🏖️ Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper [From 💰$0.50/1K]

What does Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper do?

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper is a short-term rental (STR) sentiment and reputation tool that extracts verified guest reviews directly from Vrbo.com—capturing numerical star ratings, review titles, full guest commentary, stay dates, traveler group categories, publication timestamps, and host responses.

Whether you manage a vacation rental portfolio across Vrbo and Airbnb, audit guest complaints and seasonal occupancy trends before acquiring a new STR property, or feed guest feedback into AI sentiment models, this scraper delivers clean, structured records in seconds.

🛡️ Zero Proxy Configuration Required: Anti-blocking and regional routing are handled automatically out of the box — just paste your target URLs and click Start.

What data can you extract with Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper?

⭐ Review Rating & Headline — numeric star rating (1.0–5.0), review title, and unique review id
💬 Full Guest Commentary — complete text written by the verified vacation rental guest
🏖️ Property & Listing Provenance — parsed Vrbo propertyId and canonical propertyUrl
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Guest & Stay Context — reviewerName, travelerType (e.g., Family with young children, Couple, Group of friends), stayDate, and publishedAt date
📣 Host / Property Manager Reply — official hostResponse posted by the vacation rental owner or management company, plus scrapedAt UTC timestamp

Why scrape vacation rental reviews from Vrbo?

💪 Centralize multi-channel STR reputation management — monitor guest sentiment across your Vrbo listings alongside Airbnb and Booking.com in one unified spreadsheet or BI dashboard
🕵️ Perform STR acquisition and co-hosting due diligence — inspect historical review volume, seasonality (stayDate), and recurring maintenance complaints before purchasing or onboarding a vacation home
✨ Identify high-value guest segments — analyze travelerType distributions to see whether families, couples, or large groups drive the highest 5-star reviews in your market
👍 Zero proxy or account setup — built-in anti-blocking and proxy rotation work automatically out of the box
📩 Automate low-rating alerts — connect recurring runs to Slack, Make, Zapier, or n8n so your property management team can respond to negative reviews immediately

How do I use Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper?

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper is built for fast, zero-configuration operation in Apify Console:

1. Click Try for free on the Actor page to open Apify Console.
2. Paste one or more Vrbo property listing URLs into Vrbo Property URLs (startUrls, for example https://www.vrbo.com/3757251).
3. Set Max Reviews per Property (maxReviews) to choose how many guest reviews to collect.
4. Click Start to launch the extraction run.
5. Download your vacation rental review dataset from the Dataset tab in Excel, CSV, JSON, or HTML table format.

Input

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper accepts a simple 2-parameter JSON configuration. Click on the Input tab for the interactive form.

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.vrbo.com/3757251"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviews": 50
}

🏖️ startUrls — array of Vrbo vacation rental listing URLs (e.g., https://www.vrbo.com/3757251)
🔢 maxReviews — maximum number of guest reviews to extract (default: 50, minimum 1; Free plan runs collect up to 40 reviews per run, while paid Apify plans support unlimited review extraction)

Output sample

Results are streamed in real time to your default Apify Dataset. Each record represents a verified Vrbo guest review with rating, commentary, stay context, and host reply:

[
  {
    "id": "vrbo_rev_991827",
    "propertyId": "3757251",
    "propertyUrl": "https://www.vrbo.com/3757251",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "title": "Perfect beachfront getaway for our family!",
    "text": "The home was spotless, right on the sand, and the kitchen had everything we needed.",
    "reviewerName": "Michael T.",
    "travelerType": "Family with young children",
    "stayDate": "September 2026",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-28",
    "hostResponse": "Thank you for staying with us, Michael! We would love to host your family again.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T12:00:00Z"
  }
]

How much does it cost to scrape Vrbo reviews?

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper uses Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing (apify-default-dataset-item) with a $0.00 startup fee—you only pay for verified guest reviews delivered to your dataset:

🆓 Free plan — $0.005 per review ($5.00 / 1,000 reviews, up to 40 reviews/run)
🥉 Starter (Bronze) plan — $0.0011 per review ($1.10 / 1,000 reviews)
🥈 Scale (Silver) plan — $0.0008 per review ($0.80 / 1,000 reviews)
🥇 Business+ (Gold) plan — $0.0005 per review ($0.50 / 1,000 reviews)

With the monthly free credit on the Apify Free plan, you can extract up to 1,000 Vrbo guest reviews per month for free.

💡 Predictable, All-Inclusive Pay-Per-Event Pricing: There is a $0.00 run start fee and no separate proxy configuration required. You only pay the flat per-result rate above for data successfully delivered to your dataset — works out of the box on both Free and Paid Apify plans.

How many results can you scrape with Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper?

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper can extract all public guest reviews for any Vrbo property on paid Apify plans (up to 40 reviews per run on the Free plan). Keep these tips in mind when planning your runs:

• Direct Vrbo listing URLs (vrbo.com/{propertyId}) — supply specific property listing URLs in startUrls to extract their complete guest review history.
• Rating-only submissions — if a guest leaves a star rating on Vrbo without writing a body comment, text will return an empty string while preserving rating, reviewerName, stayDate, and publishedAt.
• Multi-property STR portfolios — pass dozens of Vrbo property URLs in startUrls to audit your entire vacation rental portfolio or local market comp set in one run.

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Integrations and Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper

Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper connects directly with your property management spreadsheets, BI tools, and automation workflows through Apify integrations:

• No-Code Automation — trigger instant Slack/email alerts on low-star reviews or draft AI host responses via Make, Zapier, or n8n.
• Spreadsheets & Warehouses — sync guest reviews straight into Google Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL.
• Webhooks — send automated HTTP webhook payloads to your STR dashboard whenever a run finishes.

Using Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper with the Apify API

You can launch review runs and fetch dataset items programmatically using the official apify-client libraries for Node.js and Python, or connect this Actor to AI hospitality agents via the Apify MCP Server (https://mcp.apify.com).

Check the API tab for ready-to-copy Node.js, Python, and cURL code snippets.

Frequently asked questions about Vrbo Vacation Rental Reviews Scraper

🏖️ Can I pass multiple Vrbo property URLs in a single run?
Yes. Add as many Vrbo property URLs as you need to startUrls and the scraper will extract guest reviews across every listing in your batch.

📣 Does the scraper include host and property manager replies?
Yes. Whenever a host or property manager replies to a guest review on Vrbo, the full response is captured in the hostResponse field.

🛡️ Do I need to configure proxies or a Vrbo account?
No — everything works out of the box with zero setup. Regional routing, session management, and anti-blocking are handled automatically so you do not need to configure custom proxy settings.

Is it legal to scrape public guest reviews from Vrbo?

Our scrapers are ethical and only extract publicly available guest ratings, review comments, and host responses displayed on public Vrbo property pages. They do not access private reservation details or personal account data. For more details on the legality of web scraping, read Apify's guide on is web scraping legal.

Your feedback

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⏱️ Response time — We aim to reply within 24 hours on business days.
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