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RUN : 14 active pipelines : toursbylocals.com live

Toursbylocals data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract guide profiles, detailed tour itineraries, dynamic pricing, and review corpora from Toursbylocals. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Tours extracted
34,291 /run
Guide profiles
6,104 /run
Review records
1.4M /run
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from toursbylocals.com

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

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

tour_idtitlelocationdurationactivity_levelmax_travelersprice_basecurrencyratingreview_countcategoriesimage_urlstour_url
tour_listings
● 200 OK
"tour_id": "T49281",
"title": "Kyoto Historical Highlights Full Day Tour",
"location": "Kyoto, Japan",
"duration": "8 hours",
"activity_level": "Moderate",
"max_travelers": 6,
"price_base": 450.0,
"currency": "USD",
"rating": 4.9,
"review_count": 142
# tour_idtitlelocationdurationactivity_levelmax_travelers
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Complete list of extractable fields for Guide Profiles objects from toursbylocals.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

guide_idnamelocationlanguagesbioresponse_timeratingreview_counttour_countprofile_urlavatar_url
guide_profiles
● 200 OK
"guide_id": "G8832",
"name": "Kenji M.",
"location": "Kyoto, Japan",
"languages": "['English', 'Japanese']",
"response_time": "Within 2 hours",
"rating": 5.0,
"review_count": 318,
"tour_count": 12
# guide_idnamelocationlanguagesbioresponse_time
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from toursbylocals.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idtour_idguide_idreviewer_namereview_dateratingreview_texttravel_dateresponse_text
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "R992140",
"tour_id": "T49281",
"guide_id": "G8832",
"reviewer_name": "Sarah Jenkins",
"review_date": "2026-03-14",
"rating": 5,
"review_text": "Kenji was fantastic. He navigated the crowds perfectly.",
"travel_date": "March 2026"
# review_idtour_idguide_idreviewer_namereview_daterating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Inclusions objects from toursbylocals.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

tour_idbase_priceextra_person_feemax_peoplecurrencyinclusionsexclusionscancellation_policyavailability_status
pricing_& inclusions
● 200 OK
"tour_id": "T49281",
"base_price": 450.0,
"extra_person_fee": 50.0,
"max_people": 6,
"currency": "USD",
"inclusions": "['Guide services', 'Local transport']",
"exclusions": "['Meals', 'Temple entrance fees']",
"cancellation_policy": "Standard"
# tour_idbase_priceextra_person_feemax_peoplecurrencyinclusions
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Complete list of extractable fields for Location Data objects from toursbylocals.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

location_idregioncountrycityport_nameactive_toursactive_guidescoordinatesdescription
location_data
● 200 OK
"location_id": "L104",
"region": "Asia",
"country": "Japan",
"city": "Kyoto",
"active_tours": 184,
"active_guides": 42,
"port_name": "None",
"description": "Ancient capital of Japan known for classical Buddhist temples."
# location_idregioncountrycityport_nameactive_tours
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Capabilities

Every itinerary, guide, and price point extracted

Our Toursbylocals scraper handles the complete catalogue of private tours, extracting complex pricing logic, availability calendars, and guide metadata with full JavaScript execution.

Full Itinerary Extraction

Capture daily schedules, meeting points, duration limits, and activity level classifications for every listed tour.

Guide Metadata

Extract guide bios, languages spoken, response times, active tour counts, and aggregate review scores across their entire portfolio.

Pricing Tier Logic

Scrape base pricing, extra person fees, maximum group sizes, and currency variants to model exact cost structures.

Review Mining

Extract full review text, travel dates, reviewer names, and guide responses paginated across all historical data.

Shore Excursion Mapping

Identify tours specifically mapped to cruise ports, including port pickup logistics and guarantee policies.

Availability Signals

Monitor calendar widgets to detect fully booked dates, seasonal closures, and high-demand windows.

Location Hierarchy

Map tours to specific regions, countries, and cities to build a complete geographical supply dataset.

