**Trip.com Search Prompt**

What does Trip.com Search Prompt do?

Trip.com Search Prompt lets you scrape Trip.com hotels from a plain-English prompt — no URL building required. Describe what you're looking for (for example, "3-star hotels in Hanoi near the Old Quarter for two adults next weekend"), and the Actor uses AI to turn your prompt into targeted Trip.com hotel list URLs, scrapes the matching hotels, and stores them as a structured dataset.

Under the hood, it chains three Actors together:

1. AI Scraper Input Generator converts your prompt into Trip.com hotel list URLs.
2. Trip.com Actor crawls those URLs and extracts the hotel details — name, star rating, guest rating, review count, room, price, and more.
3. AI Dataset Search then searches the scraped results with your original prompt and stores a link to the best matches in the run's OUTPUT record.

Because it runs on the Apify platform, you get API access, scheduling, monitoring, and integrations (Make, Zapier, webhooks, Google Drive, and more) out of the box.

Why use Trip.com Search Prompt?

• No manual URL construction — describe your intent in natural language, and the AI handles Trip.com's search URL format, city codes, dates, and filters.
• Better coverage — one prompt becomes several targeted search URL variations, surfacing hotels a single query would miss.
• Travel research made simple — schedule a run of "cheap hotels in Da Nang with rating above 8.5" and feed the results into your own database.
• Price and market monitoring — build datasets of hotels by city, star level, or price range for analysis and comparison.
• Automation-ready — predictable JSON output that plugs straight into data pipelines and integrations.

How to use Trip.com Search Prompt

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. In the Input tab, enter your search prompt in plain English.
3. Optionally adjust Max items to limit how many hotels are scraped.
4. Set the Actor's memory to 128 MB or less in the run options (the Actor enforces this limit, since the heavy lifting happens in the chained Actors).
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Open the Output tab or the dataset API URL to view and export your results.

Input

Set the input in the Actor's Input tab. Only the prompt is required.

{
    "prompt": "3-star hotels in Hanoi near the Old Quarter for two adults",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
prompt	string	Yes	Plain-English description of the hotels to find on Trip.com. City, dates, number of guests, star level, and budget all improve results.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of hotels to scrape (default 10, maximum 500).
numberOfUrls	integer	No	How many search URL variations the AI generates from your prompt (default 3).
targetActor	string	No	Scraper Actor to run on the generated URLs (default dtrungtin/trip-com-actor).
websiteDomain	string	No	Website domain hint passed to the URL generator (e.g. trip.com).

Output

Each scraped Trip.com hotel is stored as one item in the default dataset. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. The run's OUTPUT record in the key-value store additionally contains searchResultsDatasetUrl — a link to the AI-filtered results that best match your prompt.

Example dataset item:

{
    "hotelId": 703714,
    "name": "A25 Premium Hotel - 15 Tran Quoc Toan",
    "url": "https://www.trip.com/hotels/detail/?cityEnName=Hanoi&cityId=286&hotelId=703714",
    "stars": 3,
    "rating": 8.8,
    "reviewCount": 72,
    "locations": ["Hồ Hoàn Kiếm Area", "Near Hanoi Old Quarter"],
    "tags": ["Breakfast included", "Special Discount", "5% off"],
    "roomName": "Deluxe Twin",
    "price": 33,
    "originalPrice": 35,
    "totalPrice": 37,
    "currency": "USD",
    "priceText": "US$33",
    "totalPriceText": "Total (incl. taxes & fees): US$37",
    "checkIn": "2026-07-30",
    "checkOut": "2026-07-31",
    "adults": 2,
    "children": 0,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.trip.com/hotels/list?city=286&checkIn=2026-07-30&checkOut=2026-07-31&adult=2",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T03:34:43.534Z"
}

Data table

Field	Type	Description
hotelId	number	Trip.com hotel ID
name	string	Hotel name
url	string	Direct link to the hotel detail page
stars	number	Star classification of the hotel
rating	number	Guest review score (out of 10)
reviewCount	number	Number of guest reviews
locations	array	Area and landmark descriptions
tags	array	Deal and amenity tags (e.g. breakfast, discounts)
roomName	string	Cheapest offered room type
price	number	Nightly price for the offered room
originalPrice	number	Price before discount
totalPrice	number	Total stay price including taxes and fees
currency	string	Price currency
checkIn / checkOut	string	Stay dates used for the search
adults / children	number	Guest counts used for the search
sourceUrl	string	The generated list URL the hotel was found on
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp of extraction

Exact fields may vary slightly by hotel, since not all Trip.com listings expose the same attributes.

How much does it cost to scrape Trip.com with a prompt?

A run consists of three parts: this orchestrator Actor (very light — it runs at 128 MB and mostly waits), one short AI Scraper Input Generator run, and the Trip.com Actor run. The Trip.com Actor uses a headless browser with residential proxies (Trip.com has strong anti-bot protection), so it dominates the cost — as a reference, a run scraping around 500 hotels consumes roughly $0.40 of platform usage. Use Max items to cap the scraping cost of each run, and start with small values to see actual consumption before scaling up.

Tips

• Be specific in your prompt. "4-star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City under $60 for two adults in September" produces much better search URLs than "hotels in Vietnam".
• Include dates and guests. Trip.com prices depend on check-in/check-out dates and occupancy, so mentioning them keeps results realistic.
• Start small. Run with a low maxItems first to check that the generated URLs match your intent, then scale up (maximum 500).
• Schedule it. Add the Actor to a Schedule to track price changes in a city, and connect a webhook or integration to act on the results.
• Keep memory at 128 MB. The Actor intentionally refuses to run with more, because the chained Actors do the actual work — extra memory would only add cost.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is it legal to scrape Trip.com? This Actor extracts publicly available hotel data. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with Trip.com's Terms of Service and applicable laws (including data protection regulations) before using the results, especially in automated or commercial workflows. Do not collect or misuse personal data.

Why did my run fail with a memory error? This Actor requires memory of 128 MB or less. Lower the memory setting in the run options and start it again.

Why are there no results? If the AI could not generate valid search URLs from your prompt, the run fails with a clear error — rephrase the prompt with more specific city, date, or budget terms and try again.

Found a bug or need a custom feature? Open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab — custom solutions and tailored versions are available on request.