[Google Maps API] Scrape official site tag for hotels

[alexbarron]

Google Maps will show hotel rates with links to various sites to book. They tag the official hotel website with an "Official site" or "Official website" tag depending on the locale. We scrape and return this in the Google Hotels API as official=true, but we're missing this in the Google Maps API.

Google Maps:

Our results:

Public links: Playground

Internal links: Intercom | Search Inspect

[sonika-serpapi]

This information is available in the Google Hotels Property Details API. The same customer asked if there is a way to link the place_id from Google Maps response to a parameter in the Google Hotel Property Details API?

[tanys123]

The same customer asked if there is a way to link the place_id from Google Maps response to a parameter in the Google Hotel Property Details API?

That would be cool but doesn't seem able to do so.

[sonika-serpapi]

Thank you @tanys123! I looked into this a bit more, and I see the place_id is available in Google Hotels HTML in the reviews part. Is it possible to link using that?

This place_id appears in the Google Maps API response for this hotel.
Example in our playground: https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=google_maps&q=The+Ritz-Carlton%2C+Bali&ll=%4040.7455096%2C-74.0083012%2C14z&hl=en&type=search

place_id for the same hotel in Google Hotels in browser:
https://www.google.com/travel/search?q=ritz%20carlton%20bali&g2lb=4965990%2C4969803%2C72277293%...

[tanys123]

I looked into this a bit more, and I see the place_id is available in Google Hotels HTML in the reviews part. Is it possible to link using that?

This place_id appears in the Google Maps API response for this hotel. Example in our playground: https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=google_maps&q=The+Ritz-Carlton%2C+Bali&ll=%4040.7455096%2C-74.0083012%2C14z&hl=en&type=search

`place_id` for the same hotel in Google Hotels in browser: [https://www.google.com/travel/search?q=ritz%20carlton%20bali&g2lb=4965990%2C4969803%2C72277293%...](https://www.google.com/travel/search?q=ritz%20carlton%20bali&g2lb=4965990%2C4969803%2C72277293%2C72302247%2C72317059%2C72406588%2C72414906%2C72421566%2C72471280%2C72472051%2C72481459%2C72485658%2C72560029%2C72573224%2C72616120%2C72619927%2C72647020%2C72648289%2C72686036%2C72760082%2C72803964%2C72808078%2C72825294%2C72827241%2C72832976%2C72852291%2C72882230%2C72885032%2C72903276&hl=en-US&gl=us&ssta=1&ts=CAESCgoCCAMKAggDEAAqBwoFOgNVU0Q&qs=CAAgASgAMidDaGtJdl9IeWlOS0hwZjZ5QVJvTUwyY3ZNWG96ZEdKblozQnpFQUU&ap=MABoAQ&ictx=111&ved=0CAAQ5JsGahcKEwig-PfSj_mLAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQEA)

@sonika-serpapi Interesting. However, that would be the other way round, meaning it is possible to use Google Hotels' Property Token to retrieve Google Maps' Place ID.