Vrbo Scraper - Vacation Rental Prices & Search

Vrbo Scraper by ScraperCompany collects vacation-rental pricing from Vrbo. Quote prices a rental you already know for your dates and returns the nightly rate, the total with mandatory fees, the payment model (for example pay later with deposit) and every offer the listing has. Search lists rentals for a destination and stay with their prices and property ids, 50 per page; set Pages per destination to collect up to 1,000. Use it for short-term-rental market analysis and competitor price tracking. Pricing is pay-per-event: $0.018 per quote and $0.003 per search page; failed requests are not charged.

Proxies, retries and anti-bot handling are built in, so you don't need your own proxies or an API key. Start a run, get structured JSON.

What can this Vrbo scraper do?

• Quote any rental for a stay: nightly rate, total with fees, payment model, every offer.
• Search a destination for rentals with nightly and total prices: 50 per page, page through up to 1,000.
• Up to 16 guests and 28 nights; reports when a stay cannot be booked.
• Accepts the id from a Vrbo URL (via a custom request) and resolves it automatically.

Modes

Mode	What it returns	Price per request
rates	Price of one rental for a stay: nightly, total, fees, payment model	$0.018
search	Rentals for a destination and stay, with prices and property ids: 50 per page, paging to 1,000	$0.003

Use cases for Vrbo data

• Short-term-rental investors: Price comparable homes in a market for peak and off-peak dates before you buy.
• Property managers: Watch what competing Vrbo listings charge for the same weekend and adjust your own rates.
• Market analysts: Collect nightly rates and totals with fees for a whole destination to study seasonality.
• Travel apps: Show live Vrbo prices next to hotel and Airbnb results.

What Vrbo data can you extract?

Field	Description
property.price_per_night / nightly_text	Nightly rate
property.total / total_text	Total for the stay
property.fees_included / payment_model	Whether fees are included and how payment works
offers[]	Every offer: total, nightly, member-only, payment model
listings[].name / url / property_id	Search results (Search mode)
listings[].nightly / total	Prices per search result
summary.matched_properties	How many rentals match the search

Every dataset item also carries input (the exact request that was sent), request_id (quote it to support), billed and scraped_at.

How to scrape Vrbo rental prices

1. Open Vrbo Scraper in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Enter Vrbo property ids and dates, or switch to Search a destination and type a place.
3. Adjust the options if needed. Dates accept an exact date (2026-12-01) or a relative one (30 days from today), so saved tasks and schedules never go stale.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or fetch them with the Apify API.

Input example

This is the example the Console input form opens with. Over the API, a task or a schedule nothing is filled in for you: give propertyIds (rates), destinations (search) or customRequests, or the run stops with "Nothing to do" and charges nothing.

{
  "mode": "rates",
  "propertyIds": [
    "122942416"
  ],
  "check_in": "45 days",
  "nights": 3,
  "destinations": [
    "South Lake Tahoe, California"
  ],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "includeErrors": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRetries": 2
}

Output example

One dataset item per request (trimmed here; real items contain every field the API returns):

{
  "mode": "rates",
  "endpoint": "/v1/ota/vrbo",
  "input": {
    "property_id": "122942416",
    "check_in": "2026-11-15",
    "nights": 3
  },
  "meta": {
    "collection_id": "ratecol_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
    "elapsed_s": 0.44,
    "listing_resolved": false,
    "nights": 3,
    "observed_at": "2026-08-07T01:23:45.678Z",
    "source": "vrbo"
  },
  "offers": [
    {
      "business_model": "HOTEL_COLLECT",
      "currency": "USD",
      "fees_included": true,
      "hotel_collect": true,
      "inventory_type": "VRBO",
      "member_only": false,
      "messages": [
        "Reserve now, pay deposit",
        "Your dates are available"
      ],
      "nightly": 462,
      "nightly_text": "$462",
      "payment_model": "PAY_LATER_WITH_DEPOSIT",
      "plan_id": "0000f7528ddb0787463c9be9506a3b5eceb0",
      "provenance": {
        "collection_id": "ratecol_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
        "derivation": "upstream",
        "observation_id": "rateobs_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
        "observed_at": "2026-08-07T01:23:45.678Z",
        "price_basis": "stay_total_fees_included",
        "requested_currency": "USD",
        "requested_market": "US",
        "returned_currency": "USD",
        "schema_version": 1,
        "source": "vrbo",
        "source_kind": "ota_rate_plan",
        "source_property_id": "122942416",
        "upstream_rate_id": "0000f7528ddb0787463c9be9506a3b5eceb0"
      },
      "room_type_id": "122942416",
      "total": 1386,
      "total_text": "$1,386 for 3 nights"
    }
  ],
  "property": {
    "availability": "available",
    "available": true,
    "basis": "cheapest_offer",
    "currency": "USD",
    "currency_verified": true,
    "fees_included": true,
    "is_soldout": false,
    "nightly_text": "$462",
    "payment_model": "PAY_LATER_WITH_DEPOSIT",
    "price_per_night": 462,
    "property_id": "122942416",
    "provenance": {
      "collection_id": "ratecol_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
      "derivation": "upstream",
      "observation_id": "rateobs_0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
      "observed_at": "2026-08-07T01:23:45.678Z",
      "price_basis": "stay_headline",
      "requested_currency": "USD",
      "requested_market": "US",
      "returned_currency": "USD",
      "schema_version": 1,
      "source": "vrbo",
      "source_kind": "ota_offer",
      "source_property_id": "122942416",
      "upstream_rate_id": null
    },
    "total": 1386,
    "total_text": "$1,386 for 3 nights"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "adults": 2,
    "check_in_date": "2026-11-17",
    "check_out_date": "2026-11-20",
    "currency": "USD",
    "engine": "vrbo_property",
    "market": "US",
    "property_id": "122942416"
  },
  "request_id": "req_3f9c0d6e2b8a4c1f9e7d5b3a1c0e8f6d",
  "billed": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-01T14:03:27.512Z"
}

