Booking Scraper

Hi Daniel, thanks for opening this issue!

Yes, the hotel ID/name is all you need. Simply append www.booking.com/hotel/ before the ID and you've got a functional start URL. e.g. hotel ID cz/residence-agnes + www.booking.com/hotel/ = www.booking.com/hotel/cz/residence-agnes.

And supply your check-in and check-out under the checkIn and checkOut input fields of the scraper.

I hope this helps, thanks!

Also, we have some issues currently with users not being able to comment/reopen on closed issues, so I will keep this open for now and feel free to close this if everything has been resolved :) Thanks and happy scraping!

Hmm, I see but that will require me to know how booking.com exactly indexed their hotel in the system but I do not know that.

The best thing I could do now is have a start URL that the system can use to search the hotel (this is a URL I can create -

https://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?ss=The%2BFirst%2BCollection%2Bat%2BJumeirah%2BVillage%2BCircle%252C%2Ba%2BTribute%2BPortfolio%2BHotel

)

Hotel name (example) - The First Collection at Jumeirah Village Circle, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

What would be great is actually if I could search by hotel name from the start without giving any URLs and the API will do it like booking.com input ->

I see, yeah, this is something the scraper currently doesn't support as of now. We do have a search input field, used pretty much like the booking one, but trying the direct hotel name there fails the scraper :D We use a bit unconventional way to get the results from the booking search feature, so it might take some time to fix this.

Btw, the URL that you've shared leads to a different hotel as the first result, see the screenshot. But I was able to modify it like this to get the expected outcome: https://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?ss=The+First+Collection+at+Jumeirah+Village+Circle%2C+a+Tribute+Portfolio+Hotel

Looks like booking is once again very unreliable with its URLs and somehow escaping the URI characters leads to different results. Yet another reason I would recommend you to use the direct hotel IDs approach.

I will keep you updated here in the meantime, thanks!

Thanks! do you know how I can get a hotel ID by just providing the hotel name somewhere?

Well, manually opening the hotel detail page the URL have the hotel ID in it. So in your case, https://www.booking.com/hotel/ae/the-first-collection-jumeirah-village-dubai.en-gb.html the hotel ID would be ae/the-first-collection-jumeirah-village-dubai.

And you don't even need to filter out the hotel ID, you can just use that URL straight in this scraper :)

Sadly, I'm not aware of any other automation tools for this kind of job right now. But we will add this to the scraper :)

Thanks, I managed to find a fix to generating automatically URLs, I just created my solution for that and would love to see it here.