SYSTEM all green source hotels.com queue 18,402 properties p99 latency 187ms dataflirt.com · scraper/hotels-com
RUN * 112 active pipelines * hotels.com live

Accommodation data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract property details, dynamic room rates, availability calendars, and guest reviews from Hotels.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Properties extracted
1.2M /month
Rate updates
8.4M /24h
Review records
412K /run
Active pipelines
112
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from hotels.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Property Listings objects from hotels.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idnametypestar_ratingaddresscitycountrylatitudelongitudetotal_reviewsguest_ratingimage_urlscheck_in_timecheck_out_time
property_listings
● 200 OK
"property_id": "ho123456",
"name": "The Ritz-Carlton",
"star_rating": 5.0,
"guest_rating": 9.4,
"city": "London",
"total_reviews": 1402
# property_idnametypestar_ratingaddresscity
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Complete list of extractable fields for Room Rates & Availability objects from hotels.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idroom_idroom_namecheck_in_datecheck_out_dateadultschildrenprice_per_nighttotal_pricecurrencyrefundablebreakfast_includedleft_in_stock
room_rates & availability
● 200 OK
"room_name": "Deluxe King Room",
"price_per_night": 450.0,
"currency": "GBP",
"refundable": false,
"breakfast_included": true,
"left_in_stock": 3
# property_idroom_idroom_namecheck_in_datecheck_out_dateadults
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Complete list of extractable fields for Guest Reviews objects from hotels.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idproperty_idauthorratingstay_datereview_titlereview_texttrip_typeroom_type_stayedhelpful_votes
guest_reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev9876",
"rating": 10.0,
"stay_date": "2023-10-12",
"trip_type": "Couples",
"review_title": "Exceptional service",
"helpful_votes": 12
# review_idproperty_idauthorratingstay_datereview_title
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Complete list of extractable fields for Amenities & Facilities objects from hotels.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idcategoryamenity_nameis_freeis_on_sitedescriptionrestricted_hourssurcharge_amount
amenities_& facilities
● 200 OK
"category": "Pool",
"amenity_name": "Indoor Pool",
"is_free": true,
"is_on_site": true,
"restricted_hours": "06:00-22:00",
"surcharge_amount": 0
# property_idcategoryamenity_nameis_freeis_on_sitedescription
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from hotels.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

search_querycheck_incheck_outpositionproperty_idnamedisplay_priceoriginal_pricediscount_pctbadge_textsponsored
search_results
● 200 OK
"search_query": "Paris",
"position": 1,
"name": "Hotel Lutetia",
"display_price": 650.0,
"sponsored": false,
"badge_text": "VIP Access"
# search_querycheck_incheck_outpositionproperty_idname
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Hotels.com

Our pipeline handles dynamic date payloads, geographic price discrimination, and aggressive anti-bot layers to deliver structured accommodation data at scale.

Full Property Metadata

Extract property name, exact location, descriptions, star ratings, and high-resolution image URLs across millions of listings.

Dynamic Pricing Engine

Capture exact room rates based on specific check-in and check-out dates, guest counts, and room configurations.

Availability Tracking

Monitor inventory levels and capture low-stock indicators to gauge booking velocity for specific properties.

Review Corpus Extraction

Paginate through all guest reviews, capturing text, ratings, trip types, and helpful vote counts.

Amenity Mapping

Extract structured lists of pools, parking, wifi, accessibility features, and on-site dining options.

Policy Extraction

Capture cancellation windows, pet policies, deposit requirements, and hidden fee structures.

Geolocation Coordinates

Extract exact latitude and longitude data for spatial analysis and map-based application development.

Multi-Currency Support

Extract rates in local currency or force normalisation to USD, EUR, or GBP via session headers.

VIP Access & Badging

Capture property status markers like VIP Access, 'Fabulous', or 'Exceptional' promotional tags.

Scheduled Crawls

Run daily or hourly pipelines to monitor price volatility and rate adjustments over time.

// engagement pipeline

From target cities to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide destination cities, property IDs, or specific dates. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, residential proxy rotation, and GraphQL payload interception for Hotels.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

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

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Hotels.com pipeline handles the hard parts

Expedia Group invests heavily in bot mitigation. Here is how we maintain data flow.

pipeline-monitor · hotels.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
Residential proxies + Datadome bypass

Hotels.com uses aggressive bot protection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full TLS spoofing to bypass WAF challenges.

