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Developer builds Booking.com hotel price scraper using SEO URLs and Apollo cache

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A developer has published a tool that scrapes hotel pricing data from Booking.com by bypassing its bot-blocking measures through direct navigation to city-specific SEO landing pages instead of automating the search interface. The approach avoids unreliable UI interactions like autocomplete and lazy-loaded results, using Open-Meteo's free geocoding API to convert city names into the required URL format. Rather than parsing the rendered HTML, the tool extracts structured hotel data — including names, review scores, and prices — from Booking.com's embedded Apollo GraphQL cache. Prices retrieved this way are indicative nightly rates without specific dates, making the tool suited for market-level analysis rather than booking-specific queries. The scraper is available on Apify as 'booking-hotel-price-analyzer' and returns city-wide metrics such as median prices and supply depth with a single API call.

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