{
  "id": 9660487,
  "title": "How to track Google Hotels prices with Python (no browser, no API key)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/how-to-track-google-hotels-prices-with-python-no-browser-no-api-key",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-25T00:03:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/rel8ble/how-to-track-google-hotels-prices-with-python-no-browser-no-api-key-590g"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I developed a Python script that fetches hotel prices from Google Hotels without using a browser or requiring an API key. Google Hotels displays a price for each hotel in a city, but there is no official API for tracking price changes over time or comparing hotels to their neighbors. To overcome this limitation, I created a scraper called Google Hotels Scraper. This post demonstrates how to call the scraper from Python and Node, what the data returned looks like, and provides an example of how to use it to log hotel prices to a Google Sheet on a daily basis.",
  "summary": "I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit. Google Hotels shows you a price for every hotel in a city, but there's no official API for it. If you want to watch how prices move over a few weeks, compare a hotel against its neighbours, or feed prices into a trip planner, you end up copying numbers by hand. I'm an 18-year-old engineering student, and I wrote a scraper for…",
  "key_points": [
    "Python script fetches hotel prices from Google Hotels without browser or API key.",
    "Developed scraper called Google Hotels Scraper to overcome lack of official API.",
    "Demonstrates calling scraper from Python and Node, data returned, and logging to Google Sheet."
  ],
  "editors_take": "This development lets users track hotel price changes over time without needing an API key, filling a gap in Google Hotels' functionality with a custom Python scraper solution.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}