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There's no Google Hotels API, and the free fallbacks closed

TL;DR: Google has no public API for the prices you see on Google Hotels. In 2026 the two fallbacks most tutorials pointed to also closed for small developers: Amadeus Self-Service (including Hotel Search) shut on 17 July, and Booking.com's Demand API is for contracted partners only. If you need hotel prices in code without a partnership, what's left is reading the public results page, yourself or…

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Google Hotels does not offer a public API for hotel prices. In fact, two previously common fallbacks for accessing hotel prices via API have closed for small developers. The Google Hotels results page itself is publicly available, and can be parsed to access hotel prices and other information. However, for small developers without a partnership, the options are limited.

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