Google Hotels Scraper

Google Hotels API for Python

Get hotel prices from Google Hotels into Python for any city and dates: the nightly price, the total for your stay with taxes and fees, Google's deal note ("23% less than usual"), guest rating, review count, star class, amenities and coordinates. Google Hotels compares booking sites and the hotels' own websites, so one search gives you the going rate.

Google has no public API for reading hotel prices. Its hotel APIs are for travel partners that send their prices to Google. These examples use a hosted scraper instead, the Google Hotels Scraper on Apify, through the official Python client.

[Median hotel price per night in 8 European cities]

Example output: the median price per night of the first 20 hotels Google shows in 8 cities, for 2 adults on the weekend of 13 to 15 November 2026. Made with examples/compare_cities.py.

Quick start

1. Create a free Apify account. The free plan includes $5 of credit every month, which covers more than 1,000 hotel prices. No credit card needed.
2. Copy your API token from Settings > API & Integrations in Apify Console.
3. Run an example:

pip install -r requirements.txtexport APIFY_TOKEN=your-token        # Windows: set APIFY_TOKEN=your-tokenpython examples/search_hotels.py

hotel                                      stars rating  a night, all-inThe Central House Lisbon Baixa                 2    4.3           53 EURLisbon Wine House - Rooms & Suites             3    3.7           68 EURNext Level Premium Hotels Lisbon               3    4.7           76 EURNovotel Lisboa                                 4      4           83 EUR...Saved 20 hotels to hotels.csv

Examples

sample-output/hotels-lisbon-2026-11-13.csv shows the CSV from search_hotels.py.

Finding the cheapest weekend

cheapest_weekend.py for Amsterdam, run on 10 October 2026:

Fri 16 Oct to Sun 18 Oct: median EUR 191, cheapest EUR 97 a nightFri 23 Oct to Sun 25 Oct: median EUR 302, cheapest EUR 28 a nightFri 30 Oct to Sun 01 Nov: median EUR 140, cheapest EUR 88 a nightFri 06 Nov to Sun 08 Nov: median EUR 177, cheapest EUR 104 a nightFri 13 Nov to Sun 15 Nov: median EUR 135, cheapest EUR 96 a nightFri 20 Nov to Sun 22 Nov: median EUR 133, cheapest EUR 89 a nightFri 27 Nov to Sun 29 Nov: median EUR 141, cheapest EUR 86 a nightFri 04 Dec to Sun 06 Dec: median EUR 132, cheapest EUR 78 a night
Cheapest weekend: 04 December (median EUR 132 a night, taxes included)

The weekend of 23 October costs more than twice as much as the cheapest one. That's the Amsterdam Dance Event, which runs from 21 to 25 October.

What you get per hotel

• pricePerNight as Google shows it, and totalPrice for the whole stay with taxes and fees, plus totalPriceBeforeTaxes and taxesAndFees when Google shows the split
• dealText, such as "23% less than usual"
• rating, reviewCount, hotelClass (stars) and propertyType (hotel, hostel, vacation rental and so on)
• amenities, description, checkInTime and checkOutTime
• latitude, longitude, website, googleHotelsUrl and googleMapsUrl
• hotelId, Google's id for the property, to match hotels across runs

Good to know

• Taxes: Google shows US visitors nightly prices before taxes, and most other markets prices with taxes. For prices you can compare, use totalPrice / nights, as the examples do.
• About 20 hotels per search: that's Google's first page. For more hotels in a city, add searches such as hotels in Amsterdam Jordaan or hotels near Amsterdam Centraal.
• Relative dates: 30 days and 32 days keep scheduled runs pointing at the future. To track one stay over time, use fixed dates instead.
• Market: the country input (Google's gl setting) decides which booking sites Google compares, and prices can differ between markets.
• How it works: the scraper loads the same Google Hotels search page you see in a browser, without a browser, reads the hotel list from the data in the page, and retries from fresh residential IPs when Google blocks a request.

Other options

• SerpApi has a Google Hotels endpoint, with a monthly subscription.
• Booking sites' own APIs are usually only for partners and affiliates, and only cover their own prices.

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

To let Claude, Cursor, VS Code or another MCP client look up hotel prices for you, add this MCP server URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ralfij/google-hotels-scraper. Sign in to Apify when the client asks, or send your Apify API token as Authorization: Bearer <token>. Runs are billed to your own Apify account.

Notes

• I built the Google Hotels Scraper used in these examples, so keep that in mind.
• Pricing is per hotel with no subscription; see the actor page.
• It returns business data only. Guest reviews and reviewer names are left out on purpose.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. Google Hotels is a trademark of Google LLC.

License

MIT