HomeToGo Scraper — Vacation Rental Prices, Villas & Holiday Home Data

Scrape vacation rental search results and detailed listings from HomeToGo (hometogo.com) — Europe's leading vacation-rental metasearch engine — and get structured holiday home prices, villa data, amenities, ratings and booking links as clean JSON on Apify. The Actor resolves a destination (e.g. Algarve, Portugal) via HomeToGo's autocomplete API, pages through the search results, and enriches each listing with detail fields from HomeToGo's internal JSON payloads — no browser, plain HTTP, from just $0.001 per listing.

Built for market research, price monitoring and rental investment analysis, it runs on Apify's infrastructure with API access, scheduling, webhooks, and proxy rotation built in.

Main Use Cases

• Vacation rental market research — benchmark nightly and total prices per destination, track provider mix, and map rating distributions across Europe and the USA.
• Price monitoring for short-term rentals — schedule weekly runs to track holiday home prices by season and compare villa rental prices across regions.
• Competitive benchmarking for property managers & STR revenue managers — audit how your listings (and competitors') are presented on HomeToGo: amenities, photos, review counts, provider deeplinks.
• Travel data startups & analysts — get a clean, structured feed of HomeToGo vacation rental inventory for a destination, market, or custom listing set without building and maintaining your own scraper.
• Rental market investment analysis — evaluate vacation rental markets and destinations before acquiring or listing properties, using real nightly price and amenity signals.

How It Works

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and click Start.
2. Enter a destination (e.g. Algarve, Portugal) — the Actor resolves it to a HomeToGo location id via the autocomplete API — or paste direct URLs in "Direct listing URLs" (rental URLs https://www.hometogo.com/rental/{offerId} and search URLs https://www.hometogo.com/search/{locationId} both work).
3. Optionally set check-in/check-out dates, adults, and caps (maxItems, maxRequestsPerCrawl).
4. If the search endpoint is Cloudflare-blocked, enable Apify proxy (residential group) in the Proxy configuration input.
5. Run, then download the dataset as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel — or call it via the Apify API.

No browser is used: the Actor reads HomeToGo's own autocomplete, search (_format=json) and /searchdetails JSON surfaces with CheerioCrawler, making it fast and cheap.

Track Vacation Rental Prices for Market Research

HomeToGo aggregates millions of offers from thousands of providers (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and local property managers), so one destination search returns a broad cross-provider sample of the market. Use the price and priceDisplay fields to track nightly "from" prices, and pair runs with the check-in/check-out inputs to measure high season vs. shoulder season spreads. Because records include provider, rating, reviewCount and propertyType, you can slice the data by provider, quality tier and property segment straight out of the dataset — input for a vacation rental price monitoring dashboard, a holiday home price index, or a market research tool.

Compare Holiday Home Listings Across Regions

Run the Actor once per destination (or use Apify's scheduler to run a batch) to compare villa rental prices, beach house prices and cottage prices across regions — e.g. Algarve vs. Costa del Sol, Tuscany vs. Provence, or Florida vs. Hawaii. Each record carries bedrooms, bathrooms, persons, squareMeter, latitude/longitude and amenities, so you can normalize listings by size and feature set before comparing. The directUrls input also lets you benchmark a fixed set of specific listings over time — ideal for tracking a competitor's vacation rental pricing week over week.

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
destination	string	Search destination, e.g. Algarve, Portugal or Miami Beach, Florida. Resolved via HomeToGo's autocomplete API. Required unless directUrls is set.	—
directUrls	array	Scrape specific listings directly, one per line. Accepts rental URLs (/rental/{offerId} → full detail scrape) and search URLs (/search/{locationId} → items are picked up from that search first). Skips the destination search.	[]
checkIn	string	Optional check-in date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for flexible dates.	—
checkOut	string	Optional check-out date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for flexible dates.	—
adults	integer	Number of adult guests for the search.	2
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of rental listings to scrape (results + details). Free users are capped at 10 items.	100
includeOfferDetails	boolean	Fetch each listing's detail page for extra fields (bedrooms, bathrooms, ratings, provider, description, amenities, rooms). Off = faster/cheaper search-level data only (1 request per search page instead of 1 per listing). Direct rental URLs are always fully scraped regardless.	true
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	Hard safety cap on the total number of HTTP requests made by this run.	500
proxy	object	Standard Apify proxy picker. Enable + choose a residential group if Cloudflare blocks direct access.	off

Output

Each dataset item is one rental listing. In search-level mode (includeOfferDetails: false, billed result) records contain: offerId, title, destination, price, priceDisplay, currency, bedrooms, persons, propertyType, latitude, longitude, images, rating summary and bookingUrl/detailUrl — pushed straight from the search payload (~30 listings per request).

In detail mode (includeOfferDetails: true, billed offer-detail) records are enriched with the full field set: location, bathrooms, squareMeter, amenities, niceId, rentalObjectId, provider, providerId, checkInTime, checkOutTime, petFriendly, description, rooms and the complete rating summary (rating, starValue, maxStarValue, reviewCount, reviewsWithTextCount, ratingLabel).

