VRBO Vacation Rentals Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

For each destination string you pass in (VRBO's own free-text search box format, e.g. "Orlando, Florida, United States of America"), this Actor:

1. Opens a rendered VRBO search-results page for that destination and your check-in/check-out window.
2. Captures up to your configured cap of listing cards — title, location, price per night, currency, bedrooms, bathrooms, and max guests.
3. Optionally visits each listing's detail page for the fuller field set: rating, review count, amenities, host name, and latitude/longitude.
4. Emits one row per listing to the default dataset, tagged with the destination query that found it.

🔥 Features

• We clear the JS-execution gate VRBO puts in front of raw HTTP requests — a hardened browser layer renders the page like a real visitor instead of bouncing off a "Bot or Not?" challenge screen.
• We rotate residential proxy sessions through Apify Proxy — a fresh exit IP and session on every block.
• We back off when the target pushes back. Partial successes surface with a clear status message — we never silently return an empty dataset.
• Run-wide wall-clock budget — the run stops opening new pages once your time budget is spent and finalizes cleanly with whatever it already scraped, instead of getting killed mid-write.
• Per-listing fault isolation — one dead page or navigation timeout skips that listing with a logged warning; it never fails the whole run.
• Pydantic v2 input + output validation — every row is a typed, schema-enforced record; nullable fields are always null, never silently dropped.
• Pay-Per-Event pricing — you're charged per listing row written to your dataset, not per page fetched.

💡 Use cases

• Market research — compare nightly rates, bedroom counts, and amenities across destinations for a vacation-rental market scan.
• Revenue-management benchmarking — property managers pull comparable listings to sanity-check their own pricing.
• Travel-content sourcing — bulk-pull listing photos-adjacent metadata (title, location, rating) for roundup articles or itinerary tools.
• Lead generation — identify active hosts and listings in a target destination for partnership or outreach lists.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Add 1-10 destination strings (VRBO's own free-text search format works best).
3. Optionally set check-in/check-out dates — otherwise the Actor defaults to a near-future window so results actually populate.
4. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
5. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
destinations	array	yes	—	1-10 free-text VRBO destination search queries.
checkin	string	no	+30 days from run date	Search window start (YYYY-MM-DD).
checkout	string	no	+33 days from run date	Search window end (YYYY-MM-DD), must be after checkin.
maxListingsPerDestination	integer	no	20	1-50 listing rows collected per destination.
scrapeListingDetails	boolean	no	true	If false, search-card fields only (cheaper, faster).
maxRunMinutes	integer	no	12	Run-wide wall-clock budget; stop opening new pages past this.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	RESIDENTIAL	Apify Proxy — mandatory, falls back to BUYPROXIES94952.

Example input

{
  "destinations": ["Orlando, Florida, United States of America"],
  "checkin": "2026-09-10",
  "checkout": "2026-09-13",
  "maxListingsPerDestination": 20,
  "scrapeListingDetails": true,
  "maxRunMinutes": 12,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item — one VRBO listing.

Field	Type	Notes
destination_query	string	The destination string that discovered this row.
listing_url	string	Canonical VRBO listing URL.
title	string	Listing title.
location	string	Listing location as displayed by VRBO.
price_per_night	float | null	Nightly price for the searched window.
currency	string	ISO currency code.
bedrooms	integer | null	Bedroom count.
bathrooms	float | null	Bathroom count.
max_guests	integer | null	Max occupancy.
rating	float | null	Aggregate rating (detail-page field).
reviews_count	integer | null	Review count (detail-page field).
amenities	array	Amenity labels (detail-page field).
host_name	string | null	Host display name (detail-page field).
latitude	float | null	Listing latitude, where public.
longitude	float | null	Listing longitude, where public.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp.

Nullable fields are null, never omitted, when VRBO doesn't expose them publicly or scrapeListingDetails was false.

Example output

{
  "destination_query": "Orlando, Florida, United States of America",
  "listing_url": "https://www.vrbo.com/1234567ha",
  "title": "Lakefront Cabin near Disney with Private Pool",
  "location": "Orlando, Florida, United States",
  "price_per_night": 189.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2.0,
  "max_guests": 8,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviews_count": 214,
  "amenities": ["Pool", "Wifi", "Kitchen", "Air conditioning"],
  "host_name": "Jane D.",
  "latitude": 28.3852,
  "longitude": -81.5639,
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run.
result-row	$0.0028	Per listing row written to your dataset.

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $3.00. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

This scraper covers destination-string search only — no booking/availability-calendar scraping, no pricing quotes beyond the single search window used to populate results, no review text (aggregate rating + review count only), and no host-profile enrichment beyond the name shown on the listing. Map/geo bounding-box search is not supported.

❓ FAQ

Is this legal?

We only fetch content VRBO makes publicly available on its search and listing pages. Respect VRBO's terms of service before using output commercially.

Why is a field null?

Detail-page fields (rating, reviews_count, amenities, host_name, latitude, longitude) are null when scrapeListingDetails is false, or when VRBO doesn't expose that field publicly for a given listing.

Do I need my own proxy?

No — Apify Proxy (residential) is wired in by default.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxListingsPerDestination?

The run-wide maxRunMinutes budget stops opening new pages once it's spent, and any listing that hits a dead page or navigation timeout is skipped rather than failing the run — check the run's status message for a breakdown.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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