# Airbnb & Vrbo Scraper - Listings, Calendar, Occupancy & Revenue (`headply/airbnb-vrbo-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Airbnb and Vrbo listings by location or URL. Get prices, amenities, host details, reviews and day-by-day availability, plus occupancy rate, ADR, RevPAR and revenue estimates. No login. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/headply/airbnb-vrbo-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mayowa Ogedengbe](https://apify.com/headply) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Real estate, Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 airbnb listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Airbnb & Vrbo Scraper

Scrape **Airbnb** and **Vrbo** short-term rental listings from one Actor, by location or by URL, and get the field that every other scraper leaves out: **occupancy and revenue**. Point it at a city, and it returns every listing with prices, amenities, host details, reviews, a day-by-day availability calendar, and estimated occupancy rate, ADR, RevPAR and revenue for the next 30, 90 and 365 days. No login, no cookies, no Airbnb or Vrbo API key.

This is a practical **AirDNA alternative** for short-term rental investors, property managers and dynamic-pricing tools that want raw market data on a pay-per-use basis instead of a monthly subscription.

### What this Actor does

- Scrapes **Airbnb** and **Vrbo** in a single run so you can compare the two platforms in the same market.
- Covers a whole city. When a search area holds more listings than the site will page through, the Actor splits the map into smaller tiles until every listing is captured.
- Returns full listing data: title, property type, price, coordinates, rating, review count, amenities, host profile, house rules, description and photos.
- Pulls a **day-by-day availability calendar** for each listing, up to 12 months for Airbnb and roughly 24 months for Vrbo, with nightly prices where the platform publishes them.
- Estimates **occupancy rate, ADR (average daily rate), RevPAR and revenue** per listing, and sharpens the estimate every time you re-scan the same market.
- Accepts search locations, Airbnb room URLs and Vrbo listing URLs.
- Exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, or straight to the Apify API for your own pipeline.

### What data can you extract from Airbnb and Vrbo?

| Group | Fields |
| --- | --- |
| Listing | id, url, name, property type, room and bed count, coordinates, thumbnail, photos |
| Pricing | nightly price, total price, original price, currency |
| Reputation | rating, review count, guest-favorite and Superhost flags |
| Host | host name, Superhost status, response rate, response time, years hosting |
| Property | amenities, house rules, description, person capacity, address (Vrbo) |
| Availability | per-day available or unavailable status, minimum nights, nightly price |
| Occupancy | occupancy rate, ADR, RevPAR, estimated revenue for 30, 90 and 365 days |

### How to scrape Airbnb and Vrbo data

1. Add one or more locations under **Locations to search**, for example `Austin, Texas`.
2. Pick the **Platforms** you want. Keep both Airbnb and Vrbo to compare them.
3. Set **Max listings per location**. Start with a small number to preview the output.
4. Turn on **Scrape full listing details** for amenities, host and description.
5. Turn on **Estimate occupancy & revenue** when you want ADR, occupancy and revenue.
6. Click **Start**, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

To scrape specific properties instead of a whole market, paste Airbnb room URLs (`airbnb.com/rooms/...`) or Vrbo listing URLs (`vrbo.com/1234567`) into **Listing or search URLs**.

### How occupancy and revenue are estimated

A rental calendar tells you a night is unavailable, but not whether it was booked by a guest or blocked by the host. This Actor reports occupancy two ways.

- **Occupancy rate and revenue** count every unavailable night in the forward window as demand. This is the standard single-scan estimate and is available on the first run.
- **Confirmed booked nights** use the Actor's own calendar history. A night that was available in an earlier scan and later turned unavailable is a real booking. A night that was unavailable the first time it was ever seen is a host block. The Actor stores a calendar snapshot for every listing, so each time you re-scan a market the confirmed numbers get sharper and host-blocked nights drop out of the count.

Run the same market on a schedule (weekly works well) to build history and move from a first-scan estimate to confirmed occupancy.

### How much does it cost to scrape Airbnb and Vrbo?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing, so you pay for the results you receive and nothing else.

| Event | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Airbnb listing | $0.004 |
| Airbnb occupancy & revenue | $0.006 |
| Vrbo listing | $0.008 |
| Vrbo occupancy & revenue | $0.010 |

A few worked examples:

- 1,000 Airbnb listings with details: about **$4**.
- 1,000 Airbnb listings with occupancy and revenue: about **$10**.
- 1,000 Vrbo listings with occupancy and revenue: about **$18**.

The Apify free plan includes monthly usage credits, which is enough to scrape roughly a thousand Airbnb listings at no cost while you evaluate the output. Vrbo costs more than Airbnb because Vrbo is a harder target that needs extra processing per listing to return clean, complete data on every run.

