Booking Scraper API (Python)

A Python client for pulling hotel rate data off Booking.com search pages, built on the ScrapingBee web scraping API. Give it a destination and a pair of dates, and it returns a list of properties with name, nightly price, review score, and location as JSON. Rendering, residential proxies, and field extraction are handled on ScrapingBee's side.

Booking.com is one of the more defended travel sites, with heavy JavaScript and anti-bot challenges, so a direct request rarely returns usable data. This Booking scraper renders each search in a real browser and routes it through residential proxies, with a one-flag escalation to Stealth mode for pages that sit behind a challenge.

Install

pip install booking-scraper-api

Quickstart

from booking_scraper_api import BookingScraper

scraper = BookingScraper(api_key="YOUR_SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY")

result = scraper.search(
    destination="Rome, Lazio, Italy",
    checkin="2026-10-25",
    checkout="2026-10-26",
    adults=2,
    rooms=1,
)
for hotel in result["hotels"]:
    print(hotel["name"], hotel["price"], hotel["score"])

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Returned data

search() returns a dictionary with a hotels list, one entry per property card:

{
  "hotels": [
    {
      "name": "Hotel Example Roma",
      "price": "€180",
      "score": "8.9",
      "location": "Trevi, Rome"
    }
  ]
}

The fields map to the CSS selectors from ScrapingBee's data extraction rules; pass your own extract_rules to pull amenities, room types, or photos as well.

Methods and options

• search(destination, checkin, checkout, adults=2, rooms=1, offset=0, **options) returns structured hotels for one results page. Booking.com pages in steps of 25, so offset=25 is page two.
• scrape(url, extract_rules=None, **options) fetches any Booking.com URL, returning HTML or JSON.

Options that override the defaults:

When Booking blocks a plain request

If a search returns empty or a challenge page, set stealth_proxy=True. Stealth mode is built for aggressive anti-bot defenses and forces JavaScript rendering:

result = scraper.search("Paris", "2026-11-10", "2026-11-12", stealth_proxy=True)

Credit cost

With residential proxies and JavaScript rendering, each request costs 25 ScrapingBee credits. A Stealth request costs 75. See ScrapingBee pricing for the full table before you scale.

Requirements and scope

Python 3.8 or newer and a ScrapingBee API key. This is an independent wrapper on the public ScrapingBee API, not affiliated with Booking.com, and it targets public search pages only.

Links

• How to scrape Booking.com (ScrapingBee guide)
• ScrapingBee Booking scraper
• Data extraction rules

License

MIT