HomeToGo Scraper [$1💰] | Vacation Rentals | Villa Prices

What does HomeToGo Scraper do?

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.

Why use HomeToGo Scraper?

• 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. Optionally enable Apify proxy (residential group) if your IP gets blocked — normally it is not needed.
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. Bot protection is handled internally, without a browser. Detail data is fetched in batches of 50 offers per request through the internal /searchdetails API.

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 price (per night), totalPrice and totalPriceDisplay to track 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
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	Hard safety cap on the total number of HTTP requests made by this run.	500
proxy	object	Optional standard Apify proxy picker. Not needed normally; enable a residential group only if your IP is blocked.	off

Output

Each dataset item is one rental listing, enriched with the full detail set: location, destination, bedrooms, bathrooms, persons, squareMeter, propertyType, amenities, niceId, rentalObjectId, provider, providerId, priceDisplay, totalPriceDisplay, duration, bookedOut, petFriendly and the complete rating summary (rating, starValue, maxStarValue, reviewCount, reviewsWithTextCount, ratingLabel). Details are fetched in batches of 50 offers per HTTP request. price is always the nightly price; totalPrice is the stay total; bookedOut flags listings unavailable for the selected dates (their price fields are null).

Example Input JSON

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

Example Output JSON

{
  "offerId": "2a75f5ddddc7e7db",
  "niceId": "H60EZU7",
  "rentalObjectId": "61423f37b0e2bca6",
  "title": "Apartment with 1 bedroom for 2 persons",
  "destination": "Saint Ambroise, Paris, Île-de-France",
  "location": {
    "type": "geo",
    "level1": "France",
    "level2": "Île-de-France",
    "level3": "Paris",
    "level4": "11th arrondissement of Paris",
    "level5": "Saint Ambroise"
  },
  "price": 113,
  "priceDisplay": "$113",
  "priceType": "perNight",
  "totalPrice": 790,
  "totalPriceDisplay": "$790",
  "currency": "USD",
  "duration": 7,
  "bookedOut": false,
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "persons": 2,
  "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "squareMeter": 21,
  "amenities": ["Dishwasher", "TV", "WiFi", "Microwave", "No pets", "Kitchen"],
  "latitude": 48.8589968,
  "longitude": 2.374183,
  "images": ["https://cdn.hometogo.net/large/v1/846/199/8b1cd59fffeb164e2c025aa8a7.jpg"],
  "rating": 8.8,
  "starValue": 4.4,
  "maxStarValue": 5,
  "reviewCount": 235,
  "reviewsWithTextCount": 33,
  "ratingLabel": "Very good",
  "provider": "HomeToGo",
  "providerId": "distributionHub",
  "bookingUrl": "https://www.hometogo.com/deeplink/?params=...",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.hometogo.com/rental/2a75f5ddddc7e7db",
  "checkInTime": null,
  "checkOutTime": null,
  "petFriendly": false,
  "description": null,
  "rooms": null,
  "reviews": null
}

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.

How much does it cost to scrape HomeToGo?

The Actor uses pay-per-result billing: $0.001 per scraped listing (billed as the result event), plus a small per-run start event. A 100-listing run costs about $0.10; a 1,000-listing run costs about $1.00. Thanks to 50-offer detail batches and no browser, compute usage is minimal — the Actor runs comfortably on 512 MB of memory. Apify's free tier includes monthly usage credits; free users are additionally capped at 10 dataset items per run.

Tips for better results

• Set checkIn/checkOut for real prices. Without dates HomeToGo returns a default/arbitrary stay, so totals are not comparable.
• Control spend with maxItems and maxRequestsPerCrawl. Details are fetched in batches of 50 listings, so a 1,000-listing run needs only about 20 detail requests, plus 1 request per 300-listing search page.
• directUrls accepts both /rental/{offerId} and /search/{locationId} URLs. Rental URLs without a location parameter are automatically bootstrapped via autocomplete.
• Only enable Apify proxy if HomeToGo blocks your IP; the Actor normally avoids bot challenges without a proxy.

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 is the nightly price, totalPrice the stay total and bookedOut tells you whether the offer is available for the selected dates.

Why do search prices differ from detail prices? Search results show HomeToGo's advertised "from" price across providers, while the detail API returns the bookable rate (often including taxes/fees or a specific provider). Detail prices are the more accurate figure, so the Actor always enriches every record with them.

Does it use a browser / is it fast and cheap? No browser — plain HTTP via CheerioCrawler against HomeToGo's JSON surfaces. Detail records are fetched 50 at a time, so even large runs use very few requests. Compute usage is minimal (512 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 (per night), priceDisplay, priceType, totalPrice, totalPriceDisplay, duration, bookedOut, 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; batched detail requests (50 offers per call); optional Apify proxy if the IP is blocked; free users capped at 10 items per run.
• Billing — pay-per-result: $0.001 per scraped listing (billed as the result event), 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 price and totalPrice is the stay total returned by HomeToGo's internal offer API; taxes and fees may still change at the provider checkout, and the detail rate can differ from the search teaser price. Prices are date-dependent, so set checkIn/checkOut for accurate totals; without dates HomeToGo may return a default stay. Unavailable listings (bookedOut: true) have null price fields. Some listings may lack certain fields (e.g. no square meters or no reviews yet → reviewCount: 0). HomeToGo's JSON shape can change if it 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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