### Input example

```json
{
  "platforms": ["airbnb", "vrbo"],
  "search": ["Austin, Texas"],
  "maxListings": 200,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeOccupancy": true
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "platform": "airbnb",
  "id": "48145872",
  "url": "https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48145872",
  "name": "Sentral Studio Apt on East 6th St",
  "propertyType": "Entire rental unit",
  "coordinates": { "lat": 30.2625, "lng": -97.7247 },
  "rating": 4.69,
  "reviewsCount": 1004,
  "priceLabel": "$250",
  "isSuperhost": false,
  "amenitiesCount": 42,
  "occupancy": {
    "adr": 250.27,
    "confidence": "single-snapshot",
    "next90Days": {
      "availableNights": 50,
      "unavailableNights": 40,
      "occupancyPct": 44.4,
      "estimatedRevenue": 10010,
      "confirmedOccupancyPct": null
    }
  }
}
```

### Who uses this Actor

- **Short-term rental investors** sizing up a market before they buy.
- **Property managers** benchmarking their listings against local supply.
- **Dynamic-pricing and revenue tools** that need live rates and availability.
- **Analysts and researchers** who want Airbnb and Vrbo data without a dashboard subscription.

### Frequently asked questions

#### Is it legal to scrape Airbnb and Vrbo?

The Actor reads public listing pages that anyone can view without logging in. It collects no private data. You are responsible for using the output in line with the platforms' terms and the laws that apply to you. If you plan to store host names or reuse data commercially, review those rules first.

#### Do I need an Airbnb or Vrbo API key?

No. There is no login, no cookie and no API key. You only need an Apify account.

#### How many listings can I get per city?

As many as the platform lists. For large cities the Actor subdivides the map automatically so it can move past the few-hundred-result cap that a single Airbnb search returns. Set **Max listings per location** to control the volume.

#### Why does the first run show occupancy but no confirmed bookings?

Confirmed bookings need at least two scans of the same listing so the Actor can watch availability change over time. The first run gives you the single-scan occupancy estimate. Re-scan the market to turn that estimate into confirmed booked nights.

#### Can I schedule regular scans?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run a market weekly or monthly. Repeat scans also build the calendar history that powers confirmed occupancy.

#### What formats can I export?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS, plus direct access through the Apify API and integrations such as Google Sheets, Make and Zapier.

### Support

Found a broken field or need a new one? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab and it will be picked up. Custom fields and larger market pulls can be arranged on request.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/headply/airbnb-vrbo-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `platforms` (type: `array`):

Which sites to scrape. Keep both to compare Airbnb and Vrbo side by side.

## `search` (type: `array`):

One market per line, for example <b>Austin, Texas</b> or <b>Lisbon, Portugal</b>. Each location is expanded into full map coverage. Leave empty if you only pass listing URLs below.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Direct Airbnb room URLs (airbnb.com/rooms/...) or Vrbo listing URLs (vrbo.com/1234567). Use these when you already know the exact properties you want.

## `maxListings` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on unique listings returned for each search location. Airbnb caps a single query at a few hundred results, so higher numbers trigger automatic map-tile subdivision for full coverage.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each listing page to add amenities, the full description, host profile, house rules, coordinates and every photo. Turn off for a faster, cheaper scan that keeps only the search-card fields.

## `includeCalendar` (type: `boolean`):

Add a day-by-day availability calendar for each listing (up to 12 months for Airbnb, up to ~24 months for Vrbo).

## `includeOccupancy` (type: `boolean`):

Derive booked nights, occupancy rate, ADR (average daily rate), RevPAR and estimated revenue for the next 30, 90 and 365 days. Accuracy improves every time you re-scan the same market, because the Actor stores calendar history. Automatically turns the calendar on.

## `calendarMonths` (type: `integer`):

How many months of Airbnb availability to pull. Vrbo always returns its full published horizon.

## `checkIn` (type: `string`):

Optional. Sets the stay used for pricing. Vrbo search requires a stay, so if you leave this empty a date about a month out is used automatically. Format: YYYY-MM-DD.

## `checkOut` (type: `string`):

Optional. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Must be after the check-in date.

## `adults` (type: `integer`):

Number of adults used when requesting prices.

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

Currency for Airbnb prices. Vrbo prices are returned in USD.

## `subdivideMap` (type: `boolean`):

When a search area returns more listings than Airbnb will page through, split it into smaller map tiles until every listing is captured. Turn off to keep only the first few hundred results per location.

## `maxTilesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on how many map tiles a single location may expand into. Raise it for dense cities where you want every last listing.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many listing pages to fetch in parallel. Higher is faster but heavier on proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "platforms": [
    "airbnb",
    "vrbo"
  ],
  "search": [
    "Austin, Texas"
  ],
  "maxListings": 5,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeCalendar": false,
  "includeOccupancy": false,
  "calendarMonths": 12,
  "adults": 2,
  "currency": "USD",
  "subdivideMap": true,
  "maxTilesPerSearch": 40,
  "concurrency": 6
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

All scraped Airbnb and Vrbo listings, one item per listing.

# 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 = {
    "platforms": [
        "airbnb",
        "vrbo"
    ],
    "search": [
        "Austin, Texas"
    ],
    "maxListings": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("headply/airbnb-vrbo-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 = {
    "platforms": [
        "airbnb",
        "vrbo",
    ],
    "search": ["Austin, Texas"],
    "maxListings": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("headply/airbnb-vrbo-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 '{
  "platforms": [
    "airbnb",
    "vrbo"
  ],
  "search": [
    "Austin, Texas"
  ],
  "maxListings": 5
}' |
apify call headply/airbnb-vrbo-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,headply/airbnb-vrbo-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/0qyBUmprhIyXAh2Xo/builds/odsZtmTwUk5N27ecW/openapi.json