Data sources
Every source the API covers, what it is best for, and what it costs.
Overview
ScraperCompany collects rates from Google Hotels, eight OTAs and rental sites, Google Flights and 31 official hotel booking engines. Each source has different coverage, cost and latency. Credit costs below follow the credit schedule (metering is in beta; the API is free during the beta).
Google Hotels
Best for: Forward rate calendars and destination search
Nightly rates for up to 330 nights per call (90 by default) from Google's calendar data, per-seller offers and room types for a single night, and the hotels Google lists for a destination with their prices.
/v1/search, /v1/hotels/search, /v1/calendar, /v1/stay, /v1/offers, /v1/roomsCharacteristics
- One calendar call replaces one request per night
- Destination search returns about 20 properties per page with filters (price, rating, class, amenities) and their property tokens, ready for the calendar (guide)
- Market and currency are selectable, and taxes/fees are normalized per market
- Offers and rooms break a single night down by seller (OTAs and the official site)
- SearchAPI-compatible shapes at
/v1/serp/google_hotels,/v1/serp/google_hotels_calendarand/v1/serp/google_hotels_property
Booking.com
Best for: Booking.com's own prices and rooms
Resolve a hotel by name, then read Booking's own inventory: a multi-date calendar and the room and rate-plan grid.
/v1/ota/booking/search, /v1/ota/booking, /v1/ota/booking/roomsHotels.com
Best for: Expedia Group inventory
Resolve a hotel to its numeric Hotels.com id, then price one date per call. Prices are specific to the point of sale, so compare like with like.
/v1/ota/hotels/search, /v1/ota/hotels, /v1/ota/hotels/roomsExpedia
Best for: Expedia's own rooms and rate plans
Resolve a hotel to its numeric Expedia id, then read every room type and rate plan for one stay: total, nightly price, cancellation terms and payment model. The point of sale (US or CA) decides the currency.
/v1/ota/expedia/search, /v1/ota/expediaAgoda
Best for: Asia-Pacific coverage
Resolve a hotel to its Agoda id, then read Agoda's rooms and rate plans. Currency conversions are Agoda's own.
/v1/ota/agoda/search, /v1/ota/agodaTripadvisor
Best for: Metasearch offers from several OTAs at once
The provider offers Tripadvisor shows for one stay window, by Tripadvisor location id. Name search is not available yet: take the location id from the hotel's Tripadvisor URL (the number after -d in /Hotel_Review-g…-d12345-…).
/v1/ota/tripadvisorHostelworld
Best for: Hostels
Dorm beds and private rooms with rate plans, by numeric Hostelworld property id. Currency is the property's own.
/v1/ota/hostelworldAirbnb
Best for: Vacation rentals
Destination or map-area search with listing ids, prices, price breakdowns, ratings and cursor pagination, in SearchAPI's engine=airbnb shape; and a listing's day-by-day availability calendar with Airbnb's own quoted stay prices.
/v1/serp/airbnb, /api/v1/search?engine=airbnb, /v1/airbnb/calendar, /v1/serp/airbnb_property_availability_calendarVrbo
Best for: Vacation rentals on Vrbo
Search a destination for rentals with nightly and stay prices, then quote one rental by property id or by the listing id in its Vrbo URL (US market).
/v1/ota/vrbo/search, /v1/ota/vrboGoogle Flights
Best for: Flight prices
Every itinerary Google Flights offers for one-way, round-trip and multi-city trips, with per-segment detail and price insights; return legs, booking options by seller, airport and city lookup, and a flexible-date price grid.
/v1/serp/google_flights, /v1/serp/google_flights_return, /v1/serp/google_flights_booking, /v1/serp/google_flights_location_search, /v1/serp/google_flights_calendarOfficial Hotel Websites
Best for: Direct booking rates and parity checks
The rate the hotel sells at on its own site. The booking engine is detected from the hotel's URL; 31 engines are supported.
