README.md

Google Travel Hotel pricing Scraping

This script is designed to scrape hotel prices from Google Travel for a list of hotels and dates. It uses the Playwright library to automate the process of searching for hotels, filling in dates, and extracting prices from various online travel agencies (OTAs).

Features

• CSV Input: Reads data from a CSV file where the input values (such as dates) can be stored.
• Date Filling: Automatically fills check-in and check-out date fields on web forms.
• Web Scraping: Uses Playwright to interact with web elements and extract data.

Requirements

Python 3.7+

Playwright library

  pip install playwright

Pandas library

  pip install pandas

CSV library

  pip install csv

Features

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory.
2. Install the required libraries by running

 pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Update the CheckinDates list in the script with the desired dates.

CheckinDates = [
   "9/25/2024",
   "9/26/2024"
   ]

4. Update the file_path variable with the path to your hotel list CSV file.
5. Run the script using python main.py.

Input

Table file_path .csv as file_path:

HotelName	Checkin-Date
Hotel 1	09/25/2024
Hotel 2	09/25/2024

Output

The script will output an Excel file named shoprateResult.xlsx containing the scraped data. Table save_data .xlsx as Shoprate Result:

Hotel	Checkin Date	Checkout Date	Agoda	Booking.com
Hotel 1	09/25/2024	09/26/2024	PriceTHB	PriceTHB
Hotel 1	09/26/2024	09/27/2024	PriceTHB	PriceTHB
Hotel 2	09/25/2024	09/26/2024	PriceTHB	PriceTHB
Hotel 2	09/26/2024	09/27/2024	PriceTHB	PriceTHB

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