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Booking.com scraper API in Python

Booking.com properties around a place or address for your dates — nightly price, discount, review score, stars. One POST from Python with check_in_date and check_out_date, rows back as JSON with 41 fields, $0.02 per delivered property. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the booking_stays collector returns one dict per property, at $0.02 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/booking_stays/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "check_in_date": "<check_in_date>",
        "check_out_date": "<check_out_date>",
    },
    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("name"), row.get("property_id"), row.get("price"), row.get("price_value"))

Python: one Booking.com stays run, printing name, property_id, price, price_value

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 Booking.com stays collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`location`	string	no	City, area or street address, e.g. "Roma, Italia" or "12 Marine Parade, Napier, New Zealand". Resolved to coordinates first; pass latitude/longitude instead to skip that step.
`latitude`	number	no	Alternative to location.
`longitude`	number	no	Alternative to location.
`check_in_date`	string	yes	YYYY-MM-DD
`check_out_date`	string	yes	YYYY-MM-DD (after check-in)
`adults`	integer	no (default 2)	Guests (1-30).
`rooms`	integer	no (default 1)	Rooms (1-10).
`currency`	string	no	Price currency (EUR, USD, NZD...).
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`lang`	string	no	Interface language (hl), e.g. en, it, de.
`max_results`	integer	no	How many properties to deliver at most (1–100). You pay only for delivered properties.

Response fields

41 fields per property.

Fields of each row (property)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position in Booking's order.
`name`	string	Property name.
`property_id`	integer	Booking's own property id.
`price`	string	Nightly price as shown.
`price_value`	number	Numeric price for the stay requested, taxes and fees included.
`currency`	string	Currency of the price.
`strikethrough_value`	number	Price before the discount, when Booking shows one.
`discount_pct`	integer	Discount implied by the two prices.
`review_score`	number	Guest score out of 10.
`review_word`	string	Booking's word for that score.
`review_count`	integer	Number of reviews.
`stars`	integer	Star class; 0 on apartments and B&Bs that have none.
`room_type`	string	The unit Booking recommends for this stay.
`area`	string	Neighbourhood as Booking names it.
`distance_m`	integer	Metres from the point you searched — how close this competitor actually is.
`distance_text`	string	The distance as Booking phrases it.
`free_cancellation`	boolean	Booking shows a free-cancellation badge on this offer.
`breakfast_included`	boolean	Breakfast is included in this price.
`rooms_left_at_price`	integer	Scarcity Booking declares: "we have N left at this price".
`taxes_included`	boolean	Whether the price already includes taxes and charges — without it two prices are not comparable.
`sustainability`	boolean	Property carries a sustainability certification.
`preferred`	boolean	Booking "Preferred" partner.
`quality_class`	integer	Booking's own 1-5 quality rating, for properties with no star class.
`latitude`	number	Property latitude.
`longitude`	number	Property longitude.
`country`	string	Country code.
`checkin_from`	string	Earliest check-in time.
`checkout_until`	string	Latest check-out time.
`photo`	string	Main photo URL.
`photos`	string[]	Every photo Booking returned for the card.
`check_in_date`	string	Echo of the request.
`check_out_date`	string	Echo of the request.
`nights`	integer, nullable	Nights of the stay.
`price_per_night`	number, nullable	Stay total divided by the nights.
`unit_type`	string, nullable	Kind of unit from the room label: "Entire apartment", "Private room", "Private suite", "Hotel room"…
`size_m2`	number, nullable	Unit size in m² when the label states it.
`beds`	integer, nullable	Beds in the recommended unit.
`bedrooms`	integer, nullable	Bedrooms, when the label states them.
`bathrooms`	integer, nullable	Bathrooms, when the label states them.
`photo_large`	string, nullable	The main photo at up to 1024×768.
`url`	string, nullable	Link that opens the property on booking.com for the same dates and guests.

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/booking_stays/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"check_in_date":"<check_in_date>","check_out_date":"<check_out_date>"}, "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

$0.02 per delivered property.

What Booking.com stays rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.02
1,000	$20.00
10,000	$200.00

Up to 100 properties per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 100 properties. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Booking.com stays API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 100 properties of this collector at $0.02 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 100 properties 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. $0.02 per delivered property, no subscription.

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