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Hostelworld Scraper API

Extract Hostelworld properties into JSON: dorm-bed and private-room pricing per night, bed availability, deposit terms, facility lists, and the traveler rating breakdown.

Listings & ratesReviews & ratingsLive availability200 locales
▸ Overview

Hostelworld is the leading booking platform for hostels, where inventory is priced per bed in shared dorms as well as private rooms, making per-bed availability and category mix the defining signals. The Hostelworld Scraper API resolves property pages, per-bed and per-room rates for your dates, remaining bed counts, and the multi-category rating breakdown into structured JSON.

Budget-travel apps and backpacker-market analysts use it to track hostel pricing, occupancy, and ratings across cities. Bed-level availability is resolved live so dorm capacity and pricing reflect what is actually bookable at scrape time.

Hostelworld Scraper API · request
# POST a target — get validated JSON back
curl https://api.crawlzo.com/v4/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLZO_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "url": "https://www.hostelworld.com/",
  "type": "listing",
  "geo": "us"
  }'

// ← response
{
  "status": "ok",
  "data": {
    "name": "...",
    "rating": 4.6,
    "reviews": 1320,
    "price_per_night": 184.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "available": true,
    "amenities": ["wifi", "pool"]
  }
}
"type": "listing", "geo": "us"
▸ What you can extract

Every public field, structured for you.

Hostelworld data parsed into clean, validated JSON. Pull any group below on its own, or combine them in a single request.

Listing / property details

  • Name, type, description, location
  • Star rating, review count, coordinates
  • Room / fare types and capacity
  • Photos and host/operator details

Pricing & availability

  • Live price per night / fare
  • Date-range availability and calendars
  • Taxes, fees, and total price
  • Discounts and member rates

Reviews & ratings

  • Review text, rating, author, date
  • Category sub-scores (cleanliness, location)
  • Rating distribution and owner responses
  • Full review pagination

Search results

  • Ranked results per destination + dates
  • Price, rating, position, sponsored flag
  • Filters and sort applied
  • Pagination across result pages

Amenities & policies

  • Amenities and services list
  • Cancellation and check-in policies
  • Accessibility and pet policies
▸ Built on the Crawlzo engine

The hard parts, already solved.

▸ What teams build with it

Common use cases.

[ 01 ]

Hostel and dorm-bed pricing analysis

[ 02 ]

Bed-level availability and occupancy tracking

[ 03 ]

Backpacker-market supply research

[ 04 ]

Traveler rating and category benchmarking

▸ FAQ

Hostelworld scraping, answered.

Structured JSON straight from the API, or pushed to your stack natively — S3, BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, Kafka, or any HTTPS webhook. Call it from Python, Node, Go, Rust, or any HTTP client. The data lands where your pipeline already lives.

No. You pay for valid, schema-passing rows only. Retries, blocks, CAPTCHAs, and 5xxs are on us. If a run doesn't return data that conforms to the schema, it isn't billed.

Every request routes through the same engine behind our Web Unblocker API: compliant residential IPs, real browser fingerprints, TLS-level evasion, behaviour modelling, and built-in CAPTCHA solving. Hard targets become routine.

Yes. We respect robots policies, rate budgets, and ToS-aware allow/deny lists. We deliver and move on — no row-level retention beyond your replay window. GDPR DPA, PII redaction, and custom data residency available on request.

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