# KAYAK Car Rental Scraper — Prices, Agencies & Deals (`haketa/kayak-car-rental-scraper`) Actor

Scrape car rental prices from KAYAK worldwide — car model, class, rental agency, price per day and total, transmission, seats, mileage and cancellation policy. Compare deals by airport and dates. Independent tool, not affiliated with KAYAK.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/haketa/kayak-car-rental-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Haketa](https://apify.com/haketa) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, E-commerce
- **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

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

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# README

<h1 align="center">KAYAK Car Rental Scraper</h1>

<p align="center"><b>Export live car rental prices from KAYAK — car model, class, rental agency, price per day and total, transmission, seats, bags, mileage and cancellation policy — as clean, structured data. No code, no captcha.</b></p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Platform-Apify-1a1a1a?style=for-the-badge" alt="Apify">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Niche-Car%20Rentals-0aa06e?style=for-the-badge" alt="Car rentals">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/No--code-friendly-2f6fed?style=for-the-badge" alt="No-code">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Coverage-Worldwide-f59e0b?style=for-the-badge" alt="Worldwide">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Export-JSON%20%C2%B7%20CSV%20%C2%B7%20Excel%20%C2%B7%20API-8b5cf6?style=for-the-badge" alt="Export">
</p>

***

### ⚡ At a glance

| | |
|---|---|
| 🚗 **Coverage** | Rental cars from dozens of agencies (Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Budget, Sixt, Alamo…) worldwide |
| 💷 **Prices** | Total and **per-day** price with currency — sort and filter to find the cheapest deal |
| 🔧 **Full specs** | Car, class, **transmission, seats, bags, doors, fuel, air-con** — not just a price |
| 📜 **Policies** | Mileage (unlimited / limited), free cancellation and fuel policy per offer |
| 🔎 **Targeting** | By airport code or city, dates, times, driver age and one-way trips |
| 🚫 **No barriers** | No captcha to solve, no login, no browser — just the data |
| ⚡ **Fast & cheap** | Straight from KAYAK's live search feed — seconds per location |

***

### What is the KAYAK Car Rental Scraper?

**KAYAK Car Rental Scraper** turns KAYAK's live car-rental metasearch into a clean dataset you can actually work with. KAYAK compares prices from **dozens of rental agencies at once**; this Actor pulls those comparison results — every car, every agency, every price — into a structured table.

For each pickup location and date range you get a **ready-to-use list of car rental offers**: the car and its class, the agency, the **price per day and total**, the transmission, seats and bags, the mileage and cancellation policy, and a direct booking link.

Whether you're a **travel agency or OTA** monitoring rates, a **price-comparison or deals site** building a feed, a **data analyst** tracking the rental market, or a traveler hunting the best deal, this scraper gives you the raw material in seconds — with no captcha and no page-by-page clicking.

> 💡 **Why it stands out:** most rental scrapers give you a price and a name. This one returns the **full vehicle spec** (transmission, seats, bags, doors, fuel), the **mileage and cancellation policy**, and both **per-day and total** prices across **every agency** — so you can truly compare deals.

***

### ✨ Key features

- 🌍 **Anywhere** — search by **airport code** (MIA, LAX, LHR) or **city name** (Miami, London, Orlando). Add several locations at once.
- 💰 **Full price comparison** — every agency's offer for each car, with **per-day and total** price and currency.
- 🔧 **Complete vehicle specs** — car model, class, transmission, seats, bags, doors, fuel type, air-conditioning.
- 📜 **Rental policies** — mileage (unlimited/limited), free-cancellation window and fuel policy per offer.
- 🧭 **Flexible search** — pickup & drop-off dates and times, **one-way** rentals, driver age, sort by price or recommendation.
- 🔗 **Direct booking links** — deep links to book each offer, plus the underlying rental site.
- 📤 **Export anywhere** — JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull straight from the Apify API into Sheets, Airtable, a dashboard or a webhook.

***

### 🎯 Use cases

<details open>
<summary><b>Travel agencies, OTAs & affiliates</b></summary>

- Monitor **competitor rates** across agencies and locations.
- Build a **car-rental price feed** for your site or app with full specs.
- Find the **cheapest deal** per car class for your customers.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Price-comparison & deals sites</b></summary>

- Aggregate rental offers with per-day and total prices and booking links.
- Track price movements by location and date on a schedule.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Market research & analytics</b></summary>

- Analyse **pricing by agency, car class, city and season**.
- Measure availability and supply across airports.
- Feed clean rental data into a **dashboard or model**.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Travelers & travel planners</b></summary>

- Compare every agency's price for your exact dates in one export.
- Filter to **unlimited mileage** or **free cancellation** offers.