Example Input JSON

{
  "destination": "Algarve, Portugal",
  "checkIn": "2027-06-19",
  "checkOut": "2027-06-26",
  "adults": 2,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeOfferDetails": true
}

Example Output JSON

{
  "offerId": "c8c94ed9aa854a97",
  "niceId": "HLPYHSF",
  "rentalObjectId": "cb9b94547dc255da",
  "title": "Vacation home with private pool & BBQ | Water view",
  "destination": "Kahaluu-Keauhou, North Kona, United States",
  "price": 412,
  "priceDisplay": "€412",
  "currency": "€",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "persons": 6,
  "propertyType": "House",
  "squareMeter": "186 m²",
  "amenities": ["Private pool", "Air conditioning", "WiFi", "Parking", "Grill", "Balcony"],
  "latitude": 19.555658,
  "longitude": -155.964284,
  "images": ["https://cdn.hometogo.net/large/v1/349/4af/efb9947c26a19d14047ab7743b.jpg"],
  "rating": "9.9",
  "starValue": "5.0",
  "maxStarValue": "5.0",
  "reviewCount": 89,
  "reviewsWithTextCount": 43,
  "ratingLabel": "Outstanding",
  "provider": "Kona Coast Vacations",
  "providerId": "streamline",
  "bookingUrl": "https://www.hometogo.com/deeplink/?params=...",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.hometogo.com/rental/c8c94ed9aa854a97",
  "checkInTime": "04:00pm",
  "checkOutTime": "11:00am",
  "petFriendly": false,
  "description": "Oceanfront Keauhou Home w/ Pool + Walk to Pickleball...",
  "rooms": []
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Integrations & Scheduling — Weekly Rental Price Monitoring

The Actor runs entirely on Apify, so it plugs into your existing stack without extra infrastructure:

• API access — call it programmatically and fetch results via the Apify API, or use the Python/JavaScript SDK.
• Scheduler — set up a weekly or monthly schedule to auto-track vacation rental prices by destination and compare holiday home pricing across seasons.
• Webhooks — trigger your own pipeline (database, dashboard, notification) whenever a run finishes.
• Integrations — connect via Make, Zapier, n8n, or Google Sheets through Apify integrations to feed a vacation rental market research tool or price monitoring dashboard.

Related Actors

• Airbnb Scraper — the most-used vacation rental scraper on the Apify Store: listings, prices, ratings and host details from Airbnb.
• Booking Scraper — accommodation and hotel data from Booking.com: prices, ratings, addresses and reviews.
• Apartments.com Scraper — US rental listing data from Apartments.com, complements the vacation-rental datasets with long-term rentals.
• TripAdvisor Reviews Scraper — hotel and restaurant reviews for the travel/hospitality side of your research.

FAQ

Is there an official HomeToGo API? Yes — HomeToGo has an official GraphQL API (www.hometogo.com/public/api) for affiliates and partners, but it requires a partner agreement, an API key and whitelisted origins. It is not self-serve. This Actor fills the gap: anyone can pull the same aggregate vacation rental inventory by destination and dates, paying only per result.

Is this a good alternative to scraping Airbnb or Vrbo separately? HomeToGo is a metasearch engine, so its results already aggregate offers from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and hundreds of local providers. One run gives you a cross-provider view of a market instead of a single-platform feed — useful for vacation rental market research and price comparison.

How do I scrape vacation rental prices? Enter a destination (optionally with check-in/check-out dates) and run. Price and priceDisplay fields hold the nightly "from" price shown in search results. Set includeOfferDetails: false in fast mode for a cheap market scan, or true for enriched records.

Does it use a browser / is it fast and cheap? No browser — plain HTTP via CheerioCrawler against HomeToGo's JSON surfaces. Compute usage is minimal (256 MB) and billing is per-result, so small runs cost cents.

Can I track specific listings over time? Yes — paste listing URLs in directUrls and schedule weekly runs to benchmark how a property's pricing changes.

What about review texts? Individual review texts are loaded client-side on HomeToGo's reviews page and are not present in the embedded JSON. This Actor extracts the full ratings summary (score, star value, review count, label); the reviews field is reserved for a future review-text extension.

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

• Purpose — provide structured vacation rental data (search results and listing details) from HomeToGo for market research, price comparison, and rental market analysis powered by AI agents.
• Minimal input — call the Actor with just {"destination": "Algarve, Portugal"} (or a directUrls array) and read the dataset. Optional: checkIn, checkOut, adults, maxItems.
• Output fields — each item is one listing: offerId, title, destination, price, priceDisplay, currency, bedrooms, bathrooms, persons, propertyType, squareMeter, amenities, latitude, longitude, images, rating summary (rating, starValue, reviewCount, ratingLabel), provider, bookingUrl, detailUrl, checkInTime, checkOutTime, petFriendly, description, rooms.
• Behaviors — deterministic, one record per listing, stable field names; rate-limited HTTP requests; optional Apify proxy for blocked endpoints; free users capped at 10 items per run.
• Billing — pay-per-result: $0.001 per search-level result (includeOfferDetails: false) and $0.0018 per detail-enriched record (includeOfferDetails: true or direct rental URLs), plus a per-run start event. A listing is billed exactly once.

Legality — scraping may be subject to HomeToGo's Terms of Service and applicable law. Use responsibly, respect rate limits, and check the site's robots.txt. This Actor is provided as-is for research and benchmarking.

Known limitations — price is the nightly "from" price shown on the search listing; the full price breakdown (per-night vs total, taxes) is loaded client-side and is not available without a browser. Prices are date-dependent. Some listings may lack certain fields (e.g. no reviews yet → reviewCount: 0). The search JSON shape can change if HomeToGo A/B-tests its frontend — the parser is defensive and tries several paths.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by HomeToGo or its parent companies. It accesses publicly available data on hometogo.com. The dataset contains no personal data — it is limited to public rental listing information (property details, prices, ratings, providers and public booking links); no emails, phone numbers or guest data are collected or exported. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use complies with HomeToGo's Terms of Service, applicable laws, and robots.txt, and for how you use or redistribute the data.

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