Alamo Scraper: Car Rental Prices, Branches and Vehicle Classes

Alamo Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts live car rental quotes from Alamo Rent A Car (alamo.com). For a pickup branch, a date range and a driver age it returns one row per car class with the daily price, the total price with taxes and fees, the prepay price, the mileage policy, the young renter fee and the availability. It also returns the Alamo branch directory (address, coordinates, opening hours, services) and the vehicle class catalog. No login, proxy or browser is needed. Pay per result.

Export the result as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the Apify API. A quote is a price estimate for the dates you ask for. The actor never books or reserves a car.

Alamo limits how many quotes its booking service answers per time window, so rental offers are a low-volume job. One quote returns every car class of one branch for one date range (13 to 44 rows), so a single quote is already many rows. The actor spaces quotes at least 10 seconds apart, and a run may stop early when the service starts refusing quotes. Locations and vehicle classes are not limited this way.

What can you scrape from Alamo?

• Rental offers (rental-offer): every car class that Alamo quotes for your pickup branch, return branch, dates and driver age. Each row has the class code, the example model, seats, bags, transmission, fuel, daily rate, total price, taxes and fees, prepay price, mileage policy and the availability status.
• Locations (location): the Alamo branch pages with address, city, state, postal code, coordinates, opening hours, airport code, services such as After Hours Return and Skip the Counter, and counter directions. The directory lists 1,429 branches in 92 countries, 248 of them in the United States.
• Vehicle classes (vehicle-class): the car class catalog for a country of residence, with the example model, category, seats, transmission, fuel, drive type and the feature list.

Why use this Alamo scraper?

• Prices for your dates: you choose the pickup branch, the dates and times, the return branch and the driver age, and every row echoes them, so rows from many searches can sit in one table.
• Price breakdown that adds up: totalPrice includes taxes and fees. baseSubtotal is the sum of the base rates, taxesAndFees is the difference, and pricePerDay is the total divided by the rental days.
• Real filters: vehicle category, transmission, fuel type, minimum seats, maximum price per day and maximum total price, applied to the rows you receive.
• One-way rentals: set a return branch that differs from the pickup branch and each row is flagged isOneWay.
• Any branch, in several ways: use an airport code (SAT), a branch id (52A3), a city (Austin, TX) or a branch page address from alamo.com.
• Public data only: no login, no account, no proxy, no browser.

How to scrape Alamo rental prices in four steps

1. Open the actor and keep What to collect on Rental offers.
2. Add one or more Pickup locations, for example LAX, Austin, TX or https://www.alamo.com/en/car-rental-locations/us/tx/san-antonio-international-airport-52a3.html.
3. Set the Pickup date and either the Return date or the Rental days. Leave them empty to quote a pickup 14 days from today for 3 days.
4. Click Start, then open the Overview tab or export the dataset.

Three ways to collect data

Mode	What you get	Typical use
Rental offers	One row per car class and pickup branch	Price comparison, rate monitoring, travel apps
Locations	One row per branch	Branch lists, store locators, lead lists
Vehicle classes	One row per car class of the catalog	Fleet research, product matching

What data do you get from Alamo?

Field	Description
recordType	rental-offer, location or vehicle-class
title	Readable name of the row
carClassCode, vehicleClass, exampleModel	Alamo class code, class name and example model
category, subCategory	Cars, SUVs, Trucks or Vans, and the sub category
passengers, largeBags, smallBags, doors	Capacity of the class
transmission, fuelType, driveType	Technical profile
pricePerDay, totalPrice	Daily price and total price in the branch currency, taxes and fees included
baseRatePerDay, baseSubtotal, taxesAndFees, rates	Price breakdown and the unit rates Alamo applies (daily, weekly, extra day)
prepayTotalPrice, prepaySavings	Pay-now price and the saving against paying at the counter
renterCurrency, totalPriceRenterCurrency	Price in the driver's currency when it differs from the branch currency
unlimitedMileage, mileagePolicy	Mileage rule of the quote
minimumRenterAge, youngRenterFeePerDay, additionalDriverFeePerDay	Age and driver fees read from the branch policy
availability, isAvailable	Status of the class for the dates
pickupLocationId, pickupLocationName, pickupAirportCode, pickupAddress, pickupLatitude, pickupLongitude	The pickup branch
returnLocationId, isOneWay, pickupDateTime, returnDateTime, driverAge, renterCountry	The search that produced the row
address, city, state, postalCode, country, latitude, longitude, openingHours, services	Branch fields in location rows

