How to Scrape Flight Prices and Hotel Deals Automatically

Travel data scraping is a billion-dollar industry. Here is how to get started. The Challenge Travel sites (Expedia, Booking, Kayak) are among the hardest to scrape: Heavy JavaScript rendering Aggressive anti-bot Dynamic pricing (changes every minute) CAPTCHAs on repeated requests Better Approach: Travel APIs Several APIs provide travel data without scraping: API Data Free Tier Amadeus Flights, hotels 500 calls/month Skyscanner Flight prices Limited Google Flights Flight data Via SerpAPI Booking.com Hotels Affiliate API Amadeus API Example async function searchFlights ( origin , dest , date ) { const token = await getAmadeusToken (); const url = `https://api.amadeus.com/v2/shopping/flight-offers?originLocationCode= ${ origin } &destinationLocationCode= ${ dest } &departureDate= ${ date } &adults=1&max=5` ; const res = await fetch ( url , { headers : { Authorization : `Bearer ${ token } ` } }); return res . json (); } Use Cases Price tracking alerts Fare comparison tools Travel deal aggr