Client projectData pipelinesAutomationHospitality and restaurants

A web scraping pipeline for a hotel-intelligence company, plus a same-day audit of 169 properties

A US hotel-intelligence company. 2024 to 2026, 1 year 9 months.

open properties matched to Booking.com IDs in that audit
96
hotel records audited on 28 May 2026
169
verified addresses in the outbound list, from 13,000 raw contacts
8,869
marketing-site deployments from 15 to 19 April 2026
22

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They're charging me $600 a month to apply patches. And every time I ask for a change, it's like a big, long ordeal.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the agency that ran its website before we took it over, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 23:55

We audit work that we do that is really just a lot of flipping through a spreadsheet, looking up hotels on the internet, performing some actions, and then being done.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the manual research our browser agents then took over, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 9:43

That's perfect.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on our screening task for scraping engineers: reverse-engineer the API, no browser automation allowed, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 19:58

So if that is something that you have expertise in, I'm happy to let you turn that over.

A US hotel-intelligence company, handing us its marketing website, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 20:01

Okay, let me find out about that, because you know what they're really good about? Billing me.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the agency that had been running its website, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 23:51

Now that I look at it, we got a new phone number, and I don't think they ever changed it. And it also says that that's wrong, too. We're not at Inc., and I asked them to change that, too.

A US hotel-intelligence company, reviewing the marketing site the agency had left untouched, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 23:09

They lost connection to even run my website a year ago. And I didn't even find out until just now.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the agency we replaced, a month before the rebuild shipped, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 23:55

So, you know, if I want to make a change, this is very difficult to do right now.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the report portal we then audited, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 24:55

If you have somebody jump in and look at it, something you can take over, I am willing to just transfer it to you.

A US hotel-intelligence company, handing over its website and the portal behind it, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 23:30

Perfect. Okay. So the plan now is to start the outreach and see how that goes.

A US hotel-intelligence company, agreeing the first outbound test on the verified list, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 4:38

Can you do me a favor and send me some samples of the emails that you're sending out? I did get one from a friend of mine.

A US hotel-intelligence company, after a friend forwarded one of the campaign emails, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 22:09

I get like five or six a month on that census.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the demo requests its census product drew on its own, before outreach, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 15:09

In the hotel space, the guest review process has become non-believable, and it got saturated with a million bots and AI things, and people just don't care anymore, so they don't pay much attention to them.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on why its review product stayed out of the pitch, on a recorded call, 23 February 2026, at 12:00

I'm really just looking for somebody who can help me fill gaps, so to speak.

A US hotel-intelligence company, on the SQL engineer it wanted placed, on a recorded call, 27 March 2026, at 20:20

Attached is an Excel sheet with 169 hotels on it. I listed the name/address of each. Here is what I need done.

A US hotel-intelligence company, briefing the audit that went back the same business day, by email, 28 May 2026

Thank you so much!

A US hotel-intelligence company, closing the first scraping contract on Upwork, in a review, September 2025

Web scraping pipeline at a glance

Challenge
A US hotel-intelligence company needed data collection for its reports and support taking over its website and legacy portal.
Solution
We supported its collection pipeline, prepared an outbound program, rebuilt its marketing site, and documented a portal takeover path.
Result
An audit of 169 hotel records returned 96 open-property matches to Booking.com IDs the same business day, in May 2026.

The web scraping pipeline challenge

A US hotel-intelligence company ran its competitor-rate collectors on self-hosted servers and checked its data by hand. It needed Python scraping capacity that stays reachable against sites that block automated traffic, engineers it could trust with that work, and, from early 2026, an outbound engine and a marketing site it could own.

What went into the web scraping pipeline

Web scrapingData pipelineRemote teamWebsiteOutbound and email

  1. The architecture of the pipeline itself: many sources, each with its own collector, schedule and failure handling, normalized into one store that the client's comp set, rate tracking, census and review reports read from

  2. Reverse-engineered private APIs in place of browser automation where available

  3. API-first Python collectors with residential and mobile proxy rotation, retry and anti-blocking strategy, writing results into the client's MariaDB through stored procedures

More of what we built8
  1. Scheduled collection and monitoring for the multi-source pipeline

  2. Engineers placed on the collection work after a documented screening task, a 24-hour reverse-engineering exercise with no Selenium allowed, and a paid trial, with a backup pool behind them

  3. A same-day audit of 169 hotel records on 28 May 2026, matching 96 open properties to Booking.com IDs

  4. An outbound list prepared for the client: 13,000 raw contacts narrowed to 8,869 verified addresses, then 12 personas and seven-email sequences

  5. First outreach to 2,064 contacts on 20 March 2026; campaign reporting and copy revisions followed

  6. A marketing-site rebuild as a Next.js front end over headless WordPress, with 22 Vercel deployments from 15 to 19 April 2026

  7. Technical discovery of the client's legacy portal, June to August 2026, with a takeover tracker and a deployment-validation runbook gated on a tested restore

  8. A documented hiring pipeline for the client's backend support: an NDA, a screening phase and a paid-trial phase, with recorded interviews

See it working, under proof

Web scraping pipeline results

The engagement grew from placed scraping engineers to collection capacity, a verified outbound list, and a rebuilt marketing site. What they hired us for next: a portal audit and takeover runbook, plus a backend-support hiring pipeline through 2026. In May, an audit of 169 hotel records returned 96 open-property matches to Booking.com IDs the same day.

16 lines from the client, under proof

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What this would cost today

Done again today, work like this usually costs $1.5K to $3K (Scraper and data-feed rescue). The free plan says whether it fits before anything is priced.

  • Scraper and data-feed rescue

    Take over the pipeline that keeps breaking and keep clean data moving: blocks, captchas, layout changes, retries, and an alert when a run finds nothing.

    $1.5K to $3K, usually fixed-price · optional monthly run

    1 to 3 weeks

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