/v1/official, /v1/official/enginesCharacteristics
- Returns the hotel's own rooms and rate plans
- Latency depends on the engine, from well under a second to several seconds when a browser is needed;
GET /v1/official/engineslists the cost per engine - Pair with OTA rates for rate parity monitoring
Guest reviews
Best for: Reputation monitoring and review analytics
Guest reviews from Tripadvisor, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com and Google Hotels: rating, title, text, author, stay details, the property's reply and upstream labels like Verified review — page by page, each page with provenance.
/v1/ota/tripadvisor/reviews, /v1/ota/booking/reviews, /v1/ota/expedia/reviews, /v1/ota/hotels/reviews, /v1/hotels/reviewsCharacteristics
- Ratings stay on each source's own scale (Tripadvisor 0–5, Booking and Expedia 0–10); compare via
rating_scale - Google Hotels rows name their provider — Google mixes its own reviews with Tripadvisor's, Priceline's and others
- Management replies, stay dates, room types and helpful-vote counts where the source publishes them
- Upstream labels carried verbatim: "Verified review", "Liked: …" themes, "Verified Purchase"
Vertical engines (beyond travel)
Best for: News monitoring
Google's own RSS wire: keyword search or section feeds (world, business, technology…), newest first, up to 100 stories per page with publisher and canonical link.
/v1/newsBest for: SERP analytics and SEO
Google organic results, People Also Ask questions and the AI Overview text, rendered in a real browser. Google redirects resolve to destination URLs on request.
/v1/google/searchBest for: A second search engine, over plain HTTP
Bing organic results with titles, snippets and display URLs; click trackers are decoded back to destination URLs. Bing's related searches ride along.
/v1/bing/searchBest for: Local business data
Google Maps places search (name, address, coordinates, rating, phone, website, category) and place detail with the review count.
/v1/maps/search, /v1/maps/detailBest for: Demand signals
Google Trends interest over time (0-100 relative to the keyword's own peak) and top/rising related queries with growth percentages.
/v1/trends/interest, /v1/trends/relatedBest for: Retail price and assortment tracking
Google Shopping product cards (title, price, merchant, condition), Amazon search with point-of-sale pricing, Amazon ratings histograms with featured reviews, and Walmart search and reviews from the store's own JSON.
/v1/shopping/search, /v1/amazon/search, /v1/amazon/reviews, /v1/walmart/search, /v1/walmart/reviewsBest for: Hiring and labour-market data
Google Jobs cards (title, company, location, publisher, posting age, employment type, apply sources) and Indeed job records (salary verbatim plus extracted range, posting age, company ratings) over plain HTTP.
/v1/jobs/search, /v1/indeed/jobsChoosing the Right Source
| Use case | Recommended |
|---|---|
| Forward rate calendar for many properties | Google Hotels calendar (5 credits per property) |
| Per-seller breakdown for key dates | Google Hotels offers (3 credits per night) |
| OTA price comparison | OTA compare (20 credits) or single OTAs (8 each) |
| Guest reviews for one hotel | Any reviews endpoint (2 credits per page) |
| Confirm which hotel a token names | Google Hotels resolve (12 credits, with addresses) |
| SERP rank tracking, AI Overview monitoring | Google search (5 per page) or Bing (1 per page) |
| Local business / competitor listings | Google Maps search + detail (3 credits each) |
| Retail price and assortment monitoring | Amazon, Walmart and Google Shopping search |
| Rate parity monitoring | Official site (4) plus OTAs |
| Hotels in a destination, with prices | Google Hotels destination search (3 credits per page) |
| Vacation rentals | Airbnb search and priced calendar, or Vrbo search and quotes |
Data Freshness
- Live endpoints collect from the source when you call them; responses say when the data was observed (for example
observed_aton calendar responses). - Stored rates (
GET /v1/rates/stored) return the latest stored observation with its freshness, without calling the source.
Cost tip
For routine monitoring, one Google Hotels calendar call (5 credits) covers up to 330 nights. Use offers (3 credits per night) and OTA endpoints (8 credits per call) only for the dates where you need seller-level detail.