How to Track Hotel Prices for Any City in a Spreadsheet Using Python

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A guide shows how to collect hotel price snapshots for a city or neighborhood using GridForge's Google Hotels Scraper and export them to CSV. Each result covers one hotel from the first page of search results, including nightly prices with and without taxes, guest ratings, review counts, and website details. The walkthrough explains that the scraper can be run without code through the Apify interface, or automated with a Python script using the apify-client library. The Python example logs the stay dates, currency, and timestamp with each record so that repeated searches remain comparable over time. Readers are advised to keep search parameters constant across runs and to leave missing fields empty rather than treating them as zero.

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