baseline pricing

Pricing often varies based on user session and origin IP. We manage stateless requests and localized headers to ensure base public pricing is captured accurately without user-specific bias.

High-frequency polling
Sub-minute execution for peak seasons

Flight and train tickets sell out in minutes during Golden Week. Our infrastructure supports sub-minute polling intervals for specific high-value routes without triggering security blocks.

Schema stability
Multi-layer fallback chains

Travel OTAs update their DOM frequently to deter scraping. We implement multi-layer fallback chains using XPath, CSS, and API interception to ensure pipeline continuity.

Applications

Who uses Ctrip data - and how

Teams across industries use ctrip.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Parity Monitoring

Hotels and airlines track Ctrip listings to ensure pricing consistency across OTAs and direct channels.

02
Competitor Intelligence

Travel agencies analyse route coverage, pricing strategies, and promotional discounts offered by competitors.

03
Demand Forecasting

Hedge funds and analysts track hotel availability and flight search volume as leading indicators for macroeconomic travel trends.

04
Dynamic Repricing

Boutique hotels monitor local market rates to adjust their own inventory pricing in real time.

05
Sentiment Analysis

Hospitality groups aggregate user reviews to monitor brand reputation and identify service issues.

06
Route Planning

Transport operators analyse intercity train and bus schedules to optimise their own network coverage.

Why DataFlirt

"Ctrip controls the largest inventory of Asian travel data globally. Accessing its raw pricing and schedule signals is mandatory for competitive travel intelligence."

Extracting data from Ctrip requires bypassing sophisticated geo-blocking, dynamic JavaScript rendering, and aggressive rate limits. DataFlirt manages the residential proxy networks, CAPTCHA solvers, and DOM maintenance required to deliver clean travel data at scale, allowing your team to focus entirely on pricing models and market analysis.

Technical Spec

Ctrip scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our ctrip.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions for dynamic pricing and inventory grids
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade IPs from China and global pools
Supported
API interception
Capture raw JSON payloads from Ctrip internal network requests
Supported
Multi-currency extraction
Capture local and normalised currency values
Supported
High-frequency polling
Sub-minute execution for fast-moving inventory
Supported
Review pagination
Extract full historical review corpus for properties
Supported
Change detection
Emit only inventory or price changes since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST for real-time pricing alerts
Supported
Ctrip Diamond Member pricing
Requires authenticated session to view tier-specific discounts
Partial
User booking history
Personalised itinerary and past purchase data
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Ctrip pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusBigQuerySnowflake
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows for dynamic travel grids.

Geo-Targeted Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across mainland China, APAC, and Western regions to capture localised pricing and avoid regional blocks.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for non-technical business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
RESTful endpoint to query extracted datasets on demand
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About ctrip.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Ctrip legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and schedule data is generally permissible. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated information. We do not extract personal user data or bypass authentication walls. Clients should review Ctrip's ToS and consult legal counsel.

How do you handle Ctrip's anti-bot mechanisms?

We utilise geo-targeted residential proxies, realistic browser fingerprinting via Playwright, and randomised request intervals. This ensures our traffic mimics legitimate user behaviour, bypassing IP bans and CAPTCHAs.

Can you extract localised pricing?

Yes. By routing requests through specific regional proxies, we capture localised pricing and inventory differences presented to users in different geographies.

How fresh is the flight and hotel data?

For specific routes or properties, we configure high-frequency pipelines that poll every few minutes. Full catalogue sweeps are typically executed on a daily or weekly cadence.

Do you capture Ctrip train schedules?

Yes. We extract comprehensive timetables, seat availability, and pricing for high-speed and conventional rail networks across China and supported international routes.

What happens when Ctrip changes its website layout?

Our selector strategy uses multi-layer fallback chains and API interception. If the DOM changes, our automated monitoring flags schema drift, and our engineers update the pipeline before data delivery is impacted.

Can I get historical pricing data?

We maintain a time-series record of all extracted data from the moment your pipeline is commissioned. We build net-new pipelines and do not sell pre-existing historical datasets.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ctrip.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need continuous price parity monitoring or a daily feed of flight schedules - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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