Rent the Runway Designer Rental Catalog Extractor

Rent the Runway is a designer clothing rental service: each style has a rental price, a retail value, size availability that changes with the delivery date, and sometimes a discounted purchase option. This actor collects that catalog in structured form, including the availability context behind each price.

It can browse a category, run a keyword search across the catalog, pull every style from one or more designers, or enrich a list of product URLs/IDs. Catalog browsing is HTTP-only and needs no account or proxy.

Modes

• Browse a category — 19 editor-curated categories (dresses, gowns, tops, handbags, jewelry, and more) plus the full catalog.
• Search by keyword and filters — keyword plus any combination of occasion, color, embellishment, neckline, style, print, sleeve, season, length, maternity and wedding filters.
• Browse designers — one or more designer names, IDs or designer URLs.
• Specific product URLs or IDs — paste product links or style IDs (for example CULTR24).

What each item includes

• Identity — productId, itemName, designer, designerId, category, categoryTree, detailUrl.
• Prices — rentalPrice for the selected rental type/duration, retailPrice, buyPrice when the item can be bought below retail, optional rentalPrice4Day and rentalPrice8Day, plus memberRentalPrice/memberPriceDiscount when a member price is published, in USD.
• Availability — sizesOffered (all sizes the style was made in), sizesAvailable (actually available for the chosen date/scope), availableSkuCount, availableUnits (units in rotation), availableUnitCount (subscription availability) and inStock.
• Product detail — description, stylistNotes, fitNotes, fabricComposition, sleeve, lengthInches, occasionTags, color, embellishments, neckline, stylePersonas, maternity, seasonality, programEligibility, publishedDate.
• Media — imageUrl (lead image) and images (all available angles, at high resolution).
• Reviews — rating (0-10), ratingSource (catalog-list when approximate, reviews when exact), reviewCount, reviewSummary, and up to maxReviewsPerProduct recent reviews when enabled (default 200).
• Run context — rentalType, rentalStartDate, rentalDuration, zipCode, recordType, scrapedAt.

Every field is omitted when the source does not have it; records never contain nulls, empty strings, empty arrays or placeholder text.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	Select	category	category, search, designer or productUrls.
category	Select	all	Category for category mode, or an optional category limit for search.
searchQuery	String	–	Free-text keyword for search. Optional; filters alone can browse.
designers	String list	–	Designer names, IDs or URLs for designer mode.
designer	Select	any	Curated designer filter for category/search runs.
customDesigner	String	–	Any designer outside the curated list; overrides designer.
productUrls	String list	–	Product URLs or style IDs for productUrls mode.
occasion	Select	–	Where you want to wear it.
color	Select	–	Primary color.
embellishment	Select	–	Embellishment detail.
neckline	Select	–	Neckline style.
stylePersona	Select	–	Overall style.
print	Select	–	Print or pattern.
sleeve	Select	–	Sleeve length.
seasonality	Select	–	Intended season.
length	Select	–	Garment length.
maternity	Select	–	Maternity or bump-friendly fit.
weddingOccasion	Select	–	Wedding setting or event.
weddingFormality	Select	–	Wedding dress code.
sizes	String list	–	Universal sizes 0-22; legacy S/M/L inputs are mapped.
rentalType	Select	oneTime	One-off rental, subscription, or subscription including sold-out styles.
rentalStartDate	String	blank	YYYY-MM-DD; blank uses the site's default window (about six months ahead).
rentalDuration	Select	4	4 or 8 days.
zipCode	String	10001	US ZIP used for availability and delivery pricing.
minRentalPrice	Number	–	Drop items below this rental price (USD).
maxRentalPrice	Number	–	Drop items above this rental price (USD).
minRating	Number	–	Drop items below this rating (0-10).
sortBy	Select	recommended	Recommended, newest, retail value, rental price or rating.
includeDetails	Boolean	true	Add descriptions, attributes, sizes and images from product pages.
includeAvailability	Boolean	true	Check the sizes actually available for the selected date/scope.
includeReviews	Boolean	false	Add review text/fit data per item.
maxReviewsPerProduct	Integer	200	Review cap when Include reviews is on (1-1000); pages are fetched until this bound or exhaustion.
includePriceTiers	Boolean	false	Add both 4-day and 8-day rental prices.
onlyNew	Boolean	false	Emit only product IDs not seen in a previous onlyNew run; useful for scheduled monitors.
maxItems	Integer	50	Record cap (1-10,000). Detail enrichment is practical up to 500 items; list-only runs can go to 10,000.

