Scrapingdog Weekly Changelog: Nov2-8, 2026

It was a busy week on the product side. Two brand-new Airbnb APIs shipped, giving developers a complete path from searching stays to pulling detailed listing data. We also fixed a long-standing annoyance in Google search results, improved Yandex Images extraction in General Scraper, and made the Yelp Place API available in the dashboard Playground. Here is everything that went live this week, along with ideas for how to put each update to work. Whether you build travel tools, collect search data, or analyze local businesses, there is something here for you.

The headline release of the week is the Airbnb Search API. It lets you search Airbnb stays using filters for dates, guests, price, property type, and amenities, so you can narrow results down to exactly the listings you care about instead of sorting through everything manually.

Flexibility was a priority. You can customize the regional domain and the currency, which makes it easy to view results the way a local traveler would see them. You can also apply booking preferences and paginate through results, so larger searches are simple to collect page by page. Everything is available directly from the API or from the Playground, where you can test a query before writing any code.

Great for: travel apps, price comparison tools, and market research on short-term rentals. If you track how nightly prices shift across dates or regions, the combination of date, guest, and price filters gives you a clean, repeatable way to do it.

Where the Search API helps you find listings, the Airbnb Place API helps you understand them. Give it a place ID and it returns listing details, ratings, photos, amenities, and host information in a single request.

You can set your preferred language and currency, and you can add optional stay dates to retrieve available pricing for a specific trip. Like the Search API, it works from both the API and the Playground, so exploring a listing takes only a few clicks, even if you have never used the API before.

Great for: enriching your own listing data, comparing amenities across properties, and building detail pages that show photos, ratings, and host information without any manual collection.

The two APIs are designed to complement each other. A typical workflow starts with the Search API to find stays that match your dates, group size, budget, and must-have amenities. Each result includes a place ID, which you can then pass to the Place API to pull the full listing profile and, when you supply stay dates, the available pricing. That gives you a complete search-to-details pipeline without stitching together separate tools.

General Scraper now does a better job with Yandex Images. Search results on supported Yandex Images pages are embedded in the page data, and the scraper now extracts them properly. Responses include image details, source links, and pagination information.

In practice, this means you can collect image results and move through multiple pages of results more reliably. It is a useful upgrade for anyone doing image search research, building visual datasets, or checking where images appear across the web, all from one familiar scraper.

The Yelp Place API is now available in the dashboard Playground. You can look up a business using either a place ID or a business URL, choose a regional domain, and retrieve ratings, review counts, opening hours, photos, and other available business information.

Because it runs in the Playground, you can inspect the response and confirm it has the fields you need before integrating it into your own project. It is a quick way to evaluate local business data, whether you are building a directory, monitoring reputation, or comparing competitors.

Google search results often use encoded redirect links rather than pointing straight to the destination. This week we improved how those links are resolved, so Google Search API responses can now return the destination URL directly.

We also updated the handling so that Google challenge pages and redirect pages are no longer returned as destination links. That matters because a wrong link can quietly pollute a dataset or break a downstream step, such as fetching the page that a result points to. With this fix, the links in your responses are more likely to be the real destinations you expect, which means cleaner data and less filtering and cleanup work on your side.

• New: Airbnb Search API, with filters for dates, guests, price, property, and amenities

• New: Airbnb Place API, with listing details, ratings, photos, amenities, and host information

• Improved: Yandex Images extraction in General Scraper, including image details, source links, and pagination

• Updated: Yelp Place API now available in the Playground

• Fixed: Google destination link resolution, with no more challenge or redirect pages returned as links

We would love to hear how you use these updates. If you try the Airbnb APIs, test the Yelp Place API in the Playground, or notice cleaner Google results, send us your feedback or feature requests. Your input directly shapes what we build next, so do not hesitate to reach out. Check back next week for the latest updates.