RentalCars Scraper

Scrape and compare car rental prices from RentalCars.com, the world's largest car rental comparison platform (owned by Booking.com). Extract offers from Hertz, Avis, Europcar, Sixt, Enterprise, Budget, and dozens more suppliers in one run. No login or cookies required.

Why use this actor?

Planning a trip and want the best car rental deal? This actor extracts all available offers from a RentalCars.com search, giving you structured data you can sort, filter, and analyze. Perfect for price monitoring, travel agencies comparing supplier rates, or researchers tracking rental car pricing trends across locations and seasons.

How it works

1. Go to rentalcars.com in your browser
2. Enter your pickup location, dates, times, and driver age
3. Click "Search" and wait for results to load
4. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar
5. Paste it into this actor's searchUrl input field

The actor navigates to your search results page using a real browser (Playwright) and extracts all car rental offers from the page.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	String	Yes	Your RentalCars.com search results URL. Configure your search on the site, then copy the URL.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum number of offers to return (default: 100, max: 500)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Residential proxies strongly recommended due to AWS WAF protection.

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
supplier	String	"Hertz"
carName	String	"Volkswagen Golf"
carType	String	"Compact"
transmission	String	"Automatic"
seats	Number	5
doors	Number	4
bags	Number	2
totalPrice	Number	287.50
dailyPrice	Number	41.07
currency	String	"EUR"
fuelPolicy	String	"Full to Full"
mileagePolicy	String	"Unlimited"
rating	Number	8.2
reviewCount	Number	1543
imageUrl	String	Car image URL
url	String	Search results URL
scrapedAt	String	"2026-04-07T14:30:00.000Z"

Example output

{
    "supplier": "Europcar",
    "carName": "Volkswagen Golf",
    "carType": "Compact",
    "transmission": "Manual",
    "seats": 5,
    "doors": 4,
    "bags": 2,
    "totalPrice": 287.50,
    "dailyPrice": 41.07,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "fuelPolicy": "Full to Full",
    "mileagePolicy": "Unlimited",
    "rating": 7.8,
    "reviewCount": 2341,
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn.rcstatic.com/images/car_images/web/europcar/golf_lrg.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.rentalcars.com/search-results?...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T14:30:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Price comparison — Compare rental prices across all suppliers for a given location and date range
• Price monitoring — Schedule daily runs to track pricing trends and find the cheapest booking window
• Travel agencies — Aggregate rental car data across destinations for client recommendations
• Market research — Analyze supplier pricing strategies, availability patterns, and seasonal trends
• Fleet analysis — Track which car models are available at specific airports and cities

Integrations

This actor can be combined with Apify's built-in integrations to:

• Schedule runs to monitor prices daily or weekly
• Export to Google Sheets for easy analysis and sharing
• Send webhook notifications when prices drop below a threshold
• Connect to Zapier/Make for custom automation workflows
• Use the API to integrate car rental data into your applications

Cost estimate

This actor uses approximately 0.5-1 compute units per run (one search results page). At standard Apify pricing, that's roughly $0.25-0.50 per search.

Proxy requirements

RentalCars.com uses AWS WAF anti-bot protection. Residential proxies are strongly recommended for reliable results. Without proxies, requests may be blocked.

Limitations

• Results are extracted from a single search results page (the URL you provide)
• The actor does not fill in the search form — you must provide a pre-configured search URL
• Anti-bot protection may occasionally block requests even with residential proxies
• Data is scraped from the public website and may change without notice
• Some fields may not be available for all car offers depending on the page layout