Examples

Wedding-guest dresses under $100

{
  "mode": "category",
  "category": "wedding-guest-dresses",
  "maxRentalPrice": 100,
  "minRating": 8,
  "maxItems": 40
}

Search for a floral dress in size 4, 4-day rental

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "floral dress",
  "sizes": ["4"],
  "rentalDuration": 4,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Every Reformation style, with both price tiers

{
  "mode": "designer",
  "designers": ["Reformation"],
  "includePriceTiers": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Enrich specific product links

{
  "mode": "productUrls",
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.renttherunway.com/shop/designers/cult_gaia/cassidy_gown",
    "MAR123"
  ],
  "includeReviews": true
}

Use cases

• Compare rent-versus-buy value across designers and categories.
• Monitor rental and retail prices before wedding or event season.
• Find what is genuinely in stock for a size and delivery date.
• Build style round-ups with high-resolution images and product links.
• Study fit feedback and reviewer measurements from the review data.

FAQ

Do I need an account, cookie or proxy? No. The catalog, product pages and review endpoints used here are public. The actor connects directly and manages any fallback internally.

What is the difference between the rental types? oneTime returns styles available for a specific rental date, duration and ZIP, with rental prices. subscription returns styles available in the membership closet; subscriptionAll also includes sold-out styles. Stock is scope-specific: a style can be sold out for subscription but available for a one-off rental.

Why is sizesAvailable missing on some records? It is only emitted when availability was checked. sizesOffered still lists every size the style was made in. Availability changes by date, duration and ZIP.

Why do some styles disappear when I change the date? The one-off catalog only includes styles with at least one available size for that date window. Sundays are not valid rental start dates; the actor falls back to the default date and says so in the run message.

Can I get all reviews for an item? Yes. The public review endpoint is paginated in pages of 40; includeReviews follows pages until exhaustion or maxReviewsPerProduct (default 200, max 1000). The total reviewCount is always reported.

What does the rating scale mean? Ratings are on Rent the Runway's 0-10 scale. ratingScale is included so the value is unambiguous.

How do I get both 4-day and 8-day prices? Set includePriceTiers to true. Each selected product is read separately.

Can I get more than 10,000 items? A single unfiltered search is capped at 10,000. Browse individual categories instead, or split the request by designer, occasion or other filters.

How do I run a scheduled monitor for only new items? Set onlyNew to true. The actor stores seen product IDs in a persistent key-value store and skips them on later runs, so each run returns only new styles.

Is this affiliated with Rent the Runway? No. This is an independent data extraction tool with no affiliation to Rent the Runway, Inc.

Limitations

• Availability is a snapshot for the selected date, duration and ZIP; it changes as inventory moves.
• One-off rental results exclude sold-out styles by design.
• maxReviewsPerProduct bounds review text (default 200, max 1000); the total review count is always reported.
• Care instructions, designer biographies and per-item membership rental prices are not exposed by the public payloads used here.
• Reserve availability reports which sizes are available, not how many units back each size.
• The default shipping ZIP is 10001 (New York); availability and delivery windows change with the ZIP.
• Very large runs with includeDetails enabled are slower because each item needs a compact product-detail request, a reviews page for the exact rating and a member-price request. 500 detailed rows are practical; list-only runs reach 10,000.
• onlyNew tracks the last 50,000 emitted IDs; older IDs are forgotten and may appear again.