Kayak Car Rental Scraper

Search live car rental data from Kayak — filter by car class, transmission, agency, price, policies, eco class, and more. Structured results ready to use.

Each actor run executes one scrape type with its own set of parameters. Results are pushed to the Apify dataset, with one item per car offer or location suggestion.

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Need Flights or Hotels?

This actor covers car rentals only. For the full Kayak travel API:

KAYAK API on RapidAPI →

Available on RapidAPI:

• /search-flights — one-way and round-trip with full filter support (airlines, stops, price, alliances)
• /search-hotels — hotel search with star rating, amenities, price filters, and location-based search
• /search-locations — airport and city lookup for flights
• /search-hotel-locations — hotel/stay location lookup
• /track-flights — live flight status by airline code and flight number
• /search-airlines — airline lookup by name
• /search-airports — airport lookup by name or IATA code
• /search-cars — same car search as this actor, via REST API

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Scrape Types

scrapeType	What it does
LOCATION_SEARCH	Find Kayak location IDs for cities and airports
CAR_SEARCH	Find rental cars with full filter support

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Usage

1. LOCATION_SEARCH

Find Kayak location query IDs needed for car search.

Input:

{
  "scrapeType": "LOCATION_SEARCH",
  "locationQuery": "Miami",
  "locationType": "cityonly",
  "locationCountry": "US"
}

Output (per location):

{
  "scrape_type": "LOCATION_SEARCH",
  "data": {
    "query": "Miami",
    "id": "16078",
    "displayname": "Miami, Florida, United States",
    "cityname": "Miami",
    "country": "United States",
    "lat": 25.7617,
    "lng": -80.1918
  }
}

Use the id field from data as pickupLocation in CAR_SEARCH.

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2. CAR_SEARCH

Search for rental cars at a pickup location.

Recommended workflow:

1. Run LOCATION_SEARCH to get a pickupLocation ID.
2. Run CAR_SEARCH without carFilters to see filter_data in the metadata item.
3. Copy filter values into carFilters and rerun for refined results.

Simple input:

{
  "scrapeType": "CAR_SEARCH",
  "pickupLocation": "16078",
  "pickupDate": "2026-11-01",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-11-08",
  "pickupHour": 10,
  "dropoffHour": 18,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "pageSize": 20
}

With filters:

{
  "scrapeType": "CAR_SEARCH",
  "pickupLocation": "16078",
  "pickupDate": "2026-11-01",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-11-08",
  "pickupHour": 10,
  "dropoffHour": 18,
  "driverAge": 35,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "sortMode": "price_a",
  "priceMode": "total",
  "pageSize": 20,
  "carFilters": {
    "carClass": ["SUV", "MEDIUM"],
    "transmission": "Automatic",
    "priceRange": "200-800",
    "carAgency": ["hertz", "sixt"],
    "carPolicies": ["cancel", "mileage"],
    "carOptions": ["AC", "NavigationSystem"],
    "ecoClass": "Hybrid",
    "paymentType": "PREPAY"
  }
}

One-way rental:

{
  "scrapeType": "CAR_SEARCH",
  "pickupLocation": "16078",
  "dropoffLocation": "16079",
  "pickupDate": "2026-11-01",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-11-08"
}

Output (per car offer):

{
  "scrape_type": "CAR_SEARCH",
  "data": {
    "resultId": "...",
    "agency": { "name": "Hertz", "code": "hertz" },
    "car": { "class": "SUV", "name": "Jeep Grand Cherokee or similar" },
    "price": { "total": 333.60, "currency": "USD" },
    "...full Kayak car result fields..."
  }
}

Final metadata item:

{
  "scrape_type": "CAR_SEARCH",
  "is_metadata": true,
  "data": {
    "search_id": "abc123",
    "search_status": "completed",
    "total_count": 156,
    "filtered_count": 22,
    "pushed": 20,
    "result_statistics": {
      "total_raw_results": 25,
      "filtered_ads": 3,
      "regular_cars": 22
    },
    "filter_data": { "...available filters from Kayak..." }
  }
}

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All Input Parameters

Required (CAR_SEARCH)

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
pickupLocation	string	Kayak location query ID	"16078"
pickupDate	string	Pickup date YYYY-MM-DD	"2026-11-01"
dropoffDate	string	Drop-off date YYYY-MM-DD	"2026-11-08"

Optional — Time

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
pickupHour	integer	12	Pickup hour (0–23)
dropoffHour	integer	12	Drop-off hour (0–23)
pickupMinute	integer	0	Pickup minute (0 or 30)
dropoffMinute	integer	0	Drop-off minute (0 or 30)

Optional — Rental Details

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
dropoffLocation	string	—	Different drop-off ID for one-way rentals
driverAge	integer	—	Driver age (18–99)

Optional — Locale

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
currencyCode	string	USD	ISO 4217 currency code
countryCode	string	US	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

Optional — Pagination & Sort

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
pageNumber	integer	0	Page index (0-based)
pageSize	integer	15	Results per page (max 50)
priceMode	string	total	total or per-day
sortMode	string	rank_a	rank_a, price_a, price_d

Optional — carFilters Object

Field	Type	Values
carClass	array	SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, SUV, VAN, PICKUPTRUCK, LUXURY, CONVERTIBLE, COMMERCIAL
transmission	string	Automatic, Manual
priceRange	string	"200-800" (range), "305-" (min), "-1000" (max)
bookingSites	array	Europcar, Hertz, Enterprise, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Thrifty, Sixt, Fox
carAgency	array	alamo, avis, budget, dollar, enterprise, europcar, fox, hertz, sixt, thrifty
carMaker	object/array	{"3": "Audi", "45": "Toyota", "1139": "Tesla"} or ["45", "1139"]
carPolicies	array	cancel, driver, fuel, mileage
carOptions	array	AC, doors, awd, 4wd, NavigationSystem, OpenAirAllTerrain
ecoClass	string	Hybrid, Electric, Other
paymentType	string	PREPAY, DEPOSIT, POSTPAY
timeSaving	array	earlyCheckin, skipCounter
pickupCity	string	NON_AIRPORT or airport codes
inAirportTerminal	string	LAX, BUR, LGB, etc.
carSharing	string	Car sharing filter
whiskyOnly	string	Kayak whisky deals only

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Deployment

Build and push from the actor folder:

cd C:\Users\Lenovo\Desktop\nike\actor
apify push

Do not run apify push from the .actor subfolder — that skips the Dockerfile and creates an actor named undefined.

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Notes

• pickupLocation must be a Kayak location query ID (e.g. "16078"), not a free-text city name. Use LOCATION_SEARCH first.
• The final dataset item always has is_metadata: true and contains filter_data with all available filters from Kayak.
• Sponsored/ad results are automatically filtered out.
• Dates must be in the future.
• Increase pageSize for more results per run (each additional result uses compute time).
• Results are wrapped in a data field to match the API response format.