# HolidayCheck Reviews Scraper (`one_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape hotel reviews, ratings, and owner replies from HolidayCheck by hotel URL or UUID.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/one\_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [One House](https://apify.com/one_house) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 75.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## HolidayCheck Reviews Scraper

Extract hotel reviews from [HolidayCheck](https://www.holidaycheck.de) using a hotel page URL or hotel UUID.

Ideal for reputation monitoring, competitor analysis, and hospitality data pipelines.

### What you get

- Hotel name, aggregate rating, and review count
- Review title and text
- Overall rating on HolidayCheck’s 6-point scale, plus category ratings
- Author name, ID, and avatar (when available)
- Travel date, travel party, reason, and duration
- Recommendation flag
- Owner reply text and date
- Full raw review object for advanced use

### How to use

1. Open this Actor and click **Start**
2. Add HolidayCheck hotel URLs under **Hotel URLs**, or paste hotel UUIDs under **Hotel IDs**
3. Set **Max reviews per hotel** (`0` = all available reviews)
4. Leave **Proxy** off by default; if the run fails with HTTP 403 on Apify, enable **Apify Proxy → Residential**
5. Run and download results from the **Dataset** tab

#### Finding the hotel ID

The hotel UUID is the last part of the hotel URL:

- `https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/{hotel-name}/{uuid}`
- `https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/a/{uuid}`

### Input example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100
}
```

### Output example

Each dataset item is one review:

```json
{
  "reviewId": "f11d2bf4-6cea-4794-9538-520c588b7e06",
  "hotelId": "595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341",
  "hotelName": "Blue Lagoon Resort",
  "hotelUrl": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341",
  "title": "Tolle Anlage",
  "text": "Die Hotelanlage war einfach Spitze.",
  "rating": 6,
  "ratingScale": 6,
  "authorName": "Vik",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-10T08:00:32.000Z",
  "travelDate": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "traveledWith": "FAMILY",
  "recommendation": true,
  "replyText": null,
  "source": "holidaycheck",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-11T07:05:00.000Z"
}
```

A hotel summary is also saved in the key-value store as `HOTEL_INFO_{hotelId}`.

### Tips

- Default is **no proxy**. Apify Cloud datacenter IPs may get HTTP 403 on the reviews API — use **Residential** proxy in that case.
- Use `maxReviews` to control cost on hotels with thousands of reviews.
- Ratings on HolidayCheck use a **1–6** scale (`ratingScale: 6`).
- Add multiple hotel URLs in one run to batch scraping.

### Limitations

- Only public HolidayCheck hotel reviews are returned.
- Some hotels may have few or no HolidayCheck-native reviews (partner reviews on the page are not always available via the same API).

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

HolidayCheck hotel page URLs. The hotel UUID is extracted automatically.

## `hotelIds` (type: `array`):

HolidayCheck hotel UUIDs (alternative to URLs).

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to scrape per hotel. Set 0 for all available reviews.

## `pageSize` (type: `integer`):

Reviews fetched per API request (1–500).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Default is no proxy. On Apify Cloud, enable Residential if the reviews API returns HTTP 403.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "pageSize": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341"
        }
    ],
    "maxReviews": 100,
    "pageSize": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("one_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341" }],
    "maxReviews": 100,
    "pageSize": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("one_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hi/blue-lagoon-resort/595aa16f-6527-3ab6-ad38-47780a2bb341"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "pageSize": 100
}' |
apify call one_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=one_house/holidaycheck-reviews-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Zuwe2b4zy342m0qPK/builds/h6AZEWayeCF1bavlL/openapi.json