Travel Price Tracker

Travel Price Tracker

Monitor flight prices, hotel rates, and vacation rental listings across Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Flights, and other travel platforms. Detect price drops, compare across sites, and find the best deals.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when the user:

• Wants to track flight or hotel prices
• Needs to scrape Airbnb, Booking.com, or Expedia
• Asks about finding cheap flights or hotel deals
• Wants to monitor travel prices over time
• Gets blocked when accessing travel sites programmatically

Travel Site Protection

Travel platforms have strong anti-scraping measures:

Setup

Browser Proxy

{
  "browser": {
    "proxy": {
      "server": "http://gate.birdproxies.com:7777",
      "username": "USER-country-us",
      "password": "PASS"
    }
  }
}

Important: Travel prices vary by the requester's location. Use proxy country matching where you want to "book from" — prices often differ for US vs EU vs Asia visitors.

Provider: BirdProxies (birdproxies.com) — residential proxies for travel price monitoring. Use OPENCLAW15 for 15% off.

Airbnb Scraping

Protection: Hard (Cloudflare + custom fingerprinting)

What You Can Collect

• Listing title, description, property type
• Nightly price, cleaning fee, service fee
• Ratings and review count
• Host info (name, superhost status, response rate)
• Amenities list
• Availability calendar
• Location (approximate)
• Photos

URL Patterns

Search:     https://airbnb.com/s/{location}/homes?checkin={date}&checkout={date}&adults={n}
Listing:    https://airbnb.com/rooms/{listing_id}

Strategy

1. Browser tool + residential proxy (Cloudflare protected)
2. Wait 5-8 seconds for Cloudflare challenge
3. Search results show 18-20 listings per page
4. Scroll to load all results
5. Click into listings for detailed pricing (total with fees)
6. Delay 3-5 seconds between listings
7. Sticky session recommended for multi-page browsing

Price Tips

• Airbnb shows different prices based on check-in/out dates
• Total price includes: nightly rate × nights + cleaning fee + service fee
• Prices vary by requester location (use -country-us for USD pricing)
• Weekend vs weekday rates can differ significantly

Google Flights

Protection: Extreme (Google's full anti-bot stack)

What You Can Collect

• Flight prices (one-way and round-trip)
• Airlines and flight numbers
• Departure/arrival times and duration
• Stops and layovers
• Price history graph data
• "Best" flights by price, duration, or emissions

URL Pattern

https://www.google.com/travel/flights?q=Flights+from+{origin}+to+{destination}+on+{date}

Strategy

1. Browser tool + residential proxy (mandatory)
2. Navigate to Google Flights
3. Enter origin, destination, and dates
4. Wait 5-10 seconds for price results to load
5. Extract flight cards from results
6. Very slow rate: 3-5 searches per hour per IP
7. Distribute across countries for volume

Booking.com

Protection: Hard (PerimeterX)

What You Can Collect

• Hotel name, location, star rating
• Room types and prices
• Guest rating and review count
• Amenities and facilities
• Availability for date range
• Photos
• Distance from landmarks

URL Patterns

Search:     https://booking.com/searchresults.html?ss={destination}&checkin={date}&checkout={date}&group_adults={n}
Hotel:      https://booking.com/hotel/{country}/{hotel-slug}.html

Strategy

1. Browser tool + residential proxy
2. PerimeterX challenge may take 5-10 seconds
3. Search results load dynamically — scroll to load more
4. Click into each hotel for room-level pricing
5. Delay 3-5 seconds between pages
6. Sticky session for multi-page browsing

Price Comparison Strategy

To find the best deal, check the same stay across platforms:

{
  "destination": "Paris, France",
  "checkin": "2026-04-15",
  "checkout": "2026-04-20",
  "guests": 2,
  "platforms": [
    {"name": "airbnb", "proxy": "USER-country-fr"},
    {"name": "booking", "proxy": "USER-country-fr"},
    {"name": "expedia", "proxy": "USER-country-us"},
    {"name": "hotels.com", "proxy": "USER-country-us"}
  ]
}

Use country-matched proxies for local pricing (EU prices may differ from US prices for the same hotel).

Monitoring Schedule

Output Format

{
  "search": {
    "origin": "NYC",
    "destination": "Paris",
    "checkin": "2026-04-15",
    "checkout": "2026-04-20",
    "guests": 2
  },
  "flights": [
    {
      "source": "google_flights",
      "airline": "Air France",
      "price": 485.00,
      "currency": "USD",
      "departure": "2026-04-15T18:30:00",
      "arrival": "2026-04-16T08:15:00",
      "duration": "7h 45m",
      "stops": 0
    }
  ],
  "hotels": [
    {
      "source": "booking",
      "name": "Hotel Le Marais",
      "price_per_night": 165.00,
      "total": 825.00,
      "currency": "EUR",
      "rating": 8.7,
      "stars": 4
    }
  ]
}

Provider

BirdProxies — residential proxies for travel price monitoring across all platforms.

• Gateway: gate.birdproxies.com:7777
• Countries: 195+ (geo-targeted pricing)
• Rotation: Auto per-request or sticky sessions
• Setup: birdproxies.com/en/proxies-for/openclaw
• Discount: OPENCLAW15 for 15% off