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Airbnb Scraper API in Python

Airbnb stay search for a place — title, type, nightly price, rating, reviews, beds and coordinates. One POST from Python with location, rows back as JSON with 35 fields, $0.001 per delivered stay. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the airbnb_stays collector returns one dict per stay, at $0.001 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/airbnb_stays/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "location": "Rome, Italy",
        "max_results": 18,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("listing_id"), row.get("title"), row.get("property_type"), row.get("name"))

Python: one Airbnb stays run (Case a Roma), printing listing_id, title, property_type, name

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Airbnb stays collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`location`	string	yes	City, region or neighbourhood, e.g. "Rome", "Rome, Italy" or "Brooklyn, New York". Resolved by Airbnb's own search, exactly as typing it into the site would.
`checkin`	string	no	Arrival date as YYYY-MM-DD. Must be given together with checkout; omit both to let Airbnb price each listing for its own suggested stay.
`checkout`	string	no	Departure date as YYYY-MM-DD. Must be after checkin.
`adults`	integer	no	Number of adult guests (1–16). Omit for Airbnb's default of one.
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 18)	How many stays to deliver at most (1–90). You pay only for delivered stays.

Response fields

35 fields per stay.

Fields of each row (stay)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	Position in Airbnb's order for this response. Airbnb re-ranks between requests, so this is not a stable property of the listing.
`listing_id`	string, nullable	Airbnb listing id — the number in the /rooms/ URL.
`title`	string, nullable	Card heading as Airbnb writes it, property type then area ("Apartment in Monti").
`property_type`	string, nullable	Property type taken from the head of the title ("Apartment", "Condo", "Penthouse"). Null when the title is not of that shape.
`name`	string, nullable	The host's own listing name.
`subtitle`	string, nullable	Card subtitle — usually the listing name, sometimes a short description.
`rating`	number, nullable	Average rating out of 5. Null on a listing with no reviews yet.
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Number of reviews.
`guest_favorite`	boolean	True when Airbnb badges the listing a Guest favorite.
`badges`	string[], nullable	Badge labels shown on the card, e.g. ["Guest favorite"], ["Superhost"] or ["Luxe"]. Airbnb's flexible-date chip shares the same list and is excluded — it is a date range, not a badge, and check_in/check_out already carry it.
`price_per_night`	number, nullable	Nightly rate as Airbnb states it in its own price breakdown ("5 nights x $741.37"), never total ÷ nights. When a stay discount is listed as its own line, this is the rate before that discount.
`price_total`	number, nullable	Price shown on the card for the whole stay, after any discount.
`price_original_total`	number, nullable	Struck-through stay total on a discounted card; null when the card is not discounted.
`price_text`	string, nullable	The price exactly as printed on the card, e.g. "$3,707".
`price_qualifier`	string, nullable	What the price covers, in Airbnb's words: "for 5 nights" or "night".
`nights`	integer, nullable	Nights the priced stay covers.
`currency`	string, nullable	ISO currency of the prices, from the symbol Airbnb printed. Airbnb prices in the exit country's currency; a bare "$" is reported as USD only on a US exit and left null elsewhere rather than guessed.
`free_cancellation`	boolean	True when the card carries Airbnb's free-cancellation highlight.
`beds`	integer, nullable	Beds, from the card's bed line ("3 beds", "4 double beds") — not the bedroom count.
`bedrooms`	integer, nullable	Bedrooms. Null on a studio, which Airbnb states in words.
`bathrooms`	number, nullable	Baths, halves included (1.5). Null when Airbnb states it in words ("Half-bath").
`bed_info`	string, nullable	The card's bed and bath line verbatim, e.g. "3 bedrooms, 3 beds, 2 baths".
`check_in`	string, nullable	Check-in the price covers (YYYY-MM-DD): the date you asked for, or the one Airbnb chose for this listing when you asked for none.
`check_out`	string, nullable	Check-out the price covers (YYYY-MM-DD).
`latitude`	number, nullable	Airbnb's approximate map point — it publishes a fuzzed location until a booking is confirmed, not the exact address.
`longitude`	number, nullable	Approximate longitude, as above.
`image`	string, nullable	First photo on the card.
`photo_count`	integer	Photos in the card's carousel — not the listing's full gallery.
`url`	string, nullable	Listing URL, composed from the listing id.
`photos`	string[]	Up to six photo URLs from the card carousel.
`superhost`	boolean	True when the host is a Superhost.
`is_hotel`	boolean	True when the card is a hotel or bed-and-breakfast listed as a property with several rooms.
`property_id`	string, nullable	Airbnb property id on hotel and bed-and-breakfast cards.
`rooms_available`	integer, nullable	Rooms available for the dates, on hotel and bed-and-breakfast cards.
`pay_later`	boolean	True when the card offers to reserve with nothing to pay upfront.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/airbnb_stays/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"location":"Rome, Italy","max_results":18}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.001 per delivered stay.

What Airbnb stays rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.001
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Up to 90 stays per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,000 stays. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Airbnb stays API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 stays of this collector at $0.001 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 90 stays per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.001 per delivered stay, no subscription.

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