Dynamic payloads
GraphQL API interception

Room rates are not in the static HTML. We intercept and reverse-engineer the underlying GraphQL API calls, injecting your specific date and guest parameters to extract clean JSON responses.

Geographic pricing
Localised exit nodes

Prices on Hotels.com often change based on the user's IP location. We route requests through specific geographic proxy pools to capture the exact rates shown to users in your target markets.

Schema stability
API contract monitoring

The Hotels.com frontend undergoes constant A/B testing. By targeting the underlying API endpoints rather than fragile DOM elements, we ensure your data pipeline remains stable during UI updates.

Monitoring
Null-rate alerting on price fields

Missing price data ruins analysis. We monitor extraction payloads in real time, alerting on null-rate spikes and automatically retrying failed requests before delivery.

Applications

Who uses Hotels.com data

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

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Rate Parity Monitoring

OTAs and hotel chains monitor listings to ensure properties do not offer cheaper rates on competing platforms.

02
Revenue Management

Hotel operators track competitor pricing across specific date ranges to adjust their own daily rates.

03
Market Supply Analysis

Real estate investors track total room inventory and availability metrics in target cities.

04
Sentiment Analysis

Hospitality groups aggregate review text to identify operational flaws and track guest satisfaction trends.

05
Travel Aggregation

Meta-search engines build comprehensive inventory databases to power their own flight and hotel comparison tools.

06
Dynamic Repricing Models

Algorithmic pricing engines ingest local market rates to adjust property prices based on local compression.

Why DataFlirt

"Hotels.com holds the definitive graph of global accommodation inventory and dynamic pricing, but accessing it requires navigating aggressive anti-bot systems."

Extracting travel data at scale is a constant battle against rate limits, dynamic payloads, and geographic price discrimination. DataFlirt manages the residential proxy rotation, GraphQL payload reverse-engineering, and session handling so your data team receives clean, normalised parquet files instead of HTTP 403 errors.

Technical Spec

Hotels.com scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for initial token generation
Supported
WAF bypass
Automated handling of Datadome and Akamai bot protection
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs routed to match target market locales
Supported
Multi-currency capture
Extraction of rates in local or specified fiat currencies
Supported
Specific check-in/out dates
Dynamic injection of custom date ranges into API payloads
Supported
Review pagination
Full extraction of all historical guest reviews per property
Supported
GraphQL interception
Direct extraction from backend APIs for maximum stability
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing to only emit changed price records
Supported
One Key member pricing
Loyalty program discounts requiring authenticated user sessions
Partial
User booking history
Extraction of past itineraries and personal booking data
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Hotels.com 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 token generation and session initialization before handing off to lightweight HTTP clients.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions, ensuring requests originate from the correct geographic location to capture accurate local pricing.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on Kubernetes clusters. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state is 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 structures
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible exports for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time processing
API
Queryable REST endpoints for extracted data
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflows
PostgreSQL
Direct database inserts
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Hotels.com legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Hotels.com is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated property, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you bypass their anti-bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, realistic browser fingerprints, and automated solvers. For pricing data, we intercept the underlying GraphQL APIs rather than scraping the DOM, which reduces block rates significantly.

Can you extract prices for specific dates and guest counts?

Yes. You provide the parameters (check-in, check-out, adults, children), and we inject those into the request payloads to extract the exact rates.

Do prices change based on the IP address location?

Yes. Hotels.com frequently uses geographic price discrimination. We route requests through proxy nodes in your specified target country to capture accurate local pricing.

How fresh is the pricing data?

We can configure pipelines to run daily, hourly, or on custom intervals. For specific property sets, we can achieve sub-15-minute latency.

Do you extract One Key member prices?

No. Extracting loyalty pricing requires authenticated sessions, which violates our policy of only extracting publicly available data.

Can you pull all historical reviews for a property?

Yes. We paginate through the entire review history, capturing ratings, text, and metadata for every available guest review.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagement typically starts at a defined list of 1,000 properties or specific destination cities with daily delivery. Contact us for a precise quote.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=hotels.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 a daily price feed for 5,000 properties or a complete review extraction across Europe, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.

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