Google Hotels Autocomplete
The Google Hotels Autocomplete API provides real-time location and hotel name suggestions as users type, powered by the same suggestion engine behind Google Hotels. Build type-ahead search experiences for travel apps, hotel booking platforms, and destination discovery tools.
What You Get
- Hotel suggestions — Specific accommodations matching the query (e.g., "Paris Hotel Las Vegas", "Hilton London Bankside")
- Location suggestions — Cities, regions, and landmarks (e.g., "Paris, France", "Times Square, New York")
- Direct booking links — Each suggestion includes a ready-to-use
scrappa_google_hotels_linkto fetch full hotel search results - Thumbnails & metadata — Hotel images, Knowledge Graph IDs (
kgmid), and property tokens for deeper lookups
Common Use Cases
- Travel search bars — Power autocomplete dropdowns in hotel booking interfaces with instant suggestions
- Destination discovery — Help users explore locations by surfacing relevant cities and landmarks as they type
- Hotel name resolution — Resolve partial hotel names to exact properties with unique identifiers and property tokens
- Multi-language support — Localize suggestions for 50+ languages using the
hlandglparameters
How It Works
Send a partial query (minimum 2 characters) and the API returns ranked suggestions from Google's hotel database. Use the type parameter to filter results:
hotel(default) — Returns only accommodation suggestions (specific hotels, resorts, hostels)location— Returns only geographic suggestions (cities, regions, landmarks)all— Returns both hotel and location suggestions together
Each suggestion includes a scrappa_google_hotels_link that you can call directly to get full hotel search results for that location or property — no extra parameter mapping needed.
Scrappa vs. Building Your Own
Google does not offer a public Hotels Autocomplete API. Building this yourself requires reverse-engineering Google's internal batchexecute protocol, handling protobuf-encoded payloads, and maintaining parsers as Google changes their internal format. Scrappa handles all of this, returning clean JSON with a simple REST interface.
Endpoint
/api/google-hotels/autocomplete
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Parameters
string
Required
Location search query
string
Optional
2-letter country code for localization (e.g., us, gb, de, fr)
string
Optional
2-letter language code for results (e.g., en, es, fr, de)
string
Optional
3-letter currency code used in suggestion links (e.g., USD, EUR, GBP)
string
Optional
Type of suggestions to return: location (cities/locations only), hotel (accommodations only), all (both). Default: hotel
Request Examples
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$response = Http::withHeaders([
'x-api-key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
])->get('https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin');
return $response->json();
fetch('https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin', {
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
const axios = require('axios');
axios.get('https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin', {
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}
})
.then(response => console.log(response.data))
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
import requests
headers = {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}
response = requests.get('https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin', headers=headers)
print(response.json())
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
uri = URI.parse('https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts JSON.parse(response.body)
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
client := &http.Client{}
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin", nil)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}
curl -X GET 'https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/autocomplete?q=Berlin' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
Response Schema
{
"search_parameters": {
"engine": "google_hotels_autocomplete",
"q": "Paris",
"gl": "us",
"hl": "en",
"currency": "USD"
},
"suggestions": [
{
"position": 1,
"value": "paris hotel las vegas",
"type": "accommodation",
"highlighted_words": [
"hotel las vegas"
],
"autocomplete_suggestion": "paris hotel las vegas",
"scrappa_google_hotels_link": "https://scrappa.co/api/google-hotels/search?q=Las+Vegas%2C+NV&check_in_date=2026-02-27&check_out_date=2026-02-28&adults=2&children=0¤cy=USD&hl=en&gl=us&property_token=ChgIgbj58O-AraJFGgovbS8wMzQ4czYwEAE",
"location": "Las Vegas, NV",
"thumbnail": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/grass/AKc-QJEPi1pQEfr-uPrS56QJayOxIX_eB0VMbaasFAlqvvL0jM_cI_a_D9_lrItRAZpRCCIRP8yh8iZqTQw-WRk7PCoe2Q=w92-h92-n-k-no",
"kgmid": "/m/0348s60",
"data_cid": "4991312229159558145",
"property_token": "ChgIgbj58O-AraJFGgovbS8wMzQ4czYwEAE",
"scrappa_link": "https://scrappa.co/api/search?q=paris+hotel+las+vegas&hl=en&gl=us&kgmid=%2Fm%2F0348s60"
}
],
"response_time_ms": 587
}