## VRBO Vacation Rentals Scraper
**💰 $2.82 / 1 000 results** · pay only for results · no credit card to try
*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈
Give this Actor a list of destinations and get back structured VRBO (Expedia Group) vacation-rental listing rows — title, location, price per night, beds/baths, guests, rating, reviews, amenities, host, and coordinates where public.
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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
```json
{
"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
```json
{
"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` | $0.02 | 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 ≈ **$2.82**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.
### 🚧 Limitations
v0.1 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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# Actor input Schema
## `destinations` (type: `array`):
1-10 free-text VRBO destination search queries, e.g. "Orlando, Florida, United States of America".
## `checkin` (type: `string`):
Search window start (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to +30 days from run date when omitted.
## `checkout` (type: `string`):
Search window end (YYYY-MM-DD), must be after Check-in date. Defaults to +33 days from run date when omitted.
## `maxListingsPerDestination` (type: `integer`):
Cap on listing rows collected per destination.
## `scrapeListingDetails` (type: `boolean`):
When true, also visit each listing's detail page for rating, reviews, amenities, host, and coordinates. When false, emit search-card fields only (cheaper, faster).
## `maxRunMinutes` (type: `integer`):
Run-wide wall-clock budget; the run stops opening new pages past this and finalizes with whatever was scraped.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Proxy — mandatory. Defaults to RESIDENTIAL; falls back to BUYPROXIES94952 on accounts without RESIDENTIAL provisioned.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"destinations": [
"Orlando, Florida, United States of America"
],
"maxListingsPerDestination": 20,
"scrapeListingDetails": true,
"maxRunMinutes": 12,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):
All dataset items as JSON.
## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):
Same data exported to CSV.
## `datasetView` (type: `string`):
Open the run dataset in the Console.
# 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 '