Vrbo Vacation Rental Scraper

Vrbo Vacation Rental Scraper

Scrape Vrbo vacation rental listings for any city or destination, up to a million per run. Each listing returns with its title, price, rating, review count, and full property details. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

Vrbo's public search results hold the vacation rental supply for an entire market, but manually copying listings is slow and error-prone. This Actor reads the live search feed for any location you give it, from Miami to Paris, and returns every matching property in one consistent row. It is built for analysts and property managers who need fresh, structured rental data without writing a single line of code.

Who uses it	What they scrape Vrbo for
Revenue managers	Benchmark nightly rates and occupancy signals for a destination.
Market researchers	Map the supply of whole-home rentals in a region before a launch.
Property investors	Estimate gross rental yields by comparing listed prices across a city.
Travel data startups	Build a feed of available vacation rentals for a pricing model.

What it does

This Actor collects Vrbo vacation rental listings by city or destination and returns each property as a flat row.

• 🏙️ Location-based search: enter any city, region, or point of interest and the Actor discovers all listings Vrbo returns for it.
• 📊 Structured output: every listing arrives as one row with the same schema, ready for pivot tables or a database.
• 📍 Map-ready coordinates: each property carries its latitude and longitude, so results drop straight into a GIS or mapping tool.
• 🖼️ Full photo gallery: every image URL Vrbo publishes for the property, not just the cover shot.
• ⚡ Scale on demand: pull up to a million listings in a single run when you need full market coverage.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with Vrbo data

📈 Track seasonal rate changes.

A revenue manager runs the Actor weekly for 'Miami Beach, FL' and plots average nightly rates to adjust their own pricing before peak season.

🏠 Size a new market.

A vacation rental startup scrapes 'Asheville, NC' to count active whole-home listings and decide whether to invest in local acquisition.

🔍 Monitor competitor portfolios.

A property manager enters a competitor's brand name as the location to see which of their units are listed and at what price.

🌍 Build a destination dataset.

A data scientist scrapes the top 50 US cities and joins the output with census data to model short-term rental density.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No API key	Reads the public search pages, so you skip OAuth and rate-limit negotiations.
Fixed schema	Every property comes with the same fields, making historical comparisons painless.
One input	A city name is all it takes; the Actor handles pagination and deduplication.

How it compares

No other Store actor targets Vrbo the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	Vrbo Vacation Rental Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When Vrbo changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor with a single location string, and set a maximum number of rentals to cap the run. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "location": "Miami, FL",
  "maxItems": 10
}

A larger pull:

{
  "location": "Miami, FL",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.021 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$2.10
1,000 results	$21.00
10,000 results	$210.00

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Vrbo Vacation Rental Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Vrbo through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/vrbo-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results?

Check that the location string matches exactly what Vrbo's search box expects. Try a broader term like the state or country name, or verify the spelling.

The run stopped before reaching my maxItems.

Vrbo may return fewer listings than your limit for a small destination. The Actor stops when it exhausts all available pages, which is expected behavior.

Some fields are empty in my output.

Not every Vrbo listing publishes every attribute. A brand-new property has no rating or review count yet, a studio has no bedroom count, and listings outside a named neighborhood leave that column empty.

I got blocked or the run failed with an error.

Vrbo may throttle aggressive requests. Try reducing your maxItems, running during off-peak hours, or using Apify proxies if you are on a paid plan.

The prices look different from what I see on the website.

Vrbo shows a base nightly rate before taxes and fees. The Actor captures the displayed price; total cost will be higher on the booking screen.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Can I scrape multiple cities in one run?	One run handles one location. To scrape several cities, run the Actor once per city, either manually or by calling the API in a loop.
What exactly is a 'location'?	Any string Vrbo accepts in its destination search box: a city, a metro area, a landmark, or a region like 'Texas Hill Country'.
Which fields does each listing include?	Title, listing URL, property ID, nightly price and currency, guest rating and review count, property type, bedrooms and beds, neighborhood, latitude and longitude, and the full photo gallery. Amenity lists and host names live behind Vrbo's individual property pages and are not part of the output.
Is there a limit on how many listings I can get?	Free Apify users are limited to 10 listings as a preview. Paid users can set the maximum up to 1,000,000 per run.
Do I need a Vrbo account or API key?	No. The Actor reads the publicly accessible search pages, so no login, API key, or OAuth flow is required.
How fresh is the data?	The Actor pulls live results from Vrbo at the moment you run it, so you get the prices and availability a guest would see right then.
Can I filter by number of bedrooms or price before scraping?	The Actor currently fetches the default search results for the location. Apply bedroom, price, or other filters after the run by sorting the dataset.
What export formats are supported?	You can export your results to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML directly from the Apify dataset tab.
Does it handle Vrbo's pagination automatically?	Yes. The Actor follows every page of results until it hits your maxItems limit or runs out of listings.
Can I schedule this to run daily?	Absolutely. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the Actor every day, week, or hour and collect a time series of rental data.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Expedia Group, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.