The SerpApi Google Hotels API is a user-friendly solution for developers who want to integrate real-time hotel pricing data into their applications. It provides access to essential information such as rates, check-in/out times, and amenities without the hassle of web scraping. Whether you’re creating a comparison tool or enhancing a travel app, this API streamlines the entire process.

Scrape Hotel Prices using Python

Google Hotels API

Here is the data example you can expect when using SerpApi's Google Hotels API.

Data example from Google Hotels API

As you can see, not just pricing information is available, you can see other information as well, like amenities, ratings, reviews, and more.

We also provide a Google Hotels Property Details API to scrape more data about individual hotels.

Hotel property details API

In case there are more options to book the hotel, we'll return all the sources and pricing options through this API.

We have a video tutorial on how to use our Google Hotels API:

Code preparation

You can use a simple GET request or a dedicated SDK based on your programming language, including Python, JavaScript, and more. In this post, we'll use the GET request method in Python.

Preparation for accessing the SerpApi API

  • Register at serpapi.com for free to get your SerpApi Api Key.
  • Create a new main.py file
  • Install requests with
pip install requests

Here is what the basic setup looks like:

import requests
SERPAPI_API_KEY = "YOUR_REAL_SERPAPI_API_KEY"

params = {
    "api_key": SERPAPI_API_KEY, #replace with your real API Key
    # soon
}

search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()
print(response)

With these few lines of code, we can access all of the search engines available at SerpApi, including the Google Hotels API. We'll soon adjust the parameters based on our needs.

Scrape hotel prices

When searching for a hotel directly through the Google Travel site, we can see the prices listed on the right side like this:

Google Hotel prices example

Let's learn how to scrape those prices.

We'll update our Python code to include the query we want to search for (in q parameter) and the check-in and check-out dates in YYYY-MM-DD format.

import requests
SERPAPI_API_KEY = "YOUR_SERPAPI_API_KEY"

params = {
    "api_key": SERPAPI_API_KEY, 
    "engine": "google_hotels",
    "q": "Singapore",
    "check_in_date": "2025-05-10",
    "check_out_date": "2025-05-20",
}

search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()
print(response)

To make the output nicer, let's use the JSON package:

import json

# ... all previous code

print(json.dumps(response, indent=2))

Now, under the properties key, we can see the list of hotels, like this:

hotels results

The rate_per_night and total_rate are available here.

Scrape more booking options

Additionally, when you click on one of the options on the Google Hotels site, we can see more prices listed on the individual page.

Scrape more prices (booking options)

Let's learn how to scrape more prices or booking options like above.

Google Hotels Property Details API
In order to get the individual page information, we'll perform another request that requires a property_token. This token is available upon initial request. The values are unique for each hotel. For example:

Property token for Google Hotel

Reference: https://serpapi.com/google-hotels-property-details

Here is the adjusted code:

import requests
import json
SERPAPI_API_KEY = "YOUR_SERPAPI_KEY" #replace with your real API Key

params = {
    "api_key": SERPAPI_API_KEY, 
    "engine": "google_hotels",
    "q": "Singapore",
    "check_in_date": "2025-05-10",
    "check_out_date": "2025-05-20",
    "property_token": "ChUI17vV0u_fprYCGgkvbS8wZGQ5MDMQAQ",
}

search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()
print(json.dumps(response, indent=2))

I included the property_token manually; feel free to create a programmatic way if needed.

Now, you can see the list of prices in two different places:
- featured_prices
- prices

For the sponsored or featured prices, they're listed here:

Featured prices

Next, for the regular prices:

All options prices

Depending on your use case, you might need this additional information.

More parameters

To refine your search, we provide additional parameters like gl, hl, currency, and ability to add filters like providing how many adults or children arenstaying, as well as a way to sort the results.

You can take a look at all the available parameters here: https://serpapi.com/google-hotels-api

That's it, I hope you enjoy reading this article!

If you're interested in scraping the results in JavaScript, here is the related blog post:

Scraping Google Hotels
Scraping Google Hotels for hotels data can be valuable to your business. These data can be used for 1. Analysis: Data such as pricing, availability, ratings, and reviews could be useful for market analysis, competitive research, and understanding pricing trends. 2. Price Comparison: Compare prices across various platforms or to
SerpApiTerry Tan

We also have an interesting tutorial on how to track the hotel price using no-code tool:n8n

Making a Hotel Price Tracker with Google Hotels and n8n
How to build a no-code hotel price tracker with SerpApi’s Google Hotels API and n8n.io.
SerpApiAlex Barron