Travel & stays
Tourist accommodation scraping
A nightly price does not exist outside a date. Collecting accommodation therefore means querying a calendar rather than reading a page — and starting again every day, because the calendar moves.
Data we extract
- Nightly price by date and length of stay
- Availability calendar
- Capacity, bedrooms and sleeping places
- Amenities and included services
- Cleaning fee and tourist tax
- Rating, review count and cancellation terms
- Location and accommodation type
Example use cases
- Price observatory for a destination
- Yield management across a rental portfolio
- Measuring tourist pressure town by town
- Spotting undeclared holiday lets
Framework & ethics
We work with publicly accessible data, at a controlled pace so as not to disturb the sites we consult. Defining the uses is your responsibility, and we advise you on it.
Other kinds of site we collect
Transport and ticketing
Travel
A transport fare is not read, it is requested: it only exists in answer to an origin-destination pair and a date.
Property listings
Real estate
Listing portals publish tens of thousands of properties every day, and pull them just as fast.
Estate agency networks
Real estate
A network's own site does not publish what a portal publishes: it shows a portfolio, a fee scale, a web of branches and the negotiators who run them.
Vehicle listings
Motoring
A used car's price means nothing on its own: it hangs on the model year, the mileage, the trim and who is selling.
Valuations and spec sheets
Motoring
A valuation and a listing say different things: one gives a reference value, the other an asking price.
Job postings
Hiring
The same role appears on several sites under three different titles, then vanishes without notice.
Salaries and employer reviews
Hiring
What a role pays, and what people think of the employer, are not in the job ad.
Marketplaces
E-commerce
On a marketplace a product has no single price but as many prices as it has sellers, and the one that wins the basket changes during the day.
All kinds in the same sector: Travel and accommodation scraping
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