# Borrow A Boat Scraper (`dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper`) Actor

Scrape boat rentals from borrowaboat.com. Filter by destination, dates, boat type, guests, cabins, price, and sort, or paste a Borrow A Boat URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Borrow A Boat Scraper

Want [Borrow A Boat](https://www.borrowaboat.com/) rentals in a spreadsheet? This scraper makes it easy.

Use **structured filters** — better for AI agents — **or** paste an **`input_url`**. When `input_url` is set it overrides the filters.

Scrape boat and yacht charters from borrowaboat.com. Filter by destination, dates, boat type, guests, cabins, price, charter, and sort, or paste a Borrow A Boat URL. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

### 💡 Perfect for...

- **Travel brands:** Export sailboats, catamarans, motorboats, and gulets by destination.
- **Dashboards:** Track daily prices, length, year, and guest capacity.
- **Market research:** Compare charter inventory, captain options, and prices.
- **Data analysts:** Export structured rows with public listing URLs and photos.
- **🤖 AI Agents:** Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live Borrow A Boat results.
- **📚 RAG Systems:** Feed titles, locations, and prices into retrieval pipelines.
- **🔗 AI Workflows:** Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

### ✨ Why you'll love this scraper

- 🔗 **Input URL or Filters:** Paste a Borrow A Boat search or destination URL, or pick the same filters as the site. `input_url` always wins when set.
- 🎯 **Website-Matched Filters:** Destination, dates, boat type, charter, guests, cabins, daily price, and sort.
- 🌐 **Full listing cards:** Daily price, marina, length, year, guests, beds, captain, and photo.

### 📦 What's inside the data?

`id`, `url`, `title`, `price`, `currency`, `location`, `image`, `images`, `guests`, `berths`, `cabins`, `length_m`, `boat_type`, `year`, `rating`, `reviews`, `skipper`, `horsepower`, `start_date`, `end_date`

### 🚀 Quick start

**Option A:** paste `https://www.borrowaboat.com/en/search/?location=greece&boatType=sailboat`.
**Option B:** pick a destination or other filter and set `max_results`.

**Input Example (filters):**

```json
{
  "location": "greece",
  "boat_type": "sailboat",
  "guests": 6,
  "sort": "price-asc",
  "max_results": 50
}
```

**Input Example (URL):**

```json
{
  "input_url": "https://www.borrowaboat.com/en/c/greece/",
  "max_results": 50
}
```

**Output Example:**

```json
{
  "id": "64193",
  "url": "https://www.borrowaboat.com/en/b/motorboat-garin-1550-flybridge-64193/",
  "title": "Motorboat Garin 1550 Flybridge",
  "price": 1034,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "location": "Club Náutico Altea, Altea, Spain",
  "boat_type": "Motorboat",
  "year": 2000,
  "guests": 10,
  "length_m": 15.5,
  "skipper": "With Captain",
  "horsepower": 480
}
```

**Output fields:**

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `id` | Listing id. |
| `url` | Public listing page. |
| `title` | Listing title. |
| `price` | Daily price when shown. |
| `currency` | `EUR`, `USD`, or `GBP`. |
| `location` | Marina, city, and country. |
| `image` | Main photo. |
| `images` | Listing photos on the card. |
| `guests` | Maximum guests when shown. |
| `berths` | Beds when shown. |
| `cabins` | Cabins when shown. |
| `length_m` | Length in metres. |
| `boat_type` | Sailboat, motorboat, catamaran, and similar. |
| `year` | Year built when shown. |
| `rating` | Guest rating when shown. |
| `reviews` | Number of reviews when shown. |
| `skipper` | Captain, skipper, or bareboat wording when shown. |
| `horsepower` | Engine power when shown. |
| `start_date` | Check-in date, year-month-day, when dates were set. |
| `end_date` | Check-out date when dates were set. |

### 📋 Input reference

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `input_url` | string | No | — | Borrow A Boat search, destination, or boat-type URL. Overrides every filter. |
| `location` | dropdown | No | any | Country or cruising area. |
| `start_date` | string | No | — | Check-in (year-month-day). |
| `end_date` | string | No | — | Check-out (year-month-day). |
| `boat_type` | dropdown | No | any | Sailboat, catamaran, motorboat, and more. |
| `charter` | dropdown | No | any | Bareboat, skippered, or crewed. |
| `guests` | integer | No | — | Minimum guests. |
| `cabins` | integer | No | — | Minimum cabins. |
| `price_min` | integer | No | — | Lowest daily price. |
| `price_max` | integer | No | — | Highest daily price. |
| `sort` | dropdown | No | recommended | Recommended, price, reviews, or discount. |
| `max_results` | integer | No | 50 | How many rows to return (1–2000). |

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# Actor input Schema

## `input_url` (type: `string`):

Paste a Borrow A Boat search or destination URL. Overrides every filter when set.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Country or cruising area.

## `start_date` (type: `string`):

Check-in date (year-month-day).

## `end_date` (type: `string`):

Check-out date (year-month-day).

## `boat_type` (type: `string`):

Sailboat, catamaran, motorboat, speedboat, RIB, gulet, or houseboat.

## `charter` (type: `string`):

Bareboat, skippered, or crewed.

## `guests` (type: `integer`):

Minimum guests.

## `cabins` (type: `integer`):

Minimum cabins.

## `price_min` (type: `integer`):

Lowest daily price.

## `price_max` (type: `integer`):

Highest daily price.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Same sort choices as the Borrow A Boat results. Discount sort needs dates.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

How many rows to return (1–2000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "",
  "boat_type": "",
  "charter": "",
  "sort": "",
  "max_results": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view of scraped listings using the dataset 'overview' view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped listings from the default dataset without view transformation.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dadhalfdev/borrow-a-boat-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FoKvMGHTOsGg8wxOm/builds/q8JNahxV8zxD9FOtO/openapi.json