</details>

***

### 🚀 How it works

1. **Enter locations** — airport codes or city names (one or many).
2. **Pick dates** — pickup and drop-off dates (and times, driver age, one-way if needed).
3. **Run it** — the Actor searches KAYAK, waits for every agency to respond, and returns a clean dataset.
4. **Export** — JSON, CSV, Excel or API.

No accounts, captchas or scripts — just fill in the form and press **Start**.

***

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `pickupLocations` | list | Airport codes (`MIA`, `LAX`) or city names (`Miami`, `London`). Each is searched separately. |
| `dropoffLocation` | text | Optional — for one-way rentals, the return location. |
| `pickupDate` / `dropoffDate` | text | `YYYY-MM-DD`. Leave empty for dates ~2 weeks out. |
| `pickupHour` / `dropoffHour` | number | Pickup/return time, 0–23 (default 12). |
| `driverAge` | number | Driver age (affects pricing). |
| `sort` | select | Recommended, price ↑ or price ↓. |
| `priceMode` | select | Total price or price per day. |
| `maxItemsPerSearch` | number | Max cars per location (0 = all). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | proxy | Residential proxies (required); defaults to US residential. |

#### Example inputs

**1. Cheapest cars at Miami airport**

```json
{
  "pickupLocations": ["MIA"],
  "pickupDate": "2026-09-20",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-09-24",
  "sort": "price_a",
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100
}
```

**2. Compare several airports**

```json
{
  "pickupLocations": ["LAX", "SFO", "LAS"],
  "pickupDate": "2026-10-05",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-10-12",
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 80
}
```

**3. One-way rental, London → Paris**

```json
{
  "pickupLocations": ["London"],
  "dropoffLocation": "Paris",
  "pickupDate": "2026-11-01",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-11-05"
}
```

***

### 📤 Output

Each car rental offer is one row. Example:

```json
{
  "carName": "Toyota RAV4",
  "carClass": "Intermediate SUV",
  "carCategory": "SUV",
  "transmission": "Automatic",
  "seats": 5,
  "bags": 2,
  "doors": 5,
  "fuelType": "Gas",
  "airConditioning": true,
  "agency": "CarWiz",
  "bookingSite": "Expedia",
  "dayPrice": 7,
  "totalPrice": 27,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceDisplay": "$27",
  "paymentType": "postpay",
  "mileagePolicy": "Unlimited miles",
  "fuelPolicy": "full-to-full",
  "cancellation": "Free cancellation (48h)",
  "freeCancellation": true,
  "isCheapest": true,
  "image": "https://content.r9cdn.net/rimg/car-images/…png",
  "bookingUrl": "https://www.kayak.com/book/car?…",
  "pickupLocation": "MIA",
  "pickupDate": "2026-09-20",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-09-24"
}
```

#### Output fields

**Coverage key:** 🟢 almost every offer · 🟡 when the agency provides it

##### 🚗 Vehicle

| Field | Coverage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `carName` | 🟢 | Car model (or "or similar") |
| `carClass` | 🟢 | Class (Economy, Intermediate SUV, Luxury…) |
| `carCategory` | 🟡 | Category group |
| `transmission` | 🟢 | Automatic / Manual |
| `seats` / `bags` / `doors` | 🟢 | Capacity |
| `fuelType` | 🟢 | Gas, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid |
| `airConditioning` | 🟢 | Air-con flag |

##### 💰 Price & agency

| Field | Coverage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `agency` | 🟢 | Rental agency (Hertz, Avis, Sixt…) |
| `bookingSite` | 🟢 | Site the price is booked through |
| `dayPrice` / `totalPrice` | 🟢 | Per-day and total price as numbers |
| `currency` / `priceDisplay` | 🟢 | Currency and formatted price |
| `paymentType` | 🟡 | Prepay / pay at desk |
| `isCheapest` / `isBestValue` | 🟡 | KAYAK's cheapest / best-value flags |

##### 📜 Policies & links

| Field | Coverage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `mileagePolicy` | 🟢 | Unlimited or limited miles |
| `fuelPolicy` | 🟡 | e.g. full-to-full |
| `cancellation` / `freeCancellation` | 🟢 | Cancellation terms |
| `bookingUrl` | 🟢 | Direct booking link |
| `bookingSiteUrl` | 🟡 | Underlying rental site |
| `image` | 🟢 | Car image |
| `pickupLocation` / dates | 🟢 | Search context |

