VRBO Scraper — House Rules, Safety & Property Details

Give it VRBO property URLs and get back one clean record per property: capacity, every amenity, house rules including the minimum renter age, safety-device disclosures, the Premier Host badge, the rating on both a 10- and a 5-point scale, nearby landmarks with walk/drive minutes, the geographic breadcrumb chain, and coordinates. No browser.

What this Actor does — and doesn't

It looks up properties you already know. You supply property URLs or ids; it returns their details.

It does not:

• Discover properties. There is no destination or market search. You can't hand it "Destin, FL" and get every rental there — bring your own list of URLs.
• Return prices or availability. No nightly rates, no calendar, no quotes.
• Return individual reviews. You get the rating and the review count, not the review text.
• Return a room-by-room bed layout, similar properties, or VRBO's FAQ. VRBO loads those in the browser from a bot-protected endpoint that this Actor doesn't touch. For beds you get bedSummaryFromDescription instead: the lines of the host's own description that mention beds. It's host prose, not structured data.

If you need any of those, this isn't the right tool.

What you get

Field	Notes
houseRules	checkIn, checkOut, minimumAge (e.g. 25), children, events, pets, smoking, plus every rule line verbatim in all.
safetyDisclosures	Each safety device and what the host disclosed: {item: "Smoke detector", status: "not_reported", present: null}. not_reported means the host hasn't said either way. present: false means the host has said there is none. Both are real screening signals, and VRBO words them so they're easy to miss.
host.isPremierHost	VRBO's equivalent of Airbnb's Superhost, plus the host name (often a management company) and profile image.
rating10 and rating5Normalised	VRBO rates out of 10. Both are provided so you never compare a VRBO 9.6 with an Airbnb 4.8 as if they were the same scale.
location.nearby	Named landmarks, transport and restaurants with minutes and mode: {name: "Miramar Beach", type: "landmark", minutes: 1, mode: "walk"}.
location	Latitude/longitude, city, county, state, country, and the full breadcrumb chain, e.g. United States of America → Florida → Okaloosa County → Destin.
importantInfo	VRBO's "You need to know" notes: deposits, ID at check-in, party bans.
bedSummaryFromDescription	Bed-related lines from the host's description, e.g. "Bed Sizes: Master - King, Second - Queen, Third - Twin Bunks, Living Area - Queen Sleeper Sofa". Only as good as what the host wrote.
amenities, topAmenities	Every amenity with its VRBO group, plus VRBO's "Popular amenities" shortlist.
bedrooms, baths, personCapacity, propertyType	From VRBO's overview. The raw labels are in overviewItems: VRBO caps some bathroom counts at "3+", which reads as 3.
description, highlights, photos	Full description as plain text, VRBO's highlights, and every gallery photo with the host's caption.
id, internalId	The URL id (1043021) and VRBO's internal id (21699457), which differ.

Field names match our Airbnb Scraper wherever the concept is the same (personCapacity, bedrooms, baths, amenities, photos, location.latitude), and every record carries platform: "vrbo". That makes the two datasets easy to combine. Use rating5Normalised, not rating10, when you do.

Input

• Property URLs: https://www.vrbo.com/1043021, www.vrbo.com/3959326ha, or a bare 1043021. Duplicates are removed. Anything after ? in a URL is ignored.
• Max listings: a hard cap on properties scraped and billed.
• Exclude personal data: drops the host's name and photo and keeps only the Premier Host flag.

Output

One row per property. Example (abridged):

{
  "platform": "vrbo",
  "id": "1043021",
  "internalId": "21699457",
  "title": "Beachfront Gulf View Condo-Pool-Season Beach Serv.",
  "propertyType": "Condo",
  "personCapacity": 8, "bedrooms": 3, "baths": 2,
  "rating10": 9.6, "rating5Normalised": 4.8, "reviewCount": 107, "ratingLabel": "Exceptional",
  "host": { "name": "Glass Casa Vacation Rentals", "isPremierHost": true },
  "houseRules": { "checkIn": "4:00 PM", "checkOut": "10:00 AM", "minimumAge": 25,
                  "pets": "No pets allowed", "events": "No events allowed", "smoking": "Smoking is not permitted" },
  "safetyDisclosures": [ { "item": "Carbon monoxide detector", "status": "not_reported", "present": null },
                         { "item": "Smoke detector", "status": "not_reported", "present": null } ],
  "bedSummaryFromDescription": [ "Bed Sizes: Master - King, Second - Queen, Third - Twin Bunks, Living Area - Queen Sleeper Sofa" ],
  "location": { "latitude": 30.38233, "longitude": -86.42785, "city": "Destin", "county": "Okaloosa County",
                "state": "Florida", "country": "United States of America",
                "nearby": [ { "name": "Miramar Beach", "type": "landmark", "minutes": 1, "mode": "walk" },
                            { "name": "Northwest Florida Regional Airport (VPS)", "type": "transport", "minutes": 29, "mode": "drive" } ] },
  "amenityCount": 51, "photoCount": 39
}

Pricing and billing

$2.00 per 1,000 properties. One stored property is one charge.

A property that doesn't exist (VRBO quietly redirects dead ids to a search page or the homepage) or that returns no content is never stored, so it's never billed. A list of dead ids costs $0.00 in result charges.

Notes

• Ratings are out of 10. rating10 is VRBO's own number. rating5Normalised is that number divided by 2. Both are null when a property has no reviews.
• Personal data. Host names and photos can be personal data under GDPR/CCPA when the host is an individual. Turn on Exclude personal data to drop them.
• Proxy. VRBO rate-limits by IP. By default each property is fetched through Apify's datacenter proxy on a fresh session, and only a request that gets blocked is retried through residential. You can pick any proxy yourself or turn the fallback off.

How it works, and responsible use

Each property page is fetched once over plain HTTP, and the record is read from data VRBO embeds in that page. There's no browser and no login.

VRBO (Expedia Group) prohibits scraping in its Terms of Service, as most sites do; read them and decide for yourself. This Actor:

• requests only public property pages (/{id}), which VRBO's robots.txt does not disallow
• never requests search results (/search?), dated-availability URLs (chkin=/chkout=), or any other path robots.txt disallows
• never tries to get around VRBO's bot protection. Parts of the site guarded by it are simply out of scope, which is why the list above is what it is.
• identifies as an ordinary browser. It never impersonates a search engine or AI crawler.

Requests are paced and retried politely.