Search Trip.com hotels by city API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/tripcom/hotels/search

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

Trip.com

Response schema

#/definitions/tripcom.searchResponseDoc

Overview

Returns Trip.com's own top-hotels page for a city: normalized hotel summaries (name, location, star rating, guest rating, review count, image, display price) for the hotels Trip.com features on that city's hotel-list page. Trip.com does not expose a credential-free free-text city search, so callers supply the exact city_slug and city_id pair from a known Trip.com hotel-list URL of the form https://www.trip.com/hotels/{city_slug}-hotels-list-{city_id}/. Credential-free public data sourced from Trip.com's own server-rendered hotel-list page. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

3 credits/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Browser cluster behavior

Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.

For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.

You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.

Response behavior

- Both `city_slug` and `city_id` must be exactly correct — Trip.com's own page 404s on a mismatched slug even when the id is valid, and this endpoint surfaces that as a `404`. - `hotels` is Trip.com's own curated top-hotels page for the city, not a fully paginated search — Trip.com does not expose page/offset parameters credential-free on this page. `count` reports exactly how many hotels this page returned, not a citywide total. - Each hotel's `price` is the list page's display price for the shown stay length (usually one night), not a full rate breakdown. - `hotel_id` in each result is the numeric Trip.com hotel id to pass to the hotel-detail endpoint. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "city_slug": "bangkok", "city_id": "359", "count": 9, "hotels": [ { "hotel_id": 39371462, "name": "Divalux Resort and Spa Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi Airport-Free Shuttle", "url": "https://www.trip.com/hotels/bang-sao-thong-district-hotel-detail-39371462/divalux-resort-and-spa-bangkok-suvarnabhumi-airport-free-shuttle/", "image_url": "https://ak-d.tripcdn.com/images/0585b12000sq6ih4c6345.jpg", "location": "88 Moo3, Sriwaree Road, Sisa Chokhe Noi, Bang Sao Thong District, Srisa Chorakhe Noi, Bang Sao Thong", "star_rating": 5, "rating_score": 8.7, "review_count": 872, "description": "The hotel has a relaxing wellness atmosphere, and the staff are friendly and provide excellent service.", "price": {"raw": "US$38", "currency": "US$", "amount": 38, "unit": "1 night"} } ], "source_url": "https://www.trip.com/hotels/bangkok-hotels-list-359/" } } ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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