A request that fails is saved with an error message instead (turn off Include failed requests to skip those). Failed requests are never charged.

How much does it cost to scrape Vrbo rental prices?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay for successful API requests, not for compute time.

Event	Charged when	Price	Per 1,000
rates-request	One vacation rental priced for one stay: every offer with nightly price, total, fees and payment terms.	$0.018	$18.00
search-request	One page of a Vrbo destination search for a stay (up to 50 listings with prices). Each further page is another event.	$0.003	$3.00

These prices apply from November 5, 2026, after Apify's 14-day notice of a price change; until then runs are charged the previous prices shown on the Pricing tab.

From November 5, 2026, paid Apify plans pay less: rates-request up to 13% off (Bronze 5%, more on higher plans). The Pricing tab shows the price on your plan.

For example, 1,000 requests in the default mode cost $18.00.

• Failed requests (errors, invalid input, blocked upstream after retries) are free.
• Requests where the source returns nothing at all (no results, nothing priced) are saved but not charged.
• Set Maximum cost per run when you start a run and the Actor stops cleanly before going over it.

FAQ

Do I need proxies or an API key?

No. Proxy rotation, retries and anti-bot handling are built in, and the Actor is ready to run as is. You only pay the per-event prices above.

Which id do I use?

The Quote mode takes the numeric property_id returned by Search. If you only have a Vrbo URL like vrbo.com/20218736ha, send a custom request with "listing_id": "20218736ha"; it is resolved for you.

Why does a stay come back unavailable?

Many rentals have minimum stays or are booked. The response says why when Vrbo does (and that answer is still charged, because it is real availability data).

Is it legal to scrape Vrbo rental prices?

The Actor collects publicly available information that anyone can see without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the results: respect the source site's terms, copyright and privacy law (such as GDPR) and do not collect personal data without a lawful basis. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

What happens when a request is blocked or rate-limited?

Rate limits (HTTP 429) and temporary errors (5xx) are retried automatically with exponential backoff, respecting Retry-After. If a request still fails it is saved with the error message and not charged, and the rest of the batch keeps going. A run only fails when every request failed.

Why did a request return an error?

Read the error field: validation problems (for example a malformed date or an unknown id) are reported exactly as the API sees them. Fix the input and run again; failed requests cost nothing.

How many requests can I run at once?

Any number per run. The Actor sends up to 3 requests in parallel by default (change it under Run options); larger batches simply take longer.

Use it from your code

Call the Actor from any language through the Apify API. With the JavaScript client (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('scrapercompany/vrbo-rates-scraper').call({
    "mode": "rates",
    "propertyIds": [
        "122942416"
    ],
    "check_in": "45 days"
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

With Python (pip install apify-client):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("scrapercompany/vrbo-rates-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "rates",
    "propertyIds": ["122942416"],
    "check_in": "45 days",
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

You can also schedule runs, chain them with webhooks, or connect them to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets and other integrations from the Integrations tab.

Related scrapers

• Airbnb Scraper: the same market on Airbnb, with prices for your dates
• Expedia Scraper: hotel prices from Vrbo's sister site

Support

Questions, a field you need, or a site that stopped working? Open an issue on the Issues tab. Include the request_id from the dataset item so we can trace the request.