***

### 🔎 Sample searches

| Goal | How |
|---|---|
| 💸 Cheapest car at an airport | `pickupLocations: [MIA]`, `sort: price_a` |
| 🌆 Compare airports | `pickupLocations: [LAX, SFO, LAS]` |
| 🔁 One-way trip | `pickupLocations: [Miami]`, `dropoffLocation: Orlando` |
| 🧳 Long trip, per-day view | `priceMode: per-day` |
| 🏙️ Search a city | `pickupLocations: [London]` |

***

### 🔌 Integrations & automation

- **Google Sheets / Excel** — one-click export or scheduled sync.
- **Airtable, Notion, BI tools** — via Apify integrations or webhooks.
- **Zapier / Make** — trigger flows on price changes.
- **API & webhooks** — pull the dataset into your app or warehouse.
- **Schedules** — run daily to track rental prices over time.

***

### ❓ FAQ

**Which locations can I search?**
Any KAYAK car-rental location worldwide — pass an airport code (MIA, LHR) or a city name (Miami, London). City names are resolved automatically.

**Do I get every agency's price?**
Yes — KAYAK compares dozens of agencies, and the Actor returns each car offer with its agency, price and full specs, so you can compare.

**Do I get per-day and total prices?**
Both. `dayPrice` and `totalPrice` are returned as clean numbers, plus a formatted `priceDisplay` and the `currency`.

**Can I do one-way rentals?**
Yes — set a `dropoffLocation` different from the pickup.

**Which currency are prices in?**
Prices come back in the market's default currency (USD for US searches). The `currency` field reflects the actual currency of each price.

**Do I need proxies?**
Residential proxies are required and enabled by default (US residential). No browser or captcha-solving is needed.

**How many results can I get?**
Set `maxItemsPerSearch` (0 = all). A busy airport returns hundreds of offers across agencies.

**In what formats can I export?**
JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, plus the Apify API and integrations.

***

### 💡 Tips

- Start with one airport and `maxItemsPerSearch: 100` to preview, then scale up.
- Use `sort: price_a` to surface the cheapest deals first.
- Run on a **schedule** to track how prices change as the date approaches.
- Filter your export to **unlimited mileage** or **free cancellation** offers.
- Compare several airports in one run to find the cheapest city to rent in.

***

### ⚠️ Limitations & responsible use

- Prices are live and change constantly; a run is a snapshot at that moment.
- Availability and some fields depend on what each agency publishes.
- Currency follows the market default unless the location implies otherwise.
- Use the data responsibly and in line with applicable laws and the source's terms. This tool is intended for price comparison, market research and travel planning.

***

<p align="center"><i>This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by KAYAK or Booking Holdings. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.</i></p>

<p align="center"><b>Compare every car rental deal in seconds. Enter a location, press Start. 🚗</b></p>

# Actor input Schema

## `pickupLocations` (type: `array`):

Airport codes (e.g. "MIA", "LAX", "JFK") or city names (e.g. "Miami", "London"). Each location is searched separately.

## `dropoffLocation` (type: `string`):

For one-way rentals, the return location (airport code or city). Leave empty to return to the pickup location.

## `pickupDate` (type: `string`):

Format YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty to use a date about two weeks out.

## `dropoffDate` (type: `string`):

Format YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty to use a date a few days after pickup.

## `pickupHour` (type: `integer`):

Pickup time, 0–23 (default 12 = noon).

## `dropoffHour` (type: `integer`):

Drop-off time, 0–23 (default 12 = noon).

## `driverAge` (type: `integer`):

Driver's age (affects pricing and availability).

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency for prices (ISO code, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP).

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

How to order results.

## `priceMode` (type: `string`):

Whether prices are shown as the total for the rental or per day.

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Stop after collecting this many cars per pickup location. Set 0 for all.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies are required for KAYAK. The Actor defaults to US residential.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pickupLocations": [
    "MIA",
    "LAX",
    "Orlando"
  ],
  "dropoffLocation": "LAX",
  "pickupDate": "2026-09-20",
  "dropoffDate": "2026-09-24",
  "pickupHour": 12,
  "dropoffHour": 12,
  "driverAge": 30,
  "currency": "USD",
  "sort": "rank_a",
  "priceMode": "total",
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Open to view, filter and export every car rental offer — car, agency, price, specs and policies (JSON, CSV, Excel).

# 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 = {
    "pickupLocations": [
        "MIA"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("haketa/kayak-car-rental-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 = {
    "pickupLocations": ["MIA"],
    "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("haketa/kayak-car-rental-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 '{
  "pickupLocations": [
    "MIA"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call haketa/kayak-car-rental-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,haketa/kayak-car-rental-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/qznLOZbBIVW9GFidH/builds/LOHwcKPmSiqA7NePQ/openapi.json