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Google Hotels API in Python

Google Hotels properties for a city and dates — nightly price, total, rating, amenities. One POST from Python with location and check_in_date and check_out_date, rows back as JSON with 19 fields, $0.002 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 hotels collector returns one dict per property, at $0.002 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/hotels/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "location": "Rome, Italy",
        "check_in_date": "2026-09-18",
        "check_out_date": "2026-09-20",
        "adults": 2,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "country": "us",
        "max_results": 20,
    },
    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("price"), row.get("price_value"), row.get("currency"))

Python: one Hotels run (Rome, 2 nights), printing name, price, price_value, currency

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 Hotels collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`location`	string	yes	City / area, e.g. "Rome, Italy".
`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 (1–8).
`currency`	string	no	Price currency (USD, EUR…).
`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 (default 20)	How many properties to deliver at most (1–50). You pay only for delivered properties.

Response fields

19 fields per property.

Fields of each row (property)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position.
`name`	string	Property name.
`price`	string, nullable	Nightly price as shown.
`price_value`	number, nullable	Numeric nightly price.
`currency`	string, nullable	Currency.
`total_price`	string, nullable	Total for the stay as shown.
`rating`	number, nullable	Rating.
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Review count.
`dates`	string, nullable	Stay dates shown on the card.
`property_type`	string, nullable	Hotel, Apartment…
`amenities`	string[]	Amenity chips.
`link`	string, nullable	Property link.
`thumbnail`	string, nullable	Photo URL.
`check_in_date`	string	Echo of the request.
`check_out_date`	string	Echo of the request.
`nights`	integer	Nights between check-in and check-out.
`total_price_value`	number, nullable	Numeric total for the stay.
`adults`	integer	Echo of the request.
`location`	string	Echo of the request.

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/hotels/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"location":"Rome, Italy","check_in_date":"2026-09-18","check_out_date":"2026-09-20","adults":2,"currency":"EUR","country":"us","max_results":20}, "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

$0.002 per delivered property.

What Hotels rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.002
1,000	$2.00
10,000	$20.00

Up to 50 properties per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 1,000 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 Hotels API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 1,000 properties of this collector at $0.002 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 50 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. $0.002 per delivered property, no subscription.

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