Inclusions & Exclusions

Parse structured lists of what the tour price covers versus what requires out-of-pocket expenses.

Scheduled Diffs

Run continuous pipelines to detect new guide signups, new tour launches, and price adjustments over time.

// engagement pipeline

From target locations to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target regions, countries, or specific guide profiles. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management to navigate the Toursbylocals directory.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and pricing logic verification 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 pipeline handles travel directory extraction

Extracting structured travel data requires handling dynamic calendars and complex search pagination. We manage the infrastructure so you get clean tables.

pipeline-monitor · toursbylocals.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
Pagination handling
Deep crawl execution across regions

Travel directories often limit search results to a few hundred items. We traverse the site using geographical bounding boxes and sub-region filters to ensure 100 percent catalogue extraction without hitting pagination limits.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright execution for calendars

Availability calendars and dynamic pricing widgets require full JavaScript execution. We run headless browsers to trigger these elements and extract the underlying JSON responses.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Platform redesigns can break data feeds. We use multiple fallback chains per field, including CSS selectors, XPath, and JSON-LD parsing, to ensure pipeline continuity.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changes

For large global catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per tour. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing downstream processing load and storage bloat.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, schema drift, and coverage drops, responding before your downstream models are affected.

Applications

Who uses Toursbylocals data

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

01
Competitor Price Tracking

Online travel agencies monitor private tour pricing across regions to optimise their own marketplace margins.

02
Travel Aggregation

Itinerary planners and metasearch engines ingest guide profiles and tour details to enrich their own supply catalogues.

03
Market Research

Tourism boards analyse guide density, popular itineraries, and review sentiment to understand regional travel trends.

04
AI Itinerary Generation

Machine learning teams train language models on structured tour itineraries to build automated travel planning assistants.

05
Review Sentiment Analysis

Hospitality analysts mine review text to identify common complaints, highlight popular attractions, and score guide performance.

06
Supply Gap Analysis

Marketplace operators map existing guide locations against search demand to identify under-served cities and ports.

Why DataFlirt

"Toursbylocals contains the most detailed private itinerary data available, but extracting the complex pricing logic requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of travel data extraction. Reliable scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for calendars, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on product development rather than pipeline repairs.

Technical Spec

Toursbylocals scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for availability calendars and dynamic pricing widgets
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs rotated per request to avoid blocking
Supported
Review pagination
Extract all historical reviews, not just the recent subset
Supported
Category mapping
Extract tour themes like culinary, historical, or shore excursion
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffs to track price changes and new listings
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
Supported
Guide direct messages
Private communications between travelers and guides
Partial
Private booking history
Transaction records and payment details behind user login
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy and Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows for calendar widgets.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per request with sticky sessions where required to prevent blocks.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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 arrays versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for standard analysis
XLS
Excel compatible format for immediate business use
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets
Postgres
Direct database upserts with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Can you extract data for specific regions only?

Yes. We configure pipelines to target specific countries, cities, or cruise ports based on your exact requirements, reducing unnecessary data volume.

How do you handle variable pricing models?

Our schema captures base prices alongside extra person fees, maximum group sizes, and currency codes, allowing you to calculate exact costs for any group size.

Is review data extraction limited to recent entries?

No. We paginate through the entire review history for guides and tours, capturing dates, ratings, and full text for comprehensive sentiment analysis.

How often can the data be refreshed?

We support daily, weekly, or monthly refresh cadences. For large global catalogues, weekly runs provide an optimal balance of freshness and compute efficiency.

Do you extract guide availability?

We extract availability signals from public calendar widgets, identifying blocked dates and open booking windows for specific tours.

Can you track new guide signups?

Yes. By running scheduled diffs against the directory, we isolate new guide profiles and new tour listings published since the previous extraction run.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=toursbylocals.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 one-off catalogue dump or continuous tracking of guide profiles and pricing. Tell us what you need.

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