Sample output

{
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.gcs.ehi.com/content/alamo/data/vehicle/bookingCountries/US/SUVS/PGAR.doi.640.high.imageSmallThreeQuarterNodePath.png/1740004423988.png",
  "recordType": "rental-offer",
  "title": "Premium Crossover (Dodge Durango or similar) at San Antonio International Airport",
  "offerId": "52A3|52A3|2026-11-06T10:00|2026-11-09T10:00|30|US|PGAR",
  "url": "https://www.alamo.com/en/car-rental-locations/us/tx/san-antonio-international-airport-52a3.html",
  "carClassCode": "PGAR",
  "vehicleClass": "Premium Crossover",
  "exampleModel": "Dodge Durango",
  "category": "SUVs",
  "subCategory": "Premium & Luxury SUV",
  "passengers": 7,
  "luggageCapacity": 3,
  "largeBags": 2,
  "smallBags": 1,
  "transmission": "Automatic",
  "driveType": "2 Wheel Drive",
  "features": ["Cruise Control", "AM/FM Stereo Radio", "Automatic", "Air Conditioning", "2 Wheel Drive", "Bluetooth"],
  "availability": "AVAILABLE_AT_RETAIL_RATE",
  "isAvailable": true,
  "currency": "USD",
  "pricePerDay": 82.23,
  "totalPrice": 246.68,
  "baseRatePerDay": 56.21,
  "baseSubtotal": 168.63,
  "taxesAndFees": 78.05,
  "rates": [{ "type": "DAILY", "quantity": 3, "amount": 56.21 }],
  "rentalDays": 3,
  "prepayTotalPrice": 235.91,
  "prepaySavings": 10.77,
  "unlimitedMileage": true,
  "mileagePolicy": "Unlimited mileage",
  "minimumRenterAge": 21,
  "youngRenterFeePerDay": 25,
  "additionalDriverFeePerDay": 15,
  "pickupQuery": "https://www.alamo.com/en/car-rental-locations/us/tx/san-antonio-international-airport-52a3.html",
  "pickupLocationId": "52A3",
  "pickupLocationName": "San Antonio International Airport",
  "pickupAirportCode": "SAT",
  "pickupLocationType": "airport",
  "pickupAddress": "9559 Airport Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78216",
  "pickupCity": "San Antonio",
  "pickupState": "TX",
  "pickupCountry": "US",
  "pickupLatitude": 29.5259,
  "pickupLongitude": -98.4731,
  "pickupTimeZone": "America/Chicago",
  "returnLocationId": "52A3",
  "returnLocationName": "San Antonio International Airport",
  "isOneWay": false,
  "pickupDateTime": "2026-11-06T10:00",
  "returnDateTime": "2026-11-09T10:00",
  "driverAge": 30,
  "renterCountry": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T17:57:54.806Z"
}

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, Cursor or another MCP client and this actor appears as a tool: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=RecordsData/alamo-scraper. Example prompt: "Compare Alamo SUV prices at LAX for the first week of December for a 28 year old driver."

Run it from code

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('RecordsData/alamo-scraper').call({
  mode: 'offers',
  pickupLocations: ['LAX'],
  pickupDate: '2026-12-05',
  rentalDays: 7,
  vehicleCategories: ['SUVs'],
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((o) => `${o.vehicleClass}: ${o.pricePerDay} ${o.currency} per day`));

Is it legal to scrape Alamo? Limits and responsible use

The actor reads public pages and the public booking quote service of alamo.com. It does not log in, solve captchas or use a browser. It makes one request at a time at a gentle pace, and quotes at least 10 seconds apart. Alamo's terms of use restrict robots and automated access without written consent, so review them before commercial use, and keep your own use proportionate. Rows contain no data about renters or drivers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What can I scrape from Alamo?

Rental quotes per car class for a branch and dates, the Alamo branch directory, and the vehicle class catalog. Pick the kind with What to collect.

Do I need a proxy, a login or an API key?

No. The actor makes plain HTTP requests and needs no proxy, browser or Alamo account. You only need an Apify account, and the free plan returns up to 10 items per run.

Is the price the same as on alamo.com?

It is the quote Alamo returns for the same branch, dates, times and driver age: the pay-later total with taxes and fees, plus the prepay total. It is an estimate for those dates, not a booking, and Alamo can change prices at any moment. Rates differ by driver age, so set Driver age to the age you want to compare.

Which fees and extras are not included?

Itemised fee lines, insurance products, equipment such as child seats, and fuel prices are not part of the output. The actor reports one taxesAndFees amount, the total minus the base rates. For drivers under 25 it includes the young renter surcharge.

How do I find a branch?

Use an airport code such as SAT, a branch id such as 52A3, a city such as Austin, TX, or a branch page address. For branches outside the United States set Country of the locations, for example GB for LHR. Run Locations mode to list the branches of a state or country.

Why do I get fewer classes than I expected?

Alamo only quotes the classes a branch has for the dates. Available offers only removes classes marked as sold out, and your category, transmission, fuel, seats and price filters remove more. Turn them off to see the full quote.

How do one-way rentals work?

Put a different branch in Return location. Every row then has isOneWay true and the price includes any one-way charge Alamo applies.

Can I get prices in my own currency?

Rows carry the branch currency in currency. When the driver's country of residence uses another currency, the renter view appears in renterCurrency, totalPriceRenterCurrency and pricePerDayRenterCurrency.

What happens when the search finds nothing or the input is wrong?

A search with no hits, an unknown branch, a closed pickup time or a wrong input ends as succeeded with one free error row that explains the problem. Error rows are never charged.

How many rental offers can I collect in one run?

Offers are a low-volume job. One quote returns every car class of one branch for one date range, usually 13 to 44 rows, so one quote is many rows. A run with a handful of branches is the normal use. The actor waits at least 10 seconds between two quotes, so 10 branches take a few minutes. Keep Branches per city and the number of searches small, and use the Locations and Vehicle classes kinds for large lists.

Why did a run stop early or end with "The site could not be read"?

Alamo limits quote volume per time window. When quotes come in a quick burst, its booking service refuses them for a while and the limit eases after a few minutes. The actor waits at least 10 seconds between quotes, retries a refused quote once after 30 to 60 seconds, and stops when two branches in a row are refused. The run then ends early and says so in its message. If nothing was delivered the run is marked failed and nothing is charged. Rows already delivered stay in the dataset. Wait a few minutes, then run again with fewer branches. Locations and vehicle classes are not affected. The plain message "The site could not be read" appears for other failures, such as the site being down.

Support

Questions, a missing field or a feature request: contact.punkrecordsdata@gmail.com. Reviews on the actor page help other people find it.

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with Alamo Rent A Car or Enterprise Holdings.